The Gift of Hope

By on July 1, 2009 in Uncategorized

My husband came home last week and told me he thought we needed to get out of the house on a short vacation.  I have been incarcerated since I was hit by the car six  weeks ago. With my current disabilities it is impossible to go far.  Jim surprised me with plans for a trip to an Inn on the Atlantic Ocean.  Everything changed in the moment he told me of the vacation plans.  He planted the seeds of hope in that moment.  Just knowing we are going somewhere has created pure joy.  Some of the advice I give people is to create a folder and write your plan or dreams down so they become real and you create hope.  Now I really know how true my advice is.  Each day I open the vacation folder and when I see the Inn reservations, the map and the Fodor’s guide, I smile from ear to ear. Hope creates health, happiness and beautiful optimism.  
 

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Dr. Kathleen Hall, internationally recognized stress and work-life balance expert, is the founder and CEO of The Stress Institute®, The Mindful Living Network® and Alter Your Life®. Dr. Hall’s life’s work is to teach others how to reduce stress by learning how to live a sustainable, balanced life of true happiness through mindful living. Combining research based medical models with universal spiritual practices, she has developed a life-altering stress reduction and lifestyle program she calls, “Where Science Meets the Soul®.”

During times of stress and crisis, the international television and print media consistently seek the authoritative knowledge, information and direction of Dr. Kathleen Hall. Dr. Hall's advice has been featured by all the major national media including NBC's The Today Show, Oprah & Friends, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Paula Zahn Now, CNN Headline News, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN International, FOX, ESPN.com, Good Morning America Radio, Martha Stewart Radio, Fortune, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Money Magazine, Business Week, Parents, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, Body + Soul, and Woman’s Day.

Dr. Hall is the Author of A Life in Balance: Nourishing the Four Roots of True Happiness (AMACOM, January 2006) and Alter Your Life: Overbooked? Overworked? Overwhelmed? (Oak Haven, April 2005) and a new book in Fall 2009.

Dr. Hall is a contributing writer for PINK Magazine. She is also the Global Ambassador for the Unilever/Knorr Soup Campaign - Eat Soup, Live Healthy; World thought leader to Fortune 500 Corporations; Electronic Arts spokesperson (Pogo.com); Darden Restaurant spokesperson, Tempur-Pedic spokesperson. Martha Stewart Publications coined her the "Stress Queen."

Dr. Hall earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Jacksonville State University, a Masters of Divinity from Emory University and a Doctorate in Spirituality from Columbia Theological Seminary. Her diverse background includes study with medical pioneer’s Dr. Dean Ornish of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and Dr. Herbert Benson at the Harvard Mind/Body Institute as well as illustrious Nobel Peace Prize recipients including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu and President Jimmy Carter. 

She lives on her horse farm where her family rescues animals.  She loves her flower and vegetable gardens and enjoys canning her foods.

More information about Dr. Kathleen Hall can be found at www.drkathleenhall.com,  www.stressinstitute.com , and www.mindfullivingnetwork.

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