Dr. Lisa Belisle

Health/Wealth (#21)

Our physical "good fortune" is often inextricably linked to our financial well-being - and both can impact our relationship with others.

Our guests include

• Tom Shepard of Shepard Financial and
• Susan Conley, author of The Foremost Good Fortune.

The Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast airs weekly at 11 am on WLOB radio 1310 AM (Portland)/streaming online. Listen to the Podcast or click on the link below:

HealthWealth: Dr. Lisa # 21

This week our "Wellness Innovations" segment, sponsored by the University of New England, featured The Epidemic of Financial Anxiety: What You Can Do, from Psychology Today.

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Our featured guest was Tom Shepard of Shepard Financial. For 17 years Tom has helped people get to know themselves through a deeper relationship and understanding of their values by teaching and working with them and their money. First teaching students powerful math about financial choices, habits and addictions, then through writing about age appropriate allowance and created currency and finally as an observer and chronicler of the effects of wealth on health. Tom connects the evolution of money past, present and future with a spiritual understanding of value that makes life come alive. He takes us out of an approach based on perpetual growth and into a world view that puts the focus back on money as a tool that promotes lifelong development for each of us, our families, communities, country and the world. In his work he visually respresents the stages of money maturity and stresses that we grow, develop, die and evolve several times in life. Money honestly earned through the pursuit of passion allows us to make sacrifices for our friends and families that brings beauty into the world and ships it clear around the globe making it possible to have heaven here on earth. The trick is to see it as a currency of the power of love instead of the love of power.

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Our Maine Magazine Minute features Susan Conley. Susan is the author of The Foremost Good Fortune, an O, The Oprah Magazine Top Ten Pick and a Slate Magazine “Book of the Week.” Excerpted in The New York Times Magazine, The Daily Beast, and Middlebury Magazine, the memoir has received kind reviews in newspapers and magazines including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The U.K. Telegraph, Time Out Hong Kong, The China Daily, The Global Times, Book Page, DownEast Magazine, More Magazine and Publishers Weekly (starred review).

Susan has been the recipient of two MacDowell Colony residencies, a Breadloaf Writer’s Fellowship and a Massachusetts Arts Council Grant. Maine Today Media gave Susan a 2011 “Greatest Women of Maine” Award. From 2007-2010 she taught writing workshops at the Yin Yang Center in Beijing, China, where she lived with her husband and two boys. Home is now Portland, Maine, where Susan cofounded The Telling Room, a nonprofit creative writing center. She is completing a novel forthcoming from Knopf.

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Join us next Sunday, February 12 at 11 am for the next Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast on WLOB radio Portland 1310 AM/streaming online. Our topic will be "Happy Heart" and guests will include Dr. Mylan Cohen of Maine Medical Partners MaineHealth Cardiology, Dr. Chris Rogers of the Vein Center at Portland Surgical at Mercy Hospital and Jen Goldman of the American Red Cross.

Keep Off the Grass!

By Lisa M. Belisle, MD, MPH
Originally published June 16, 2005, The Forecaster

On a recent Saturday, my husband and I went running through a dog-friendly local park. We met many other early morning denizens on the paths, including children and animals running freely across the fields. We also happened upon something that caused us concern: around the edge of the lawn, apparently unseen by parents and pet owners, were small signs advising caution, and urging individuals to stay off the grass. There had been a pesticide application two hours before.

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