What a family welcome to episode 297 of the Genius Life. Let's go.

What's crack-legged everybody welcome back to another episode of the show.

I'm your host Max Lugovier, a filmmaker, health and science journalist in New York Times

best-selling author. I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind how our choices

including what we eat and how we live affect our cognitive and physical performance,

how we feel and our health span and risk for disease. This podcast is all about how to live in that

optimal state, which I call living like a genius. On today's episode of the show, I'm super

excited to welcome the wonderful and brilliant Dr. Sheffali. Dr. Sheffali's groundbreaking work

in conscious parenting has been hailed by Oprah as revolutionary. She's written four books,

three of which are New York Times best-sellers, including her two landmark books,

The Conscious Parent and the Awakened Family. She holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from

Columbia University and specializes in the integration of Western psychology with Eastern philosophy.

As an international speaker, she speaks at events around the globe, spreading her message of

conscious parenting and mindful living. On today's episode, we are going to celebrate the release

of her latest book, an instant national and international best-seller, The Parenting Map,

step-by-step solutions to consciously create the ultimate parent-child relationship.

In the book, and on this episode of the show, Dr. Sheffali is going to help disrupt toxic

inherited patterns and help replace them with authentic connections that allow us to see and

respond to our children for who they are and who they can become. But for the non-parents in the

audience, such as myself, and I'm sure many of you listening to this who have yet to take the

plunge into parenthood, there's going to be a lot on here to help heal our own wounds that we

have with our own parents because no parent is perfect. And Dr. Sheffali is wonderful at helping

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