5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, coming up on today's episode of the virtual couch, I interview a friend, a mentor, |
0:06.7 | Dr. She's a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a daughter, a sister, a friend. She's a veteran, |
0:11.9 | an author, an educator, and an advocate. It's what she does, and it's who she is. And in 2013, |
0:17.1 | her neurologist told her that she only had two to five years to live. And after a year of trying to |
0:21.4 | figure out what was slowly happening to her body, Shelly was diagnosed with ALS or Lou Gehrig's |
0:26.4 | disease. Some call it the ice bucket challenge disease, but from her website, and I quote, |
0:31.2 | whatever you call it, it's a fatal diagnosis with no effective treatment or cure, yet I have much |
0:35.9 | to live for. And I'm determined to live |
0:37.6 | in gratitude and joy, regardless of circumstance. I feel alive while I'm encouraging others to |
0:42.6 | live their best life. Today she talks about her book, Timeless Sisters, and she truly does, |
0:48.1 | just live that message. She feels alive when encouraging others to live their best life. And I think |
0:53.0 | you will be more determined to live your best life. And I think you will be more determined |
0:55.8 | to live your best life after hearing this interview today. I can't wait to share this with you. |
0:59.7 | Coming up next on the virtual couch. |
1:12.5 | Hey, everybody, I'll make this one quick. |
1:15.8 | Now, as a therapist myself, of course, I recommend that everybody give therapy a try. |
1:19.3 | Truly, we're all hanging on to some things that would be helpful to process, or there's things in our life that we might, maybe we thought we'd achieve by now, or there's things that we |
1:22.7 | desperately want to achieve so that we won't live a life full of regrets. |
1:26.2 | Or there are people listening right now |
1:27.9 | who may be noticing that their anxiety or their depression is getting a tiny bit more, let's call it |
1:32.8 | amplified the longer that it's left untreated. You owe it to yourself or those around you, |
1:36.6 | to your spouse, your kids, and actually I guess really the most important person is you to at the |
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