Episodes

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Sariel Beckenstein to talk about his newest book The Blessing Effect: Transform Your Life with Gratitude and Generosity, a journal designed to harness the profound impact of the Five Blessings: blessing yourself, blessing those who inspire or mentor you, counting your blessings, blessing those in need, and blessing those you do not really want to bless! By writing these blessings down daily, you embark on a journey of mindfulness and attrac...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Carrie Osgood, creative communications consultant, educator and author, to talk about storytelling and its traditional and alternative forms, highlighting the role of multisensory presentation of information. Being able to tell your story well and connect with your audience is more important than ever, even in the competitive world of business. Where do you start? With a vision, of course! Know how to create your vision through a simple yet...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Dr. Diane Mueller, your Libido Doctor, bestselling author and international speaker, to talk about battling chronic illnesses, particularly Lyme disease, and including pleasure in your healthcare. Join Dr. Diane as she dispels myths on living with your disease and those strange mystery symptoms, and invites you to look at holistic health. She discusses how Lyme disease or “the great mimicker” can be difficult to diagnose and treat through c...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Faust Ruggiero, the award-winning author of The Fix Yourself Empowerment Series, to talk about how to fix yourself, your relationships, your business and your world! It’s quite an intimidating order but everything starts with fixing the first: YOU. Are you out of balance? Faust helps identify those symptoms and shares ways to get your internal balance back through practical action steps and intentions. If you need to address more specific c...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Amanda Beausoleil, founder and Executive Director of Self-Injury Recovery & Awareness (SIRA), to talk about self-injury or nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). Discover eye-opening and empathetic insights on this often-considered taboo topic through Amanda’s own experience with it and her inspiring recovery. Self-injury knows no age and face, and we should all break away from the stigma of talking about it. Learn the signs and symptoms to look f...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Deb Shapiro, Voice Whisperer, founder of DEBx and the award-winning nonprofit, Amplify Voices, to talk about the power and healing behind discovering your authentic voice and telling your story. “If you have 8 minutes to change the world, what will you say?” It is not just about learning how to speak in front of an audience, it’s owning yourself and your experiences - the good, the bad and the ugly - to tell a clear message that transforms ...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Dr. Richard Laudon, retired behavioral optometrist, to talk about financial planning and finding proper balance with work and family. Rich inspires us to take charge of our finances despite the initial doubts, challenges and mistakes. Eventually we will gain wisdom and even meet the right person to help in our journey, just as what happened to him with Dr. Pat Pirotte. Together they now teach programs about financial independence in profess...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Dr. Dan Press, optometrist, owner and clinical director at Park Ridge Vision, to talk about the impact of vision to learning in preparation for August’s back to school and Vision and Learning Month. Are your children visually ready to learn? How well is your child doing at taking in the information through vision? Dr. Press discusses the importance of visual processing evaluation for kids - not just general/routine eye exams - and vision th...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Dr. Doug Major, neuro-optometrist and pub-lic health advocate, to talk about the eye-opening impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) treatments and vision care in the justice system. With 40 years worth of experience, Dr. Major provided insight on how focusing on eye and brain health made dramatic changes to literacy and recidivism in corrections, par-ticularly through the most controlled study in the nation for 13- to 19-year old youths. Th...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Jeff Golden, author, educator and activist, to talk about helping people reclaim the depth and beauty of themselves and the world to live more joyful and rich lives, rooted in the ideas explored in his book, Reclaiming the Sacred. Money can buy some happiness but what if you’re not happy within yourself? Jeff encourages all of us to embrace self-love, connection and community, open our eyes to miracles, nourish our well-being, and move away...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Wendy Rosen, educator and author, to talk about how the pandemic exposed deep fractures that have long been destabilizing one of the most essential bricks in the foundation of society - school. Imbalances and injustices have compromised teachers, children, families, and communities. We are at a watershed moment in our human story where schools have become inhumane, unsafe spaces that are putting pressure detrimental to children’s developmen...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Brad Yates, Change Facilitator and bestselling author, to talk about (and even demonstrate!) how to clear limiting beliefs through Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) or Tapping. Learn about the origins of Tapping and how it complements with other forms of therapy. Brad even provided an easy-to-follow Tapping session for everyone, even kids! Discover how to redirect your self-sabotage (described by Brad as misguided self-love) and tap into y...

It’s Vision Beyond Sight’s 100th episode, and it also coincided with Dr. Lynn Hellerstein’s birthday last week (of seven decades plus a few years)! Our beloved host celebrates this double milestone with a special message of reflection and immense gratitude. In this show, she fondly recalls her professional journey and how it elevated through the power of community and showing up for each other, and as such she gives thanks to all the people in her life including her family, partners, staff, ment...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Peter Shankman, entrepreneur, founder of HARO, bestselling author, podcaster and global keynote speaker on customer experience and workplace neurodiversity and ADHD, talks about the gift of neurodiversity to people and in businesses, the neurodivergent way of thinking, how neurodiverse employees can be productive for companies, and strategies for neuroinclusivity in the workplace. Peter talked about his own experiences as a kid with undiagn...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Nellie Harden, author, speaker and family life and leadership coach, to talk about changing the world one living room at a time by building worth, esteem and confidence in our children, especially daughters and young women. Nellie discussed tools that parents can use such as creating a vision, instilling discipline, showing vulnerability and scheduling your time. Elevate your parenting and build a strong foundation for your children now! Dr...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Ray Merenstein, idea hamster, speaker and nonprofit consultant who serves as Executive Director of NAMI Colorado (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and President of RDM Communications, to talk about how we can each of us better the communities in which we live, work, play and learn. He discussed providing free mental health access and resources to the youth, persons of color and even different sectors of the workforce through projects su...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Moshe Kornfeld, climate activist and founder and executive director of Colorado Jewish Climate Action (CJCA), to talk about approaching the climate crisis from an interfaith perspective and being inspired by our own religious and indigenous narratives, communities and traditions to take climate action. Moshe discusses CJCA’s role in the Jewish community, and how we can all be hopeful and helpful in our own ways to support the climate moveme...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Barb Jordan, founder of Always Bev Personal Safety workshop, educator and public speaker, to talk about Always Being Vigilant and protecting yourself from violence and sexual assault through awareness, intuition and preparation. Barb discussed crucial safety tips and warning signs in different real-life scenarios like lone walks and drives, going to bars, active shootings, and even in comfortable environments and with people you know. She a...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Jen Wilking, physical therapist turned yoga and meditation teacher who’s on a mission to help people feel at home in their lives, to talk about life pruning and identifying your core values through your heroes and villains. Jen discussed using your list of heroes and villains to establish what’s meaningful to you in order to take action and make a difference. She also talked about physical and digital decluttering, decluttering the mind and...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Dr. Guy Maytal, Chief of Integrated Care and Psychiatric Services of Forge Health, to talk about creating a new context for mental health and mental well-being upon getting diagnosed with a mental or severe illness, going through it, and after recovering from it. Dr. Maytal discussed the challenges of facing and reacting to our symptoms and illness, and the importance of empowering ourselves to communicate what we feel and go through. He al...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Renee A. Simon, licensed Dietitian-Nutritionist, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Reiki Master, and owner of Total Wellness Nutrition LLC, to talk about “precision nutrition” or personalized/specialized nutrition, the right diet, the gut and brain connection, factors that affect longevity, and helpful tests and strategies for healing like Reiki and Bioresonance Testing. Renee even provided a short “soft belly” breathing exercise, and a 25% d...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Julie Skolnick, M.A., J.D., author and founder of With Understanding Comes Calm LLC, to talk about 2e (twice-exceptional) children and adults, how to identify gifted learners and their transitions and struggles in the current school system, and how her book Gifted and Distractible provides strategies to help teachers and parents (including 2e parents) to understand, support, advocate and bring out the best in neurodiverse students. Dr. Lynn...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Melanie Gruenwald, Executive Director of Kabbalah Experience, to talk about Kabbalah and its mystical and philosophical study of parallels and holding opposites: the seen and unseen, finding light in darkness and finite within the infinite, the different masks of our identities, and crossing the borders of humanity. Melanie teaches how Kabbalah is not about religion, but the spiritual pursuit of living with greater awareness and connection ...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Dr. Janet Powell, occupational therapist, retired faculty, and author, to talk about how vision care impacts occupational therapy and rehabilitation, the advantages of interdisciplinary collaborations, and effectively fostering these collaborations through share and show. Dr. Powell provides a layman’s definition on occupational therapy, and shares her personal experiences and discovery on how crucial eye health is to acquired brain injury ...