Women's Wellness Speaker Bringing the Mind and Spirit Back into Medicine

Dr. Karen Wolfe is a women’s wellness speaker on stress management, wellness, nutrition, and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine.

When you want the expertise of a medical doctor, as well as a keynote speaker who can take complex information and make it fresh, understandable and fun for consumers, Dr. Karen Wolfe relishes the assignment. She is also totally at home speaking to other healthcare professionals. She cares that her audiences get it, so her presentations often include demonstrations and participation that bring personal meaning to her audience members.

People relate instantly to her warmth, sincerity and sense of humor, as they open up to new ways of seeing and experiencing topics such as body wisdom, the relationship of stress and body fat, or the connection between matters of the heart and the heart muscle itself. Dr. Wolfe finds the mind-body-spirit connection compelling and has been a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine.

Dr. Karen is an Australian physician, entrepreneur, Healthy Lifestyle Coach, author and international speaker. She was born in Sydney Australia and graduated from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and completed a Master’s Degree in Psychology from National University in California.

Intially, she worked in Australia as a family physician. She spoke on many panels regarding healthcare reform and was selected to attend the Executive Management School with the Australian Government. She later spent eight years in the administration of national health care, wellness and senior programs in her role as the Medical Director of the Australian Government Health Service.

Dr. Karen moved to the United States in 1991 and began her wellness career in corporate wellness. She assisted companies and school districts in reducing healthcare costs by customizing wellness programs to improve the health and well being of employees. She later became certified as a Mindful Coach and went on to become the National Mindful Coaching Instructor. She is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and is a long-time faculty member of the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine. She is a Trustee of the National Wellness Institute and in 2007 was inducted into the Service and Leadership Circle as recognition of her contributions to the field of wellness. Her greatest professional passions are the areas of stress, preventative nutrition and life balance.

Dr. Karen is the author of seven books. Her newest is, Is Your Lifestyle Killing You? The 8 Simple Steps for Lasting Weight Loss and Optimal Health. Others are From Stress to Strength, Medicine from the Inside Out and Create the Body Your Soul Desires. She is an international speaker on stress management, wellness and nutrition. She has been a speaker for high profile groups such as Young Presidents’ Organization, Philippine International Physician Symposium, PIMCO, Allianz Global Investors and The National Association of Women Business Owners. Dr. Karen cares that her audience understand and apply the principles she teaches and her presentations often include demonstrations and participation that bring personal meaning to her audience members.

 

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BUSINESS AND LEADERSHIP FOCUS

Peak Performance Living – 8 Keys to Maximize Your Focus, Motivation and Mental and Physical Health

Dr. Karen shares scientifically proven methods of diet and exercise that improve performance and disposition quickly, safely–and without drugs. Anyone can gain optimism, intellectual clarity, sharpened memory, and deep feelings of well-being naturally by adjusting the brain’s chemistry with these methods. Learn how to unlock your optimal physical and mental health and performance potential. Dr. Karen has helped hundreds of her clients achieve optimal performance using these principles. Her message changes lives, and most importantly, offer long-lasting tangible results.

 

Coaching Skills for Leadership Success – How to Create a Culture of Coaching to Get Better Results

Coaching synthesizes what is known about how people improve performance based on psychology, communication, education, and studies of the brain. At its core, coaching is an asset-based approach, and it came about because people perform better when their ability to think about choices is expanded.

 

Your Health is an Investment, Not An Expense – It Becomes an Expense If You Do Not Take Time to Invest

With the epidemic escalation of obesity, diabetes, depression, and dementia, our health is going the wrong way at a very rapid pace, and healthcare costs are rising out of control. The answer is lifestyle changes that work! Dr. Karen presents here 8 keys to optimal health that work!

 

No Health, No Wealth – Take Care of Your #1 Profit Center

Many are ignoring their health in pursuit of wealth. Studies show that 69% percent of employees report that work is a significant source of stress and 41% say they typically feel tense or stressed out during the workday. Healthcare expenditures for employees with high levels of stress were 46% higher than those for employees who did not have high levels of stress.

 

Wellness At Work – Practical Tips to Find Your Fit At Work 

Do you feel you don’t have enough hours in the day to stay healthy? Would you like some tangible solutions for real-world results? Dr. Karen has spent 20 years helping people create health in a practical and easy to implement way. You will learn how to reduce stress to enhance concentration, inspire movement at work, support better sleep, make healthier food choices and even achieve your ideal weight – without adding hours to the workday! This will be a journey for you to be inspired to clear the clutter of health information overload and gain clarity. With passion, power, and a pioneering spirit, Karen will take you on a journey you will never forget.

 

FULL AND HALF DAY WORKSHOPS 

• Peak Performance Living – 8 Keys to Maximize Your Focus, Motivation and Mental and Physical Health

• Coaching Skills for Leadership Success – How to Create a Culture of Coaching to Get Better Results

   

HEALTH & WELLNESS FOCUS

4 Major Heart Disease Myths and 4 Groundbreaking Truths for Heart Health

Heart disease is the #1 cause of death in the entire world, yet most people are still eating, exercising, and living according to outdated — and dangerous — heart health myths.

These mistakes could be: draining your energy, impairing your sleep (yes, it’s connected to your heart health), keeping you overweight (especially around the middle), and putting you at high risk for heart disease. (Even if your cholesterol is normal!). You will learn how to separate fads from facts !

 

Quick Healthy Food Hacks for A Busy Life

Preparing nutritious meals is more important than ever but it can sometimes seem like a rather tricky and time-consuming task. It doesn’t have to be. Dr. Karen brings you easy snacks, food prep and cooking hacks, that will take the hard work out of eating healthy.

 

Healthy Gut, Healthy Body- 4 Keys to A Healthy Gut

We’ve only recently begun to understand the extent of the gut’s role in human health and disease. Among other things, the gut promotes normal gastrointestinal function, provides protection from infection, regulates metabolism, and comprises more than 75% of our immune system. An unhealthy gut has been linked to diseases ranging from autism and depression to autoimmune conditions like Hashimoto’s, inflammatory bowel disease, and type 1 diabetes. Recent research has shown that the health of the gut, in general, also plays a significant role in both obesity and type 2 diabetes.

In this presentation, you will learn the power of your second brain and the 4 keys to keeping your gut healthy and vital.

 

How to Get off the Sugar Roller Coaster

Sugar gets a bad rap for good reason: It’s connected to a myriad of health problems (including obesity). Sugar is hidden in many everyday foods and can set up a vicious cycle that results in nutritional deficiencies, chronic illness, and obesity. Dr. Karen is determined to awaken people to the truth about sugar and help you get off the sugar roller coaster! She will share 4 steps for ending sugar cravings once and for all.

 

Functional Medicine 101: Imperatives for Reshaping Medicine for the 21st Century

The escalating cost of chronic disease can only be solved by shifting our focus from suppression and management of symptoms to addressing their underlying causes. Functional Medicine offers this shift as an individualized, patient-centered, science-based approach that addresses the causes of complex, chronic disease, which are rooted in lifestyle choices, environmental exposures, and genetic influences.

 

How to Keep Your Brain Alive –  Five Factors that Can Heal and Protect Your Brain

The data is so strikingly strong to show that many of our simple lifestyle choices are strongly related to either increasing or decreasing our risk for early cognitive decline.  Learn the role of Sleep, Stress, Nutrition, Exercise, and the Microbiome to renew the brain and how to increase the body’s production of BDNF (which allows the brain to grow new neurons).

 

The Myths and Truths About Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s is not a disease. It is a constellation of things that come together that ultimately lead to the generation of the brain in terms of its structural integrity and function.  There is amazing research to support this new thinking and dispel myths.

 

Vital Health for Vital Aging – The Six Keys to Vitality and Vigor

Dr. Karen was trained as a Western medical doctor. She knows that her training did not teach her how to improve or heal poor digestion, forgetfulness, a bad knee, or other problems of aging. She was trained to believe that little can be done for an aging body except to prescribe medication. Now she knows differently, and it passionate about teaching her audiences that advances in Lifestyle Medicine.

 

Is Your Lifestyle A Health Risk? – 8 Keys To Optimal Health and Weight Loss

With the epidemic escalation of obesity, diabetes, depression, and dementia, our health is going the wrong way at a very rapid pace.

 

Unlock the Power of the Female Brain – The Keys to Better Energy, Focus, Mood, and Joy

The female brain is unique in many ways. If you are not taking care of your brain, you are at higher risk of brain fog, memory problems, low energy, obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. You are most certainly going to age faster and become ill more often. Women are far more likely than men to suffer from anxiety and depression. This presentation will teach you the steps to optimize your female brain for better health, energy, focus, and joy!

 

Why Weight? – Unlocking the Keys to Weight Loss

What if everything we have been taught about weight loss is wrong? Virtually everyone who has used calorie restriction for weight loss has failed, yet, it remains the method of choice. This leaves us feeling like we have failed, and we think we have no willpower. The failing isn’t ours! The portion-control and caloric-restriction diet is virtually guaranteed to fail. Eating less does not result in lasting weight loss. This presentation gives new hope and insight into finding and sustaining your ideal weight.

 

Wellness At Work – Practical Tips to Find Your Fit At Work

Do you feel you don’t have enough hours in the day to stay healthy? Would you like some tangible solutions for real-world results? Dr. Karen has spent 20 years helping people create health in a practical and easy to implement way. You will learn how to reduce stress to enhance concentration, inspire movement at work, support better sleep, make healthier food choices and even achieve your ideal weight – without adding hours to the workday! This will be a journey for you to be inspired to clear the clutter of health information overload and gain clarity. With passion, power, and a pioneering spirit, Karen will take you on a journey you will never forget.

PROFESSIONAL AUDIENCES

The Power of Nutrigenomics – A New Era in Precision and Personalized Wellness

We have finally been able to put the science to the idea that we’re all different. We respond in a different way to the environment, to diet, to trying to lose weight, to exercise training. But we never really understood the science behind it. Genetics gives us that information.

Nutrigenomics is the study of gene behavior that is driven by diet, lifestyle, environment, drugs, pharmaceuticals, stress. Nutrigenomic education, accreditation, certification is becoming more accepted. Dr. Karen explains Nutrigenomics in an easy-to-understand way, and you will walk away realizing you have the ability to reshape your health and well-being! CLICK HERE FOR A MORE DETAILED EXPLANATION

 

Depression, Inflammation, Leaky Gut and the Microbiome: New Directions in Nursing

Depression results in more absenteeism than almost any other physical disorder and costs employers more than US$51 billion per year in absenteeism and lost productivity, not including high medical and pharmaceutical bills. Depression in children is the greatest form of disability, and prescription numbers are growing.

While many think of their brain as the organ in charge of their mental health, your gut may actually play a far more significant role. Our immune systems are largely housed in the gut, and the interplay between the gut and the brain is a complex and profoundly important relationship. It is time to expand our horizons about mental health, and health promotion professionals are perfectly positioned to do this.

 

The Genomics Revolution – A New Frontier for Nursing

The genomic revolution opens a new window into why our bodies do what they do and how we can work with our genes rather than against them. As science advances, we will be able to prescribe diets, lifestyles, drugs, and nutrients that help maximize genetic potential and minimize the risk of disease and obesity.

 

Microbiome Medicine: The Next Revolution in Modern Wellness

The microbiome is the community of trillions of bacteria that live in your digestive tract and elsewhere throughout your body. Collectively weighing about three pounds — the same weight as our brain — these bacteria outnumber our human cells by a factor of about 10 to 1. Not only do our bacteria outnumber us, but their genes also outnumber our genes — by a factor of 150 to 1. In many ways, their genes have more of an influence over our day-to-day life than our own genes do.

When your microbiome is balanced, you have good digestion, clear thinking, a balanced mood, and glowing overall health. When your microbiome goes out of balance, however, you risk such symptoms as brain fog, depression, anxiety, bad skin, insomnia, obesity, diabetes, and cancer.