OVER 40 AND FABULOUS! TOP 10 CONTEST WINNERS
“I feel centered, and no matter what happens to me, I am steady inside. I have happiness from within.”
Ursula Lentine
Bio: Ursula is a certified Pranic Healer, a practitioner of Self Leadership Therapy and has founded several programs for youth like Mountain Wisdom’s First Rites of Passage Experience and Girls to Women teen camp. What is the best thing you’ve learned about yourself since turning 40? I would say the fact that I design my life now. Everything about my world is because of my consciousness. I have peace. It takes work, but it’s worth it. I am dedicated to my spiritual practices. I feel centered, and no matter what happens to me, I am steady inside. I have happiness from within. I am my only limitation. I may have learned these things the hard way, but it’s mine now; I can own it!
What do you consider to be your best accomplishment? I am living my purpose; that is my greatest accomplishment. It’s to the degree that each day the choices I make are deliberate and along with the spiritual truths as I know them. An effective way that purpose is expressed is through Pranic Healing®, which is a refined energy healing for emotional, physical and mental issues that are beyond what the eye can see. I also facilitate subconscious healing work at Internal Family Systems. Witnessing people’s lives change is truly the best job in the world.
What is your favorite way to work out? I absolutely love dirt bike riding and I go nearly every Monday. My runner-ups are West Coast Swing dancing, Red Hot Yoga and straight-up, hardcore yard work.
Who are the experts/professionals that help you be your best self? My teachers: Master Glenn Mendoza, MD, Master Marilag Mendoza, Dr. Valerie Davis, Master Choa Kok Sui and Dr. Dick Schwartz. Pranic Healing® and Internal Family Systems are the two models I use in my practice as a healing therapist. The children and young adults I have the privilege of serving at the Spiritual Living Center on Sundays definitely call me to be my best self.
What is your favorite way to give back to your community? Twin Hearts Meditation is a meditation group I started four years ago. It is an incredible gift to witness the personal growth of others and lives changing in such profound ways.
“Being able to raise ovarian cancer awareness though social, fundraising and educational events across the state is so rewarding.”
Doug Barron
Bio: Doug is the executive director of the Georgia Ovarian Cancer Alliance, an organization that spreads awareness and education about ovarian cancer throughout Georgia and the Southeastern United States.
What is the best thing you’ve learned about yourself since turning 40? Not to take myself so seriously, to quit trying to impress everybody [and] to be comfortable with who I am and just be myself.
What do you consider to be your best accomplishment? Finding a career I truly love. After 30-plus years in the financial services industry and following the death of my mother-in-law, Wendy Sheron, to ovarian cancer, I became the executive director of the Georgia Ovarian Cancer Alliance. Being able to raise ovarian cancer awareness though social, fundraising and educational events across the state in her memory is so rewarding.
What is your favorite book? “For One More Day” by Mitch Albom. It focuses on the importance of living in the now and making the time and effort to recognize and appreciate the people who are always there for you.
What is your favorite way to work out? Swimming. I have been a competitive swimmer for over 45 years and still compete in the Atlanta Adult Summer Swim League.
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