Welcome to the Thrive! Community. New and Old Members are welcome to introduce themselves in the comments below! It is WONDERFUL to have you here. We are here to live a life of health and vitality. If you’re a Health and Wellness Professional, or a Business Coach who can help our amazing H&W Pros, Message me to set up a Masterclass and send me your bio/pic/links so i can add you to the Wellness Directory! Topics that we have been exploring... -optimal nutrition for energy, health, and breast cancer prevention -intermittent fasting for healing and metabolic flexibility, -how to create a Thriving Gut -healing the nervous system, -developing emotional resilience and rewiring the brain for joy, -learning how to focus better and eat more frogs to attain our goals in any area of life. We know that optimal health and fitness help us to show up in a bigger, bolder way in our business. We also know that doing well in our business helps us to be our healthiest, fittest selves. Both of these aspects of our lives feed into each other. We support each other in being the healthiest, fittest, most vibrant, abundant, wealthy version of ourselves. We are committed to overcoming addictive behaviors like stress eating, excessive scrolling, overworking, and other behaviors that derail us and hold us back. You will not find long lists of what to do and what not to do in here. What you will find are tools, useful information, meditations, live meetings, and conversations to support you as you craft your own path to health, wellness, vitality, and abundance.

What are you doing today, or this weekend, to relax and focus on self care? Share it in the comments below. For bonus points, add a picture, so we can share the experience with you. I'll share some peaceful videos of our animals later in the day. Spending time with animals is often relaxing for me. Except for when the drakes or male guineas are fighting. But, I digress. Below is a guided relaxation I created a few months back. I've posted the video in here before, but we have lots of new members, so I wanted to give it to you again. Special welcome to our new members, like @Katja Nasr , @Nancy Wicks , @Matt Burge , @Andrea Lecos , @Brigitte Mars , @Karisa Bitner , @Steven Bornstein , @Sarah Emami , @Lisa David Olson . Welcome all!! If you know someone who can use some relaxation, and/or a reminder that it's ok to feel good, please share this video with them! https://youtu.be/yRI41vlEteE

Since one of the goals of this community is to expand the reach of the health and wellness professionals in here...to help us all upgrade our Health and Thrive.. And since we are building an awesome Health and Wellness Directory with the Bios of everyone who wants to be included, that you can all check out in the Classroom... I thought it might make sense to make this group public so it can be found and searched on various search platforms. The Wellness Directory includes many of the Movement Coaches, Holistic Doctors and Healers, Business and Life Coaches that are part of this community. I've uploaded bios that I had, including @Becca Turner , @Ben Sherry , @Angela Johnson , @Éva Raposa , @Mary Rose , @Abigail Seaver , @Matt Burge , @Dayana Melian , @Vincenzo Fanfarillo , @Gwendolynn Diaz , @Joy Cook , @Ryan Peters , @Nancy Candea , @Kate Galli , @Victoria Gallagher , @Joshua Haag , @Meghann McCormick , @Damiana Corca , @Tara Seren , and more!! Check out your bio...if you want something changed, you can either let me know or I can make you Admin for the day and you can change it yourself. If you have any issues with going public, or don't like it, please message me. It can be changed very easily. If you haven't yet shared your Bio yet, you can do that very easily by creating a new post in the My Directory Listing Category.

We have a winner! @Jenny Rader-Bakos had the most likes and comments, with 12 likes and 22 comments. @Jenny Rader-Bakos explained her amazing health and blood sugar transformation in From Sick and Tired to Rooted and Wild Jenny, you get to be an honorary VIP Thrive member until the end of June! This means, you can come to ALL the live meetings on the calendar. You also get to be an Admin in Thrive, so everyone can see when you make a post. You can also send out emails every 72 hours, and lead Masterclasses in here, that provide value and share your offerings. You can put Master classes on the calendar, just like you would in your own community. So you can cross post your classes in multiple communities, if you'd like :) And you get a one-on-one Thrive Breakthrough session to go over any area of your life and work on transforming it. The only rule is that you provide VALUE for others with your posts and Master classes. If you have any questions, lemme know. Way to go, everyone who participated in Stories of Transformation!! I'll keep the category up for a few weeks so we can continue to share Stories of Transformation. I'd love to hear all of your stories of transformation! YOU can learn more about and upgrade to PREMIUM or VIP ANY TIME, by going here... www.skool.com/releasetheweight/plans Here are all the stories again... @Joshua Haag's wrote the pioneer Story of Transformation, sharing how dedication and showing up day to day helped him drop excess weight and step into greater fitness. @Om Patel talked about becoming leaner and stronger in his Transformation Story!.

I had the privilege of being a parent chaperone on my son’s school field trip to Catalina Island, off the coast of California. And for some reason, I couldn’t connect to Skool at all during my time there. I missed my community on Skool. And yet, REAL LIFE experiences are often under-rated and under-explored in our super techy world. If you have a chance to fast from any kind of screens and social media for a week or more, I would highly recommend it! We hiked daily, walked on the beach, kayaked for hours, some of us got sun burned, we snorkelled in super cold water day and night, saw lots of bright orange garibaldi fish, touched sea anemones and urchins, learned about marine life, ate a lot of healthy food, kissed a sea cucumber, saw a Buffalo wander into camp and drink our dirty boot water, played games, rock climbed, and more. I was grateful to get to know some of my son’s classmates and spend time with him in this special environment. Didn’t get much privacy, as I was often accompanied by teenagers everywhere I went. But, I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything. It was truly awesome to get off screens completely, step out of my comfort zone, embrace cold water (which I typically avoid!), and support a bunch of sixth graders as they tried new things and explored a whole different world. Some of the kids we were with had never flown in an airplane or been to an airport. Others had never seen the ocean. It was truly epic. Hope you had a great week too last week, would love to hear about it in the comments! Have you stayed off of screens and/or social media for multiple days recently? Would you consider it? Why or why not?