Author: Vedette Global Media

Written by Jyothi Devarakonda

Nobody warns you that it’s not the big things that dim you. It’s the quiet, daily adjustments you stopped noticing you were making that starts to change us !!

Maya and Aks had finally made it. After a decade of syncing Google Calendars with the precision of a NASA moon landing and negotiating school pickups like seasoned UN diplomats, they had carved out a full week for themselves. The kids were at their grandparents’ farm, presumably engaged in mud-based warfare and eating their weight in unwashed berries. For the first time in years, the air was silent.This was the trip. Twenty years in the making. A quiet beach. A balcony overlooking endless blue. No alarms, no one yelling “Mum!” every seven minutes.  That first evening, Maya sat outside watching the sky melt into gold. Everything looked exactly as she’d imagined, and yet, she found herself waiting for the rush—that cinematic this-is-it feeling.

It never arrived.

She found herself waiting. For the rush. That this-is-it feeling she’d assumed would simply arrive.

It didn’t.

Her mind wandered instead. Groceries. A forgotten email. A work deliverable her manager had quietly absorbed — she’d smiled with relief and moved on. Why am I thinking about work here? She glanced at Aks. Deeply, almost suspiciously calm. No spontaneous ideas, no ridiculous jokes. Just comfortable. Like a man who’d finally found the off switch to his brain and wasn’t going anywhere near it again.

The next afternoon, a line in a book stopped her:

“The comfort of routine can often disguise the exhaustion of monotony.”

It described something she hadn’t had a name for — and then gave her one. Silent burnout. Not the dramatic kind — no breakdown, no crisis, no moment you can point to and say that’s when it happened. The quiet kind. Built through a thousand small compressions. Every frustration absorbed without complaint. Every time you adjusted your expectations rather than addressed the problem. Every time you made peace with less, so automatically that less started to feel like enough. Suddenly  even when your wish comes true, even then you don’t feel the same high that you thought you would. 

Modern research has mapped what this does to the body. Chronic low-level stress dysregulates cortisol — which in healthy rhythm works alongside dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin, the chemicals behind drive, warmth, and connection. When stress is constant but undramatic, the system doesn’t spike. It flattens.   

That evening, as the sun began its descent, Maya decided to poke the bear.

“Aks,” she said, her voice cutting through the sound of the waves. “Do you feel like something’s missing?”

Aks didn’t flinch. He didn’t deflect. He didn’t even do that thing where he pretends he didn’t hear her so he can finish his beer. He just looked up, and for the first time in days, Maya saw his eyes actually focus on her.

“Yeah,” he said quietly. “I’ve been sitting with that all day.”

“I thought this was the goal,” Maya said, her voice trembling slightly. “No chaos. Just peace. But I don’t feel peace. I feel flat. Like a soda that’s been left open for too long.”

She looked at him, searching for the man who used to argue about philosophy until 3:00 AM. “Do you feel it at work, too?”

Aks leaned back, the wicker chair groaning under the weight of his honesty. “I stopped chasing things, Maya. Projects I would have fought for, ideas I thought were brilliant… I just let them go. I told myself it was ‘maturity.’ I told myself I was being ‘reasonable.’ But looking at this ocean today, I realized I didn’t become a Zen Master. I just stopped expecting things to work out. I’ve been quietly shrinking, and I’ve been calling it ‘coping.’”

“And I’ve been calling it ‘patience,’” Maya added. I thought i have become mature and am in acceptance and bliss, Now i wonder if that was the case why is my body signalling back with back pains, acidity and other annoying and nagging form of discomforts ??

The silence that followed wasn’t the empty silence of the day before; it was heavy and honest. They realized that their bodies had been sending them “system error” messages for years. The 3:00 AM acidity Maya treated with antacids? That was the body’s protest against a life she was swallowing. The recurring headaches Aks blamed on the weather? The fatigue they both blamed on “getting older”?

It wasn’t aging. It was the accumulated cost of surrenders they never stopped to count. They had been treating their symptoms like spam emails, hitting “Delete” before they could even read the subject line.

In that moment, an old concept from Ayurveda—the ancient Indian system of medicine—came to Maya’s mind. Ayurveda suggests that health isn’t just the absence of disease; it’s the presence of Ojas, or vital energy. When we live out of alignment, our Pitta (drive) burns us out, or our Kapha (stability) turns into stagnation. The cure wasn’t a pharmaceutical intervention; it was “living in the body again.” It was laughter that hurt your ribs. It was genuine, messy connection.

“I don’t want to be ‘reasonable’ anymore,” Aks said, a small, lopsided grin finally breaking through his mask of calm. “I think I’d rather be a little bit unreasonable and actually feel something.”

He reached over and took her hand. His palm was a little sweaty, and his grip was a little too tight, but it was there. It was an invitation.

They didn’t solve twenty years of “fine” in one night. There was no magical transformation into twenty-somethings. But the “Delete” button was finally broken. They sat on that balcony and, for the first time in a long time, they didn’t just manage the silence. They lived in it.

The body was never asking to be managed. It was asking to be heard. And as the stars came out over the Mediterranean, Maya and Aks finally started listening.

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Jyothi Devarakonda
Certified Advisor · Leader · Life & Transition Coach · Founder, Guiding Eagle Inc

ICF Accreditation Candidate · 2026

Jyothi didn’t start her journey as a coach — she started by navigating change herself. From leading interior design projects to building a 20+ year career in banking and financial advisory, and then starting over as an immigrant in Canada, she knows firsthand what it means to rebuild from the inside out.

As a certified advisor and leader, she brings both professional rigour and lived experience to her work. Currently completing her ICF accreditation — the gold standard in coaching credentials — she works at the intersection of personal transformation and practical strategy, helping individuals move from self-doubt and survival mode into clarity, confidence, and a life they have consciously chosen.

Along the way, she noticed something that kept showing up: no matter how successful someone looked on the outside, misalignment in even one area of life quietly dimmed everything else. That insight led her to create Guiding Eagle — where she now helps individuals, especially women in transition, step into the fullest, most aligned version of themselves.

Her work is built on aligning four core pillars — space, finance, career, and relationships — because she believes lasting transformation happens when both inner confidence and outer circumstances shift together. Through coaching, workshops, and digital programs, she helps people build lives and help people identify their decision making and acceptance patterns which impacts all areas of our happiness.
Connect with Jyothi –
https://www.guidingeagle.com ; Tel # 587-741-3737

Book a call to start your journey – https://calendar.app.google/UREtBNj6gvFDSGeU8

“When (Jnana) True knowledge guides us, (Dharma) True purpose grounds us , and (Karma) our conscious action follows- life begins to align.

Wes þu, hal, freond!

 That’s ‘Hello, friend’ in Old English. Anglo-Saxon. The language that English began as when it branched away from Proto-Germanic near to 2,000 years ago. It is the foundation upon which our modern language is based, without all the Norman French and Latin mixed in. That comes centuries later.

 Many of the words from Old English survived through to the modern day, most of them changed in some ways. Some of the words survived in their original form, and even perhaps close to their original pronunciation.

 Health is one such word. Wealth is another.

 Before getting to that story, a few interesting things about the Anglo-Saxon people:

• Like nearly all human societies, the Anglo-Saxons had storytellers, known as scops (sounds like shopes), their version of bards
• There was something of a belief that, according to Hana Videen, ‘each Word carries a
  story, an entire history of thought’.
• The word ‘Word’ could have multiple meanings, including “Story’, ‘Word’, or ‘Speech’.
  We still use those meanings today in different contexts.

 With that in mind, there is the word ‘Health’. The suffix on the end of the word, -th (which is this symbol in Old English Þ), means ‘state of’ or ‘condition of’. The first part, heal, means wholeness. Therefore, Health means ‘state of wholeness’ in this old sense. The modern definition is fairly complete, but is not quite the same meaning: ‘a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.’ (W.H.O. definition). For one, it uses state of well-being which is actually the Old English definition of Wealth.

The old definition in Merriam Webster used to be: Health – a state of wholeness in which all the organs of the body function together at 100%, 100% of the time.

 There is no mention of sickness or disease for this definition, and it contains, at the beginning, the original ancient meaning of the word. Second, it defines health as 100% parts, with 100% function. Health is often compared as not being symptomatic, or not feeling sick. Really, it is a state where there are cycles of Ease and Dis-Ease. And Health is present when there are symptoms of feedback and when there are not.

 The limit here is keeping it purely in the body. Purely physical. In the original meaning, Health simply is a state of wholeness.

 With the Merriam Webster can be added parts and function at 100%, each. With the W.H.O., different aspects of life than simply the physical. This is the story of health and how it has grown. This is the history of thought behind the word.

 Health, that is, Wholeness, then is in all aspects of life. In Old English, it was a deeper word. In modern English, it has depth, but requires more explanation to encompass all it really affects.

 Health is whole being physically, with the all the organs (Parts) present and with 100% function keeping them in co-ordination. In chiropractic, it is recognized as the parts of the body being kept in coordinated harmony to adapt to the environment and controlled by signals sent from and received by the brain, adjusted in the spine as necessary to keep the communication and connection free.

 Health is present spiritually – to have a healthy spiritual pursuit. Whether in an organized faith, or a private path, there are parts that function a certain way for each individual and group in coordinated harmony.

 Health is present in mental learning and understanding – parts of learning, the books, knowledge, pursuits, with certain organizational systems for each individual to utilize however needed.

 Business wants a healthy bottom line. Corporation comes from the Latin meaning ‘being in a state of a body’. Corporations and small businesses to solopreneurs have parts in the business, with function. Employees look for healthy work environments in healthy companies with healthy pay.

Healthy financial situations. Parts are accounts. Function is how they behave to achieve financial objectives.

 Healthy social life – clubs, teams, organizations. Leadership roles.

 And also Healthy relationships. Each relationship in life has parts – individuals – involved, with certain function. Whether it be parent-child, spousal, friends, or siblings. Even pets.

 Each of these aspects of Health involves Wholeness. Each aspect involves communication and connection for the function between the parts. Putting all seven of these parts of life together in coordinated harmony, with cycles of Ease and Dis-Ease, is the story of Health, Wholeness.

 From its ancient roots to today, the word Health continues to evolve and influence the lives of the English-speaking world in all its various forms.

 Sien gesunde.

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Dr. Kyle Hulsebus is the Storyteller of Health and Human Potential.

He is an international speaker, writer, educator, and active 3rd generation chiropractor in his family’s practice in Northern Illinois. He is a specialist in the realm of Health and Well-Being, both physically working with the human body and spine, and spiritually and mentally through speaking, educating, and consulting.

He speaks to corporations, groups, and schools on topics of Health and Human Potential. Dr. Kyle takes his background in studying multiple disciplines – including dance, theatre, healthcare, writing, sciences, philosophy, and spiritual traditions – to relate concepts in multiple ways for individuals from all walks of life. He does workshops in tandem with his wife, Dr. Shanti Hulsebus, who is also a chiropractor and master of healing arts.

He is dedicated to educating and empowering others in their health and potential in all areas of life through his stories, articles, and talks in order to shift the paradigm of health from without to within.

His latest project is The 40 Over 40 – a collection of video tips for empowering health in all areas of life after 40 years of age.
He can be found at drkylehulsebus.com and 40over40.com. His chiropractic office can be found at mphulsebus.com.

Written by LindaJoy Benn

There comes a moment in life when you can no longer ignore the quiet voice within. Not the voice of logic, planning, or control… But the deeper knowing — the one that calls you forward without a map. For me, that moment wasn’t a single decision. It has been a lifelong journey of learning to trust, to surrender, and to follow where I am guided — even when it doesn’t make sense.

Today, that path has led me across the United States.

No fixed plan. No certainty of where I will be from one week to the next. Simply a deep trust that I am being guided exactly where I need to be, to meet the people I am meant to meet, and to share the work I am here to bring into the world.

This is what I call living in faith and for me, this is God’s work.

A Life Shaped by Challenge — and Transformation

My journey into healing and consciousness work was not something I chose lightly. It was born through deep personal challenge, emotional pain, and a profound search for meaning.

At a young age, I experienced feelings of rejection, abandonment, and disconnection that shaped my early years. Like many, I searched externally for answers — through relationships, travel, and experiences — yet something deeper remained unresolved.

At 21, I was diagnosed with cancer. That moment became a turning point. Rather than accepting a path of fear, I chose to explore a different way — one that led me into the world of energy, consciousness, and the deeper connection between the mind, body, and spirit.

Through this journey, I came to understand that what we experience physically is often a reflection of deeper emotional and energetic patterns.

And more importantly — that transformation is possible.

Over 30 Years of Deep Healing Work

What began as a personal healing journey evolved into over three decades of professional practice.

I have studied and trained extensively across multiple modalities, including bodywork, energy healing, subconscious reprogramming, and personal development. I’ve worked with thousands of clients, helping them move through burnout, illness, emotional trauma, and life transitions.

Early in my career, I became known as the person people would turn to when they were overwhelmed, stressed, or at breaking point — even within corporate environments. But my work has always gone beyond stress relief. It has been about addressing the root cause — helping people reconnect with themselves, shift their awareness, and access a deeper level of healing and clarity.

Over time, I was introduced to Pellowah — a powerful energy healing modality that would become a core part of my work.

The Power of Pellowah

I trained directly with the founder of Pellowah in 2004, when the modality was first channeled, as part of the initial group of teachers. Since then, I have been teaching Pellowah internationally and was one of the first to bring it to the United States in 2005.

Pellowah is often described as a “radical shift in consciousness” but what I have witnessed over the years goes beyond words. It supports individuals in releasing deep energetic blocks, expanding awareness, and accessing new levels of clarity, alignment, and personal power.

For many, it feels like a reset at a fundamental level — allowing life to reorganize in a more natural, aligned way.

This is why I continue to share it. Not as something to “fix” people — But as a tool to empower them.

A Mission Greater Than the Individual

We are living in a time of global change. More people than ever are questioning their lives, their purpose, and the way they have been living.

What I see every day is not breakdown — It is awakening.

My mission is to support this shift. To help raise the energetic vibration of the planet by guiding individuals back to themselves — to their truth, their clarity, and their inner knowing.

Because when one person shifts, it impacts everything around them, and when enough people shift…

We change the world.

Following the Call Across America

This is what has brought me to the United States once again, not with a rigid plan or fixed schedule — But with a willingness to follow where I am guided.

Some days I know exactly where I am going. Other days, I don’t know where I will be sleeping, and yet, everything continues to unfold with ease.

The right people appear. The right opportunities open. The right conversations happen.

This is what happens when you trust.

An Invitation

As I travel, I am connecting with communities, practitioners, and individuals who feel ready for something deeper.

I offer experiences, workshops, and training in Pellowah for those who are called to explore this work — whether for personal transformation or as a modality to support others.

This is not about convincing anyone.It is about resonance.

If something within you feels activated reading this… That is where your journey begins.

Living in Trust

I don’t have all the answers, but I do have trust.

Trust in the path. Trust in the work. Trust in the people I am here to meet.

And above all, trust that when we follow what we are guided to do — even when it feels uncertain — we are always supported, because sometimes the greatest transformation doesn’t come from knowing the plan…

It comes from having the courage to take the next step anyway.

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LindaJoy Benn is an international healer, trainer, and transformational guide with over 30 years of experience in the natural health and energy space, beginning her healing journey in 1990. She trained directly with the founder of Pellowah in 2004 as part of the first group of teachers and has since shared this powerful modality globally, including introducing it to the United States in 2005.

LindaJoy specializes in supporting individuals and practitioners to shift at the root level — expanding awareness, restoring energy, and reconnecting with their true self. She is currently traveling across the U.S., following her inner guidance to connect with communities and raise consciousness through live experiences, workshops, and training.

http://www.lindabenn.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindabenn/
linda@lindabenn.com

Published: 04-27-2026

 

Written by Michael Teferi

The written word, specifically as it related to the art of poetry has existed for many generations.  My high school, for example, gave me a wonderful version of reality back in 1996, when my classmates and I were taught by our English teacher about the classic and modern poetry authors of the past and present, in addition to the unique Poet Laureates.  Persons, such as Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and our youngest Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, swayed victorious against their proclivities and brought wisdom of the ages through their words and deeds.

Positive Psychology on the other hand, is the scientific stop helping people thrive via human flourishing.  Wonderful ideas such as meaning, purpose, inspiration, character strengths, growth mindset, meditation, happiness, and social anxiety have developed and grown into true science and neuroscience books and scientific studies that resonate with the human condition.  Most importantly, Psychologists have found that people tend to associate themselves with different types of connections when they experience opportunities for learning new things, especially from a particular environment from a standpoint of understanding neuroplasticity.

Fortunately, there exists qualified evidence from Professors, Authors, and Psychologists that provide amazing details of action.  Professors such as Todd Kashdan, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at George Mason University’s Well-Being Laboratory, provide evidential bases for understanding and applying facts and support for scientific theories and methods that help people showcase ideas in the realm of Character Strengths, Social Anxiety, and Curiosity, which give credence and credibility to their work as students across the field of Psychology, especially Positive Psychology, entail opportunities for experiential learning on purpose.

My own experiences have shown me that as a graduate of George Mason University after having been inducted into Psi Chi-The International Honor Society of Psychology and The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi thereafter in March 2012 and April 2012, respectively, and then experiencing the tribute of achieving the Bachelor’s degree of Psychology in May 2012, it is with tremendous pleasure and privilege that such contributions to the field of education provide quality over quantity, strength of conviction, and love for pure, unadulterated wisdom can easily be attributed to why people do what the do and how much you can learn from courses such as The Science of Well-Being/Character Strengths from Todd Kashdan, Ph.D., Psychological Fitness from Dr. Jerome Short, Ph.D.,, and Cross-Cultural Psychology from Eric Shiraev, Ph.D., showcase how we are using processes and practices to improve the way people see themselves in everyday situations that allow others to be better than they can possibly imagine.

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My name is Michael Teferi, I am a BIPOC Poet, Writer, Positive Psychology Coach, Debut Poetry Book Author, & Podcast Host. Please feel free to contact me by email at romanticsinger24@gmail.com, through my Author Website at https://michaelteferi.author-pages.com, and my free TextNow phone number at 571-500-8485.

Written by Matthew Melvin

The Line in the Sand

It was August 2015. I was doing 72 miles per hour on I-495 West in Haverhill, Massachusetts. And honestly, for me, that was slow. There were plenty of days I had pushed past 130.

Then, in a single heartbeat, everything changed.

A Lexus SUV crested an embankment to the east and came barreling across the lanes directly into my path. There was no time to think. No time to react. In that fraction of a second, with metal and glass and consequence rushing toward me, I felt something I had never allowed myself to feel before.

I felt God.

Not as a concept. Not as a Sunday morning ritual. As a force, real, present, and unmistakable, drawing a line in the sand.

You choose. Right now. Your will or Mine.

I knew exactly what my will had looked like. The lying. The cheating. The stealing. The revolving door of the prison system. I knew the road I had been on, and I knew where it ended. What I didn’t know yet, what I was about to discover, was that control had always been an illusion.

God the Father is the only One who is truly in control. And in that moment of near-death clarity, I finally stopped fighting that truth.

The Road Less Traveled

Robert Frost wrote about two roads diverging in a wood. He chose the one less traveled and that, he said, made all the difference.

I chose Jesus. And I went all in.

That meant a complete 180. Not a slight course correction. Not a softer version of my old life with better habits bolted on. A full reversal. Because the road I had been traveling wasn’t just not working. It was destroying everything I claimed to love: my family, my freedom, my future.

I was ready for drastic. I was ready for life-altering. I was tired of the man I had been.

The Furnace

A year after that crash, I was in prison for an offense that dated back to 2009. I spent the majority of my 16-month sentence in solitary confinement.

Most people hear “solitary confinement” and picture suffering. And yes, it is hard in ways that are difficult to put into words. But what they don’t tell you is what can happen when a man is stripped of every distraction, every excuse, every noise he once used to drown out the voice of God.

For me, solitary became a seminary.

I went to every Bible study available to me. I sat and listened to volunteers from Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science, and Scientology. Not because I agreed with all of it, but because I was hungry. Hungry for truth. Hungry for something real. Hungry to understand what I had been running from my entire life.

And I built disciplines. Every single morning, I made my bed. A small act of order in a world that felt entirely out of my control. I fasted. I prayed. I read my Bible. I exercised. Day after day after day.

Those disciplines didn’t just pass the time. They built the man I was becoming.

Learning to Love the Man in the Mirror

Somewhere in those walls, something extraordinary began to happen.

I started to love myself.

Not with arrogance. Not with the false bravado I had worn for years like armor. But with the quiet, settled
peace of a man who had been found and who finally believed he was worth finding.

I forgave myself. And I began to forgive others.

I started working Bill’s 12 Steps, a framework most people associate with AA, but one that applies to any addiction, any compulsion, any place in life where you have handed your power over to something that is slowly killing you. The Steps didn’t make me weak. They made me honest. And honesty, it turns out, is the foundation everything else is built on.

The Question I Ask Every Day

I am a proud Christian man. That is not a title I wear lightly, and it is not a label I use to market myself or make myself look better. It is the core of who I am.

Every single day, in every decision, every relationship, every business move, every conversation, I ask myself one question:

Is this serving God, or is it
serving me?

That question has cost me things. It has required me to say no when my flesh screamed yes. It has slowed me down when I wanted to move fast and cut corners. But it has also built something I never had before:

A life I am not ashamed of.

A family I haven’t abandoned.

A purpose that outlasts me.

The crash on I-495 didn’t just nearly take my life. It gave it back to me. And this time, I’m doing something with it.

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When Matthew Melvin started working at a car dealership in South Burlington, Vermont, he never thought that one mistake would lead to a life-changing stint in prison. Feeling he wasn’t being paid his full commissions on car sales, he made an impulsive decision to get what he felt he was owed. He hatched a badly-thought out plot to steal a car, sell it as his own and keep the profits. However, a basic reference and background check quickly revealed that the vehicle’s title was not in his name, but still belonged to the dealership. He was arrested and sentenced to prison.

While Matthew has taken responsibility for his poor life choices, he believes he has been treated unfairly due to his sexual orientation, religious and political affiliations, and his adult diagnosis of autism. While he and his lawyer argued that his punishment would be best served in a mental health facility, Matt was unfortunately sentenced to 18 months in prison to be served in general population.

Terrified and alone, Matthew began his prison term with the best of intentions—to keep his head down and serve his time as uneventfully as possible. But being a gay, Christian, Trump supporter brought him unwanted and negative attention. He was bullied by cellmates, targeted by gangs and even raped in one facility. The months he was imprisoned felt like decades and there were times he doubted he would make it out alive.

Bullied Behind Bars chronicles Matthew Melvin’s life feeling like an outcast, enduring a lonely and friendless childhood, and being punished for a crime that began with the honorable goal of him just trying to make a living.