When the Shift Hits the Fan is Lisa Reagan's personal story of working with hundreds of families through a nonprofit organization for over a decade to answer the question, "Why is finding resources and support for making wellness choices for our families such a challenge in our culture?"

When the Shift Hits the Fan points out the fact that every academic study on American adults shows they are less happy as individuals when they become parents. Why is this and how can this change?

In this discussion between Lisa Reagan and Rebecca Thompson, YOU will learn how:

• A parent's commitment to discovering the answer to this question can be a hero's journey to the mountaintop where it is possible to see the "big picture", or the current global shift from an unsustainable world to a sustainable world.
• How, from this "big picture place" which has been explored and explained by organizations like the Institute for Noetic Science, a parent will understand the shift to be the world waking up and the importance of our individual actions in this shift.
• And most importantly, upon returning from the hero's journey with the treasured grasp of the "big picture", parents wake up to the wisdom that they can create the world they want to live in every day, in their own homes, in the relationships with their partner and children.
• Tool: Brain Stoplight As a practicing holistic family consultant, Thompson shows how we apply our hero's journey treasure of awareness to our day to day interactions, and how, amazingly, we are able to navigate a shift in our personal paradigms with practical techniques that shift us out of the misery of the old paradigm and to a place of empowered and joyful families, and the world to a more peaceful planet!

Lisa Reagan is associate editor for Pathways to Family Wellness magazine, parent representative on the board of directors for the Holistic Pediatric Association, and cofounder and past president of Families for Conscious Living. She is a certified Reiki Master Teacher and lives with her family on their farm in Toano, Virginia.