Healing through Gratitude: Overcoming Chronic Illness and Loss with Holly Bertone

Send Dr. Li a text here. Please leave your email address if you would like a reply, thanks.In this episode, transformative coach, podcast host and best selling author, Holly Bertone joins Christine to share an inspiring story of resilience and transformation. Listen in as Holly explains how she took a breast cancer and autoimmune diagnosis and created new opportunities to achieve better overall health and relationships with the power of gratitude. Stay tuned to understand how practicing gratitude not only changes your brain chemistry by helping you feel less depressed and tired but also helps boost your immune system, decrease blood pressure and live longer.Holly Bertone is a Certified Natural Health Coach, Certified 6 Phase Meditation Facilitator, #1 Amazon bestselling author, and host of the Gratitude Builds Fortitude Podcast. Holly spent 20 years rising through the ranks of federal government service before a breast cancer and autoimmune diagnosis created an opportunity to combine her background in project management and analytics with solving a different set of problems. These days, she is known as the transformative coach who helps you achieve better physical health, better emotional health, and better relationships with yourself and your loved ones, with the power of gratitude. She has been featured on over 200 TV and radio segments, articles, podcasts, and summits as an expert on gratitude and mindset.Timestamps:•[3:54] Holly shares the heights she had been to athletically, physically, mentally and in her career… and the lows after a breast cancer and autoimmune diagnosis. •[19:28] “Your brain has 80% negative thoughts and 20% Positive thoughts… it's like the Velcro for the negative and the Teflon for the positive.”•[22:04] “When you start to focus on the positive, we start to focus on the gratitude, all of a sudden, the world just starts to change.”•[28:35] Holly on living a life in gratitude: “There is always a way to shift your mindset. It's just a decision. It's not always an easy decision. But it is a simple decision.” For more information on the Make Time for Success podcast, visit: https://www.maketimeforsuccesspodcast.comGain Access to Dr. Christine Li’s Free Resource Library where she offers you 12 downloadable tools and templates to help you bypass the impulse to procrastinate. CLICK HERE NOW TO CLAIM YOUR FREE RESOURCES: https://procrastinationcoach.mykajabi.com/freelibraryTo work with Dr. Li on a weekly basis in her coaching and accountability program, please register for The Success Lab here: https://www.procrastinationcoach.com/labConnect with Us!Dr. Christine LiWebsite: https://www.procrastinationcoach.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/procrastinationcoachInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/procrastinationcoach/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@procrastinationcoachDr. Li’s FREE Focus and Flow worksheet: https://procrastinationcoach.mykajabi.com/podcast-freebie-focus-and-flowHolly Bertone:Website: https://pinkfortitude.mykajabi.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holly.bertone/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pinkfortitude/Podcast: https://academy.pinkfortitude.com/podcast-landing-w