September 2025 Newsletter
“I Upset Me!”
(Join Us: 91-Day Life-Changing Challenge)
Hello LWA Seekers of Greater Well-BEing!
You might be asking: “What’s this ‘I Upset Me!’ all about?” You might be thinking: “I don’t upset me. Other people / events upset me.” Nope. YOU UPSET YOU! Yep! It’s FACT! Hang with me because if you do, your life will reach levels you never thought possible. We can all find ourselves at times a bit stressed out, frustrated, worried, not totally at ease with some aspect of life. Most people would say “Well, that’s normal.” Why? Because we have all been programmed since birth for disappointment, discontent, difficulty, worry, grief, inadequacy – think of any negative thought / emotion. It’s a program – in the left brain.
Does it have to be this way? NO! At ANY moment, under any life circumstance, no matter what our past or current experiences, we have the POWER to STOP and question the “upset” program which is subconsciously running wild under the radar. According to Harvard neuroanatomist Dr Jill Bolte Taylor, once we recognize the negative thought we are thinking and feeling, we have the ability to CHOOSE to think and feel - and act - differently. If we STOP and question the negative thinking and feeling, we STOP that negative nerve pathway and all the destructive neurochemicals and reactions affecting all our body systems. Dr JBT states it takes about 90 seconds to clear those negative chemicals – as long as we don’t keep running the same negative circuitry (through our negative thoughts) over and over. She calls it a B.R.A.I.N. Huddle: Breathe a few seconds, Recognize your thinking/feeling, Appreciate your left brain’s desire to try to help you, Inquire within the right brain for a better innovative approach, and Navigate the new thinking. I’ll be going over how to simply apply this key strategy to greater peace and joy in our lives UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE during this week’s webinar. I’ll give several examples to show the peace and joy it can bring. It’s AMAZINGLY simple and effective – if you’re OPEN to having a better life!
Science has shown that through NEUROPLASTICITY (rewiring the neuronal circuity), we have the POWER to CHANGE the ANATOMY (structure) and PHYSIOLOGY (functioning) of our BRAIN. Yes, you read that correctly: We can CHANGE the ANATOMY and PHYSIOLOGY of our BRAIN. HOW? With our THINKING. Now, this is crazy great stuff. We are our BRAIN. We are our THINKING. Our thinking changes the structure and functioning of our brain. CHANGE YOUR THINKING, CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, CHANGE YOUR LIFE! Having difficulty making changes in some aspect of your life (physical, emotional, social, financial, spiritual - - ALL of the above!)? You’ve got to CHANGE YOUR BRAIN. To quote Albert Einstein: We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them. We need NEW THINKING creating a NEW BRAIN with new hardwired improved programs that run automatically.
We keep updating our cars, houses, furniture, clothes, appliances, computers, phones, etc etc etc. We need to UPDATE OUR BRAIN with improved programs for greater health, happiness, productivity, vitality, creativity, PEACE, and LOVE! Doing so, we get closer to the life God created us to experience.
What does it require? It necessitates we use our ENTIRE BRAIN: 1.) editing dysfunctional pathways that are leading to depression, disease, and disability and 2.) utilizing programs for health and happiness that are available to ALL of us! This is one of the hottest areas of wellness. Yes, we need to Make Movement Mandatory daily, Critique Caloric Consumption, have Normal Numbers Now, and all the other 11 LWA Essential Elements to Health and Happiness. We need to install Living WELL Aware brain circuit pathways that are created through repetitive THOUGHTS and resultant ACTIONS, so that they run automatically, subconsciously. New Thinking, New Brain, NEW YOU!
THE PROBLEM: If we don’t understand WHY we think, feel, and act the way we do, it’s going to be a struggle to make long-standing, life-improving changes in ALL areas of our lives. FACT: How we use our brain determines our health and happiness: physically, emotionally, socially, financially, and spiritually. To quote Dr JBT: “Peace is a thought away.” What if we lived life knowing we were created to have a life of Peace and Joy, knowing that it was possible. Let’s question the old saying: “I’ll believe it when I see it.” WRONG! When we BELIEVE it, we will SEE it! Question. Trust. Believe. For many of us, this truly is a spiritual journey. We understand that our connection with a Higher Power, with everyone and all creation, is the source of our fulfillment in life.
We can find ourselves creating a “hell on earth” – with our thinking. I constantly remind myself: It’s NOT what that person did or that unexpected, unwanted event that happened that upset me. I Upset Me! I chose to be upset. WHY? It’s my decades of life programming – by well-meaning parents / family members, friends, society. But now, I’m Living WELL Aware! I can STOP, recognize that negative thinking and the resultant feeling is just a program that I’m running automatically. I can choose to continue to run that program OR choose to have greater health, happiness, peace, and joy by stopping that program and running a better one – which happens to be located in a different part of my brain. Understand your brain. Understand your life.
NOTE: I get it. People may treat us unkindly or wrong us in some way. That’s reality. No one is perfect, meeting the expectations of everyone. Life may not play out like the left brain has planned - - I truly get that! Living WELL Aware is knowing we always get to CHOOSE how we are going to deal with people and events. Our health and happiness is on the line. Let’s CHOOSE WISELY. Let’s create a NEW, IMPROVED BRAIN. IT’S TIME TO UPGRADE.
Want to create a life of greater Peace, Joy, Success? JOIN US for LWA 2025-2026 which will include the 91 Day Life-Improving Challenge to Greater Health, Happiness, Peace, Joy, and Success. The LWA 2025-2026 webinar series officially started this month. The 91 Day Challenge will begin in September, concluding in December. The challenge involves a life-changing activity that EVERYONE can do and only takes 5 minutes a day – every day! It works and will be reinforced throughout LWA 2025-2026 to keep you on track to achieve the life of your dreams.
THANKS! Registrations continue to come in for LWA 2025-2026! We got several today!
To clarify, LWA 2025-2026 is Aug 2025 through May 2026 and includes:
2 Live Wellness Webinars per month (recordings available through May 2026)
- Wellness topic of the month
- Wellness book review of the monthWeekly Newsletter
LWA Online Course which covers diverse topics including inflammation, cancer prevention, nutrition, and much more.
Recordings of all the LWA 2024 diverse wellness topics
The 91-Day Life-Changing Challenge
NOTE: Change in Schedule. We have moved Dr Waxman’s presentation on SUPPLEMENTS: HELPFUL VS HARMFUL to September 9. NEW EXCITING INFORMATION that we couldn’t wait to present.
LINK TO LWA 2025-2026 REGISTRATION / INFORMATION
LINK TO TESTIMONIALS OF WEBINAR SERIES
LINK TO SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Next LWA 2025-2026 Webinar: Tuesday, August 26 at 6:30pm: We will be reviewing Dr Jill Bolte Taylor’s Book: Whole Brain Living. Recording available to registrants.
A BIG THANK YOU to Temple College School of Nursing! Living WELL Aware is being incorporated into the School of Nursing curriculum. This is an exciting opportunity to have our future nurses lead by example. ONWARD!
A BIG THANK YOU to Education Service Center 12 in Waco! Looking forward to rolling out Living WELL Aware as part of the ESC 12 wellness program. ONWARD!
THANKS to Austin Diocese Catholic Schools for having me speak to school nurses AND approving our adolescent curriculum for middle school students. You had the highest percentage of attendees of any group this summer sign up for LWA 2025-2026. You ARE living WELL aware! See ya on Zoom!
ONWARD, creating a better life with a better brain!
Patricia J. Sulak MD /Jeffrey A. Waxman, MD
THANKS to the many school districts utilizing Living WELL Aware: My Choices, My Life – The Guide to Adolescent Wellness. Check out our brief info video LINK TO VIDEO and reasons so many public, private, Christian, and special needs schools are implementing our program. Contact Gabe at gabe@livingwellaware.com to view the actual curriculum platform. LINK TO PDF.
Does your school, business, or organization need a Wellness Awakening? Contact Gabe Waxman, LWA Director of Operations (gabe@livingwellaware.com) to schedule a wellness keynote presentation, workshop, or conference. It’s a game changer! That’s our guarantee. LINK to INFORMATION KIT
