Congratulations! You are getting married.

You are excited and happily looking forward to your magical moment when you say, “I do” and are wrapped in a loving embrace of affection. The wedding is beautiful and each participant is enjoying their role and truly excited to be a part of your special day.

There is a lot of planning, patience, and people needed to make this happen. Many who have walked down the aisle can relate to feelings of being overwhelmed, stressed, not having enough time, and worried about offending relatives and guests. Brides preparing for this
wonderful role can fall into the same cycle. However, you can not only get “through this” but genuinely enjoy the process and the people and stay present in each moment.

Trying not to hurt anyone’s feelings, finding time to take care of all the special details, and maintaining relationships with your spouse to be and extended family members sounds like a lot. Of course, through all of this, you...

Unleash the Power of Neuroscience for Sky-High Self-Worth

You know that warm, fuzzy feeling of hope and positivity?

 
That's a special part of your brain doing its magic. Now, imagine if that part was super-charged and totally in sync with how you think about yourself! 

Want to boost your self-worth and self-esteem? Time to make some new connections in your brain!

 
And guess what? The secret's all about kicking inflammation to the curb. 
 

But how, you ask? 

Welcome to the world of the BolsterUp PEACE project! 

It's mind-blowing how you can literally build your own self-worth right into your brain's structure just by practicing our 4 Pillars of Well-being. Click Here for Information 

 
Let's get real, we all crave that sweet validation, don't we?

 
That longing to be seen, accepted, and loved right where we are most vulnerable is deeply human.

 
And let's not forget, we've all got a pretty hefty need for approval and attachment,...

Happy New Year! 

Are you ready to make New Year's resolutions that actually stick? I've pinpointed the top 3 reasons why most resolutions fail, and I've got the solutions you need to succeed. You're going to want to stick around till the end because I've got a free gift that you won't want to miss.

Reason #1: Lack of Accountability

Accountability isn't about guilt-trips or blame games. It's about facing the facts, learning from mistakes, and finding better ways forward. Without it, resolutions fall flat. The good news? I'm here as your personal health and wellness coach, ready to be your positive accountability partner.

Reason #2: Poor Time Management
We all have the same 24 hours in a day, and mastering how to use them is a skill that can be learned. So let's toss out the repeated resolutions and focus on solutions, transforming this year into your year of effective time management.
 

Reason #3: Absence of a Proper Plan
A well-crafted plan lays out detailed steps,...

So I was saying there are four pillars of happy healthy living and they are thinking, breathing, nourishing, resting and repeating the process again. Your whole life is centered around this four practices. You may not be very mindful of them, you may not be mindful of what you’re thinking and your thoughts are definitely producing your reality and they are definitely part of the life that you’re living, could they not be?

So thinking and your thoughts can be deliberate in helping you to achieve more happiness and definitely assess in healthy living if not healing if our thoughts can produce healing. And then we have our breathing, all of us are breathing when we’re alive, correct? I never could quite understand that when I was younger I took a lot of aerobics classes and the instructor would often say don’t forget your breathing and I would be thinking. Of course I’m breathing right I wouldn’t be around in this aerobics room. But what she really...

The third secret that I wanna share with you may be the hardest. It may be the most difficult. However, if you’re doing number 1 smiling and if you start to focus more on complementing and contributing and condoning, this 3rd secret is not gonna be so daunting. What is the 3rd secret? It is actually focusing on the good aspects of every situation regardless of what you’re doing or what somebody else’s doing or what the circumstances are, it is focusing on the positive.

I’ll give you a little example. I was having a business meeting, one of my first businesses, and my son was about 1 year old. It was at this woman’s house, we were both young entrepreneurial moms and we were going over quite a bit of business. My son who was just a couple of feet away from both of us, we were at the kitchen table, went over to one of those huge drinking water jugs and started playing with the knob. Before we knew it, the floor was flooded, absolutely flooded. I remember...

The second tool that we’re gonna used that’s used by happy people, successful people, is they complement, they contribute and they condone. The opposite of that is most of us are walking around and aren’t necessarily as successful and happy as we’d like to be. Well most of us are criticizing, complaining and condemning. We’ve got to get those three things out of our life. That’s not going to help you achieve anything. It’s going to hurt you and it’s going to hurt the person that’s receiving it.

If we’re not criticizing, we’re complementing. We all can find something that we like about another person. My daughter was in elementary school and she came home crying, she didn’t want to go to school the next day and she loved going to school. She was sharing with me that she had a substitute teacher that was not the nicest substitute teacher and people had nicknames for her... that wasn’t nice either. So, I...

The next thing that I want you to do after you’ve gotten your smile on your face for the good part of the day is I want you to take your smile to somebody else. I encourage you to smile at a stranger and I say stranger because when you start flashing that gorgeous, attractive smile to your co-workers or neighbor they might get the wrong idea. So I suggest that you flash your beautiful smile that's on your face at a stranger. Don’t say anything. Just the next time you’re checking out at the grocery store just smile a beautiful smile. After you’ve bought your newspaper or bought your cup of coffee, just give them a beautiful smile. That’s it! Walk away you don’t have to say anything. But I say when you start smiling in the workplace or at home or any area of your life number 1 your mood’s going to improve so that’s beneficial. But the people around you, associating with you might think you’re up to something at first but they will...

Hi! I’m Stephanie McCannon. I help people all over the world to live happier, healthier and more meaningful lives. I’m going to share with you today in this little free video series the three most powerful tools used by the happiest, healthiest and most successful people on our planet. Talking about happiness, that’s what my client say they want more of. I’m a home and hospital teacher, my students say they want more happiness. I ask my parents what they want for their children and they want them to be happy, grow up to be happy.
Children say the same thing about parents; they just want their parents to be happy. So we all want to be happy. So how do we get happy? How does that happen? That’s what I want to talk to you today about and there are some very powerful tools that we can start using to increase our happiness, our joy, our satisfaction in life. So let’s start first with our little definition about happiness. What does happiness mean...

Hi! Welcome back to this free series of stress management. I’m Stephanie McCannon, I have for you today tip number 5 in this video series, it’s the final tip but it’s not my final word on stress management. There is so much we can do to decrease our anxiety and stress in our life so we can live a fulfilled, happy, healthy existence while we’re on this playground we call life.

I’m glad to help you navigate through health and wellness and there’s a couple of different ways that I can do that. I have written an e-book about more positive practices and healthy habits that you can start to implement to ensure that your body is capable of handling the stress that you give in to day to day living. You can also join my webinar of the month club; it’s a great way to get helpful tips and tricks and to interact with me every month on a different health and wellness topic. For example, this month it was stress. Next month is communication and the...

Hi! Welcome back to this free video series on stress management. I’m Stephanie McCannon. Today’s free tip is tip number 3 and it’s all about food, that’ right what we eat. Some of us eat to live and some of us live to eat but most of us fall right there on the middle. However, the connection most of us are not making is how important food is to stress management.

Now I told you before that about 80-90% of all diseases and illnesses are stress related. Now it’s widely known and carried throughout the medical community that food can be a healing source. What you eat does in fact affect your health. Unlike I was told over a decade ago, the doctors told me consistently that what I ate had no bearing on my autoimmune disorder. I highly disagree and I healed my body by managing my diet and other stress management techniques like the ones I’m sharing with you today. Food is highly important to stress management. Why is that? Well food does two major...