Edie Raether

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• Bully-Proof Your Kids, Classroom and Community – Known as The Bully Buster, Edie’s inspiring keynotes creates a neuropathway for students and teachers to think differently Her one-day inservice training program provides tools and techniques that convert conflict into cooperation and hate into kindness. (It is experiential)
• Unstoppable: If You Can’t Walk…DANCE: Turning Tragedy into Triumph to Bounce Back Big – Join Edie’s transformational journey where you will embrace the power tools to turn obstacles into opportunities. Beyond positive thinking, it is positive “knowing’ that fuels the forces of conviction that breaks through all barriers. With mind mastery methods, a positive belief system, and the willingness to do whatever it takes, you too will be unstoppable.
• The Digital Dopamine Dilemma: Mind Mastery and Brain Hacks to Cultivate Healthy Habits – Taking you on a deeper dive into the neurochemistry of success, you will discover the driving force behind our brains and behavior…dopamine, the maestro of motivation. The dopamine addiction due to excessive screen time and social media is rewiring the brain and is the culprit in the rise in drugs, depression, suicide, anxiety and other mental health challenges.
• 12 Do’s and Don’ts of Parenting: How to Raise a Remarkable Kid – With over 50 years of experience as a family counselor, Edie provides an easy-to-implement blueprint for successful parenting. Edie provides answers to your everyday challenges and solutions to dealing with difficult behaviors. Rule number one: Children learn what they live.
• I Believe I Can Fly! An Empowering Character-Building Program Unleashing Inner Genius – This “Done for You” experiential process includes an inspiring book, audios with visualization exercises, a blanket planting seeds of greatness, and guidelines for parents. The program wires children ages 3-9 for health, happiness and success, Visit WingsforWishes.com for more information and view the TEDx Talk Brain Fitness for Kids: Cloning the DNA of Einstein which reveals the neuropsychology woven into the fabric of this transformational program.
• Optimism is Not Optional – Optimism is having a positive outlook on life, but the one thing an optimist cannot view as positive is a pessimist! In your vision of the world is the image of yourself. Whether you see the glass as half full or half empty, optimism fuels hope which strengthens your immune system and thus is essential to your physical, mental and emotional well being. If your beliefs are more powerful than your circumstances, your behavior and circumstances will adapt to your beliefs and expectations. Without a neurological explanation, Christopher Reeve, a quadriplegic,  had movement because of sheer desire and belief. Optimism makes you bigger than your problem, thus turning obstacles into opportunity.
• Happiness: A Do-It-Yourself Job – The pursuit of happiness is more than just a simple phrase or movie, it is the essential emotion to getting what you want as well as improved health and a sense of well being. Unfortunately most people seek it from others which lead to a sense of defeat, depression and even despair.  The truth is we are looking for the right answer but in the wrong place.
• Opportunity for Action – When opportunity knocks, do you open the door or complain about the noise? Opportunity is often a matter of perception. In our vision of the world is the image of ourselves. It may seem like some people have all the luck, which is often not a random act, but a time when preparation and opportunity come together. Although opportunity is often a result of what we create, we must first recognize it to thus tap into it. The world is full of abundance and while water may be everywhere, so many fish in the sea are dying of thirst. Missed opportunities are obvious to the masses, for once a possibility manifests, reality requires mere observation of what might have been.
• Stop Playing the Blame Game – Blaming may be your greatest enemy and obstacle to making your goals happen.  Making excuses and denial is a game we play with ourselves, but blaming gives uninvited responsibility for your behavior to another. Trust me, they don’t want it! In fact, they will throw it right back at you with triple the thrust. You now have antagonized those who might have been your greatest support system in helping you make the desired change.