Confidence and empowerment is something near and dear to my heart, as I know the pain of self-rejection and the hazard of constantly striving to over achieve. It’s not productivity that is the problem; the issue is the mindset in which the goals are set and undertaken.

If we as women buy into the faulty thinking that our worth is based on what we do, what we look like and whom we are trying to please today, we will never have peace of mind, empowerment and personal power or authentic confidence.

The driven behavior that is going on in our society today is not even healthy masculine behavior. Truly healthy masculine energy (not male, -masculine- there is a difference) allows us to move forward into life and get things done. It creates a sense of independence, provision and protection.

Even as women we need to have a balance of these qualities in order to speak up, have courage to go through fear and to keep people out of our space when we need to. These qualities are not limited to males/men. The driven quality that most people attribute to men that we see is really the wounded ego. In fact, men need to live in more balance and tap into the feminine qualities of the Queen also, truth be told. The need to relax, feel and enjoy life is a human need for health and well-being.

The ego, our sense of human identity has its place and I believe that if you did not have one, you would not be able to self-identify yourself. Yes, you can be aware that you have an ego, yet are NOT the ego. You can be aware of yourself as a spiritual being, yet living the human experience via your “role” or as you call yourself, yet not get lost in the ego. This only comes via awareness and spiritual maturity which is a process unique to everyone.

It is not a one size fit all cookie-cutter process. Anyway, the ego wounded pushes and drives us as it gets lost in “survival of the fittest”, judgment, competition, all based in fear. Ego gone wild is fear at its worse. So, in earlier decades of my life, my ego, (I too was lost in it at one time), in its need to survive and get, (notice I said “get” not “receive”) affirmation and what I perceived then as love was always striving to prove that I was “good enough”.

Yet, funny thing was I never truly felt good enough or that I had enough of anything, be it time, energy or money. This is no way to live and accounts for all of the stress, fear and chaos that is going on in the world today, not to mention war, disease and greed. As women, it’s time to see through this nonsense and stop the madness in ourselves first, and then perhaps we can do what Dalai Lama said in regard to “the western woman saving the world”.

If we don’t save ourselves first, the attempt to play rescuer again is a waste of time and as dysfunctional as ever. If we don’t develop confidence from our CORE, it’s just fake, cosmetic. Living into the Queen is about self-love, self-acceptance, and recognizing the POWER of love and feelings. Our feelings are just a guidance system to reveal to us what we truly perceive; not what we give lip service to.

As human, women and men, we have allowed ourselves to be conditioned like Pavlov’s dog to repress our feelings and run away. When we learn to make friends with them, we then are able to be truly empowered and physically healthier as well. As we face our fears and release this repressed pain-body of emotion that dwells within us at a cellular and energetic level, we can heal.  Once we heal our wounded ego, these “cataracts of the soul” can fall away and we can let our Light shine and see others and ourselves more clearly.

We can then stop the self-judgment via these illusions, and stop the projection unto others that cause us to judge and compare everything from looks, to where one is educated, lives, etc, etc. The wounded ego loves hierarchy. The Queen is about feeling, flowing, nuturing and then taking inspired action. She uses the masculine qualities as needed in an integrated way, and she also can let go and delegate, without needing to control everything.

Then there is FUN. Now that’s a novel thought. Until we live in more balance and start enjoying life and relationships again – women AND men – we are destined to continue to see rising depression rates, illness and divorce. I went for an early bike ride this morning listening to Black Eye Peas “I Gotta Feeling…. Thank goodness I can feel again.

When I was living in fear and repressing my “bad” feelings, I could not really feel much of anything, including “good” feelings – except when I exploded! Repressing feelings are outright dangerous to your health. When we learn how to release them in a healthy, energetic, quantum way, we can heal our minds, bodies and hearts and start to consciously move into higher levels of spirituality and growth.

I’m about living “thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven”. Confident women are genuinely self-assured without needing to prove their worth to others. We just know we are “ok” just because we breathe! Life is about growth and unfolding, not “fixing” yourself. Let’s keep it practical, lets have fun AND get things done.

Here is a video of “I Gotta Feeling…performed for Oprah in 2009 in Chicago. Joyful feeling is so powerful and inspiring. Your health, wealth and life depend on it. What do you think about the idea of living as the Queen instead of being driven by the opinions of others and the ego?

Valencia Ray, MD
The Confidence Doc

Staying healthy is more important than ever considering the rising rates of cancer and chronic disease in our world – not to mention the expense of healthcare and the emotional fallout. While I personally have healthy nutrition habits and exercise regularly, I do very little specific teaching on what supplements to take or what exercise routine one should be on.

I tend to come from the core of what makes us stay healthy or get sick – mindset. Yes, even disease is related to how you think and feel. In fact, it can make or break you and holistic/integrative physicians already get this.

When we become aware of the role of thoughts, feelings and emotions, we become even more empowered to make healthier choices and actually apply them in the first place. Also, intuitively doesn’t it just make sense that if you think and feel joyful and connected to life, you will feel and be healthier than if you are full of worry, judgment and anger?

In our changing times this information that I am sharing is critical. We are generally conditioned to fear change and by the time the “survival” instinct kicks in, we can find ourselves overwhelmed with worry and anxiety if we are not aware of how to deal with our own brain and nervous system. We think that we have a “right to our opinion” and we certainly do.

The question to ask is, what would you rather be, “right” or healthy? In fact, does it really even matter as to what other people are doing in the details of their life and why waste time looking over the fence into the lives of others? Does our opinion about what others are wearing, doing (particularly if it is legal and not harming others) or how they live their lives, really matter?

Will our opinion change them? Does complaining, worrying or gossiping really create the abundant, prosperous life that you desire? Actually, what I know for sure is that our opinions can be hazardous to not only our body’s health; if left unchecked, they can drain our entire lives. On the other hand, becoming consciously aware of the power of what we think and feel to attract the health and wealth we seek is the most economical and quickest way to achieve it, and this is science, not woo-woo.

Here is a powerful point: Every thought you have has a type of quality of feeling associated with it. When you send out negative opinions with negative feelings about others out into the universe, you ALWAYS feel it in your own body first. This should give new meaning to the ancient proverb: “Do unto to others as you would have others to do unto you”.

You see, what we send out to others in terms of what we think and feel, has to run through our own body’s energy system first. Check how you feel the next time you have an opinion about someone, positive or negative. And, you don’t even have to say it; just think it and you will still feel the response.

Ask yourself the following 3 key questions to assess whether or not your opinions are harmful to your health:

1. Do they (your opinions) uplift and inspire you? Do they bring feelings of joy? If not, how do you feel? Your feelings are your guidance system as to what kind of energy you are currently running through your body.

2. Do they create the feeling of connection to, or separation from others? Love is connection and stimulates health; separation is fear-based and stimulates disease.

3. How do you feel in your body? Do an energy check – Angry? Irritated? Drained? Or Peaceful, Loving and Happy?

It really matters how you feel, as it is the first step in releasing chemicals in the body that lead to more or less health. Health is your natural state. Disease comes from mismanagement of our power as a rule. Remember this the next time you think that you “feel irritated” because someone dyes their hair a color that you disagree with. Is it really worth it? Stay healthy by keeping your focus on your health (not disease), what you want and how you can learn how to live your version of the abundant, whole life. What do you think?

Valencia Ray, MD

The Confidence Doc

Healthcare is on many people’s minds these days. Unfortunately it is a heavy weight on most people’s minds as they are focused on worry, or actually “dis-ease” care when it comes to their health.

This is a part of the very problem we are faced with – worry and focus on disease. Your brain does not like stress; in fact it is toxic to brain cells and a health hazard in general. I believe that the financial pressure from our existing system will likely be the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.

I don’t care how much money is pumped into the system, until the waste stops and people change their paradigm, their belief system about HOW they think – about themselves, their bodies and life in general – the system is going to fail ultimately.

What do I mean by “how we think”? We focus on fear and what we don’t want without realizing that this is not only damaging our brains, it’s creating the very havoc we see in our lives. The hormones and processes that are released in your body when your worry and stress (both based in fear) can not only kill off brain cells, it can damage your heart, your immune system, your digestive tract and your musculoskeletal system…among other things.

Now, instead of business as usual, which is to believe that if you could just pop a pill or make other people act the way you want them to behave, if you make the time to decide to change your mind – and I do mean change your brain and mind – you can begin to shift the gears that lead to destruction in your health.

Also, you can save yourself a lot of pain, suffering and money. The answer? Learn “brain hygiene”, in other words learn how to cleanse your brain/mind of the pollutants of negative thoughts/emotions which boils down to fear. Until we learn how to obtain and maintain peace within ourselves, we can forget about seeing it “out there”.

Peace of mind begins within; you will not be able to buy it or to obtain it by trying to “fix” others. What we judge harshly in others are only projections from our own perception, parts of our story of the “Mental Me” that we don’t want to deal with.

Mindfulness meditation has been shown quite scientifically to slow down the runaway train of the busy mind and the benefits range from improved physical health to happy relationships. And, by default, good physical health and great relationships almost always translates to improved financial health.

At the root of all three is spiritual health. When we learn to take our ego fears and release them and rewire our brains, we can get the “cataracts of the soul” out of the way so that our inner Light can shine. The power of Light and inner peace is a force that can change not only your world, but also the world. A healthy you will create a healthy world.  Any thoughts?

Valencia Ray, MD

The Confidence Doc

Staying healthy and stress seems to be on a lot of people’s minds lately. I came across an article recently that referred to the new study done by Dr. Anil Sood and others in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, that demonstrates that when experiencing stress, mice and humans had acceleration in the growth of cancer cells, in this case, ovarian.

The bottom line – stress is hazardous to your health. Many people do not realize that the chronic feelings of “overwhelm” that they feel – you know, not enough hours in the day, long “to-do” lists and not enough rest and sleep – is really what stress is.

It is the feeling that you cannot control what is happening to you and it is also the fear that you are under threat of some kind, be it job loss and even feelings of insecurity. Yes, it has also been shown that low self-esteem can trigger this stress response in your body. So, is stress something that “you cannot help”?

Do you believe that if your environment where different that then and only then, you can overcome overwhelm? If you believe this, you are like most people. I used to buy into this one back in the 1990’s. It was then that I first experientially realized that stress starts within, it is an inside issue.

It is not the “facts” that cause stress. It is not the things that are happening around you as much as it is the “fiction”, the story about the meaning of the facts. It is about where you are putting your focus and whether or not you are taking care of your mind and body – from the inside out.

See, I thought then like most people, that if I could only change my circumstances that I would have more time and would be able to rest more and have more fun. So, in a nutshell, I was able to create a situation where I went from single-handedly running a large medical practice, managing employees and doing surgery, to arranging a situation where I only worked 8 hours a week with no other responsibility than to see patients in the office.

That’s right, I did not even do surgery or have the responsibility of practice management. This should have instantly alleviated my stress, right? Wrong, I still felt stress and I think I had ADHD in those days to add insult to injury. Through a series of events, I came to realize that the inner turmoil was from a combination of how I thought about myself along with my inner perception about the world and those around me.

Once I learned how to change this, and I will say that one powerful tool is mindfulness meditation, I “magically” found more time and felt more inner peace of mind than I had felt in decades. It is not the facts, what is going on around you; it is your interpretation, your story that creates stress.

Once I had a grip on my mind and feelings and was able to eliminate the misperceptions, I eventually went back into my private practice, purchased my mentors practice and had everything twice the size as before I left. The amazing thing was, I was happy, not stressed and had more time to take care of myself than ever before.

The facts were not only the same as before, there was even more to handle! What changed was my “fiction”, my story and how I saw the facts and what I thought about myself. When your perception changes, you see things that you did not see before and you take new actions. You also impact the actual physiology of your body.

Staying healthy begins with mindset and understanding how to eliminate the noise in your mind, the stuff that “you don’t know that you don’t know”. Stress can be mastered when you learn this new science of the brain and how to combine it with wisdom principles to be applied in a practical way in your everyday life. Staying healthy and empowering yourself begins from the inside out!

Valencia Ray, MD
The Confidence Doc

Staying healthy is the goal of most people. As I look at our healthcare system, it has never been as important as it is today to be proactive in staying healthy.

Between the expense healthcare and medication, the threat to your financial stability and the questionable “scientific” data that supports that taking a million, kazillion (I know this is not a valid term) drugs is acceptable, I’d say one had better do everything possible to maintain their health as naturally and as cost effectively as possible.

Did you know that there is a definite mind-body connection and that stress is related to the reason for 75-90% of all primary care visits to physicians? Actually, I could have told you this without any fancy statistics.

It just plain makes intuitive sense. When you are angry and upset, notice how your body feels. Notice how much more difficult it is to concentrate. Then notice how you feel when you are joyful and happy.

In fact, have your blood pressure checked as you blow a fuse. Have it checked when you are in a relaxed state. It is likely that it will be high with anger and normal to low when relaxed. A relaxed state is a healthy state. I want to pick on worry in this blog post today though, because it is so epidemic.

I had the clerk in my neighborhood grocery store yesterday, tell me in definite “I will not change my mind terms” that there were “no jobs” available for her son to obtain in all of the United States, and that he would have to leave the country to find a job in his field.

Unless he made horse and buggies or telegraph/typewriters, – you know, something we don’t even use anymore – I doubt that her statement is true.

Yet, she obviously looked worry and upset as I discerned her energy and noticed the contorted expression on her face. I’m going to give you 7 reasons why you don’t want to go there. Worry is essentially faith for what you DON’T want. Simple as that.

It hasn’t happened, the person is just imagining it to be happening or is expecting (faith) that it will happen. Why not expect the best? Or at least remain neutral. In a nutshell, people generally worry because we are conditioned to do so.

As a world, we have so trained our brain to live in fear and expecting the next disaster that our nervous system is always on alert to “fight, flight or freeze”. This is what the stress response is.

Yet, we are capable of undoing this “hypnosis” on ourselves and rewiring and retraining our brains to come from a more uplifting space. Our brain is meant to serve us and does not judge the data you, your consciousness and intellect, feeds it. You must filter the facts that you see and come up with your own interpretation that forms your perception.

So, here are 7 reasons why you want to give up worrying and convert to becoming more of an optimist instead of a worrywart. Worry is dangerous to your health. Worry triggers the stress response, and here are seven (there are many others) side effects of stress:

1. Weakened immune system
2. Cancer
3. Heart Disease
4. Hypertension
5. Loss of concentration
6. Alzheimer’s Disease/Other brain cell damage
7. Weight gain

I didn’t even mention anxiety and when this gets severe enough, even issues like depression can arise. I think you get the point here.

There are simple ways to learn how to operate your amazing supercomputer, the brain and mind, while also at the same time getting back in touch with who you really are at your core, your Authentic Self. This is the path to staying healthy and true empowerment. Empowering your health begins from inside out. Any comments?

Valencia Ray, MD

The Confidence Doc

Stress is so common now that there is an American Institute of Stress. Unfortunate. I read a statistic recently that 75-90% of all visits to a primary care doctor is due to stress. What is stress?

Essentially it is an emotional dis-ease. It is a chronic feeling of overwhelm, insecurity and feeling out of control in some way. It is a perception based in danger or threat. And the good news is, it is by far psychological. I say “good” in that if you learn how to change your mindset, you can change your level of stress.

I know from first hand experience. It’s not even how much you do, as it is how you are thinking ABOUT what you are doing. It is generally not due to a real physical threat, only one in your imagination.

If you set your intention to change, and find someone, like me, who understands how to consciously calm down your brain, and reframe the way you perceive life, you can shift your reality from one based in fear, dread and unhappiness to one that is expansive, abundant and out right peaceful. Does it take effort?

Yes, and probably not as much as you think. However I will say, if you think you can change your life without any determination or commitment, you are just going to continue to stress yourself out.

Eliminating stress is really an inside job. Once you change your inner reality, the outer will just line up – it’s magical how that happens.

We have been taught almost everything that leads to empowerment in a backwards order. We are taught to look outside of ourselves for our security, love and self-esteem and then we wonder why enough is never enough and why our happiness feels so unstable.

If you have to find your happiness in the weather, your job (see what’s going on now?), or the opinions of flaky acting people, is it any wonder that life feels like a rollercoaster ride? Since you need to start somewhere, for now, you can help yourself if you would just start taking your attention away from the following five things that you cannot control – except by choosing to think and feel differently and learning how to do it.

Just by becoming aware to take your focus off of what you don’t want, and instead looking for something – anything – to be grateful for, you can lower your sense of stress and overwhelm. Here are five common things people do that can raise their stress levels:

1. Listen to and focus on negative news online or off

2. Ruminating about the past

3. Worrying about your job or future

4. Multitasking an overloaded “To-Do” lists

5. Worrying about what others say about you

As a bonus, a variant of number 5, negative self-talk, will also send your stress levels through the roof and help to worsen your self-esteem on top of it. There are studies that show how this works. Look at the list.

All items can be changed when you learn to change your mindset. The past is just the way you choose to remember the event; you ascribe the meaning and significance to it. You can learn how to re-write these unproductive stories and release the emotional charge from the cellular memory in your body.

Empowering yourself will help you to stress less and be your best – from the inside out! Have you ever thought about how you can stress less?

Valencia Ray, MD

The Confidence Doc

Empowerment is more often a topic for discussion lately, I believe because we are undergoing a shift in paradigms. Most people are looking at the changes going on in the world as a “bad” thing. I see the metaphor of the butterfly when I look around.

What it feels like to me is that society is like the caterpillar that is undergoing change and in that transition of going from the less than gracefully caterpillar to the butterfly there is a struggle. With change comes turmoil often because most people resist it and react instead of responding from a place of power.

We all want a better health care system, yet just look at all of the resistance going on in Washington. We want prosperity, yet our system breed debt and Wall Street and the markets are a mess. Then there’s the issue of relationships. Depression and dysfunction is at an all time high, yet, most people resist personal change until they hit the proverbial brick wall.

Why wait?

Change is going to come either way. We can resist kicking and screaming or adapt and learn how to get into the flow. We can proactively release our old baggage and wounded emotional patterns by learning new ways of shifting using our awareness and working with the energy of life, or we can stuff our feelings and continue to experience more chronic disease and lack of peace within ourselves and with others.

Fear, suffering and misery can be dealt with if we would simply make a conscious decision to make friends with the inevitable. As long as you are in this human body, you WILL have to contend with change and emotion. Mark it down. So, what I’ve found is, going the route of cooperation is the way to go.

Since I have learned, using a combination of science, intuition/spirituality and psychology, how to proactively manage my thoughts, feelings and emotion, I see and experience life in a whole new way. I see a whole new world. We don’t see life the way it is; we see it as we are wired on the inside.

The world is but a reflection of our inner beliefs. Since I have learned how to make friends with change, I am far less reactive to the monkey wrenches that get thrown into my day. I really like and love who I am, which for me would have seemed impossible a decade ago. I have better relationships, I’m in excellent health, and I expect the best so I no longer fear disappointment.

If I don’t get what I want, then I choose again. We are taught to live in fear of disappointment and to run from “negative” (I say inharmonious instead) feelings. There are reasons for this, and it is not rocket science to understand. It just takes a willingness to open our minds and to learn some new ideas and paradigms.

It is simple, maybe not always easy, but if you want to have an abundant whole life, you must learn to make peace, make friends which change and emotions, the two power brokers that determine if you live empowered or victimized. What do you think?

Valencia Ray, MD
The Confidence Doc

Stress is epidemic these days. What is stress? First let me say that stress in general is an emotional “dis-ease”. You are not at ease when you feel stressed out and the reason is based in feelings of overwhelm.

When one is overwhelmed, she or he is not feeling very empowered. Feeling stress then is to feel disempowered. Now this is certainly not something that is in our best interest. When you are stressed, you are feeling threatened and this is a mind/brain response whether the perceived threat is real, meaning physical threat or psychological.

If your life is in danger, the stress response can help you to run faster, fight stronger or, for better or for worse – freeze. Other than physical escape, the response can interfere with your performance.

If you were meeting a deadline, enthusiasm or excitement would serve you better than getting yourself all worked up about last minute preparedness. The main thing to consider about stress is to understand that it is also very dangerous to your health.

Sure, overwhelm is unpleasant, but that is the least of your concern when it comes to stress. Consider the following facts about stress:

1. Stress weakens your immune system, increasing your likelihood of contracting disease

2. Stress has even been associated with creating susceptibility to cancer

3. Stress reduces your cognitive ability – it can cause you to make “stupid” decisions

4. Chronic elevation of stress hormones can cause weight gain

5. Increases your risk of heart attack and stroke

6. Is toxic to brain cells and memory

7. Increases muscle tension and stiffness leading to an inflexible body

The list could easily go on. You get the point. It is not to be taken lightly. One of the best things you can do for stress and more peace of mind is to start taking your brain to the “mindfulness gym” to re-wire and retrain it to break the stress cycle, which is essentially a habitual response.

Mindfulness meditation is like hygiene for the brain. Also, aerobic exercise and staying hydrated with pure, clean water goes a long way as well. There are several other things you can do as well.

For inner peace and better health overall, I highly recommend the mindfulness practices. Aren’t love, joy and peace what we are really after? When these feelings are our starting point, health, wealth and happy relationships are a natural consequence.

Worry and stress are destructive. Learning to relax is more than just a nice idea. It could save your life!

Valencia Ray, MD
The Confidence Doc

I find it challenging at times to go to the grocery store and hear nothing but disease messages like “did you get your flu shot”? It’s “cold and flu season again” (no such thing, literally). Or how about “you have a ____% chance of dying of breast cancer (yet statistically you have a much greater likelihood of never getting the disease in the first place, what about this?)

Do you notice that fear, fear, fear, is blasting all too often over the airways? Not to put my head in the sand, but walking about worrying about dying is no way to live.

Looking for your personal power?… here’s a hint – it’s an inside job!

“We all sit around in a circle and suppose while the secret sits in the the center and knows” ~ Robert Frost

Since I stopped believing in a “cold and flu” season I rarely “catch” one. If I’m stressed or tired and then feel symptoms coming on, virtually always, if I get a good nights sleep, meditate and relax, by the next day they are gone. Do not underestimate the power of belief. Fear is simply faith in what you do not want, generally speaking. I’m focusing my attention on peace as what you focus on expands. There are several paths that lead to peace, but ultimately, you can only truly find it from the inside out. Since the world can’t give it, the world can’t take it away.

Here are a few tips that can be useful:

1. Make it your business to keep your attention off of distractions that scare the joy out of you. If you can’t change it, why waste your attention worrying about it? Change what you can, and leave the details to the Universe.

2. Set your intention daily to focus on what is true, lovely and life-giving. Here’s an apparently novel idea these days: focus on health instead of disease.

3. Give thanks and gratitude for whatever is working in your life. I bet if you simply look to your left, right or into the mirror in front of you to notice that you actually have eyes to see yourself with, you can find something to appreciate today!

Empowerment will only be found when you stop looking for love in all the wrong places. You are already enough – the world will only distract you from this truth. Go within or you will go with out(er). ~Hint: outer may not be in your best interest! What do you think?

Valencia Ray, MD

The Confidence Doc

Emotional awareness and empowerment are connected in that feelings are the fuel that drives thoughts. What I mean is, while thought is important, the emotional perception attached to the thought makes all of the difference as far as the energy that you put out into the Universe as a “vibe”.

This matters to your health in terms of the stress that people are feeling now due to the turmoil that is going on in our economy. I am hearing more and more about “stress” and how people are worried about their security.

I’ve read articles where even people who are employed and are not under imminent threat of losing anything are also experiencing increased depression and anxiety. The issue here is that most people believe that the external environment is causing them to feel fearful or powerless.

We are conditioned to believe that life is happening to us. Actually, we are, by the power of our own perception, creating the anxiety and this anxiety can actually contribute to our experience of life. True, there are issues going on in the economy, but that does not in and of itself cause your ulcer.  It is your fear, your perception of perceived threat, which is triggering your nervous system to react in the “fight, flight or freeze” response. Everyone is not responding the same way.  I know I am not.

I live here in the United States as well. I am fortunate enough to have taken the time and made it my business to understand my own mind over the past decade. I used to be an overwhelmed, stress-out professional, but I pursued the “secrets of the Universe”, and I have found them in essence.One principle that is certainly true is this: “be it unto you as you believe”.  This is an ancient proverb that Quantum Physics and brain research in general is proving.  It is not “religious”; it is not “woo-woo”. The fact is, it is how you think and feel that creates your life experience.

What you truly believe in your heart, meaning you expect and feel it, will ultimately become your reality. In order to expand in authentic empowerment, you must learn to manage your thoughts and feelings consciously, and how to release negative energy from your human bio-magnetic field.

This energy is stored in the form of feelings that are trapped in your body at a cellular level. Long-term memory is stored in the body. This is fact, not opinion. Until you make the time to update your knowledge with current information, Spirit, Mind and Body, you will be at the whim of negative media and the people around you predicting doom and gloom.

Life does not have to be lived this way. I see our current chaos as an opportunity for us to create a new paradigm that empowers the individual to live their best life, a life that is consciously co-created for the highest good of all concerned. Empowerment is an inside job!

Valencia Ray MD
The Confidence Doc