Have you been doing all the work... therapy, dating apps, manifesting, vision boards...and STILL can't find the love your soul knows you're meant for? You're not broken. You're not doing anything wrong. According to ancient Vedic astrology, there's a cosmic reason your soulmate hasn't shown up yet... and once you understand it, everything changes.

In this episode of Living in the Miracle Zone, #1 New York Times bestselling author Marci Shimoff (Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul, Happy for No Reason, The Secret) sits down with master Vedic astrologer and relationship coach Carol Allen, a woman who has helped thousands of people find their soulmate, save their marriages, and finally understand why some relationships work effortlessly and others feel impossible.

Carol reveals the timing wisdom from ancient Vedic astrology (the astrology of East India) that explains WHY you might be in a "season of loneliness" right now — and how to know when your golden season of love is coming. Unlike Western astrology, Vedic astrology specializes in cosmic timing and karmic cycles, giving practical guidance about when love will arrive.

She also shares her newest discovery: how the birth order in your family is one of the single biggest predictors of whether your relationship will last (research shows up to 50% of relationship success or failure comes down to this one factor).

Marci shares her own stories of how Vedic astrology accurately predicted her #1 New York Times bestseller, her career rest cycles, and even The Secret coming into her life... years before they happened.

If you've been wondering why love feels so hard, why your relationships keep ending, or why you can't seem to find "the one," this conversation will give you the cosmic clarity you've been searching for.

🎁 FREE GIFT FROM MARCI:
Download "Manifest a Life of Miracles: 4 Steps to Living in the Miracle Zone"
👉 https://themiraclezonebook.com

✨ ABOUT CAROL ALLEN:
Carol Allen is a master Vedic astrologer and relationship coach who has counseled thousands of people on love, compatibility, and cosmic timing. She has been featured in countless publications and is known for blending ancient Vedic wisdom with modern relationship coaching and birth order research.
Connect with Carol: https://soulmatestars.com

✨ ABOUT MARCI SHIMOFF:
Marci Shimoff is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, transformational teacher, and expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love. She is the woman's face of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series (over 16 million copies sold in 33 languages), a featured teacher in The Secret, and the founder of Your Year of Miracles. Marci has taught and inspired more than a million people worldwide.

💛 CONNECT WITH MARCI:
Website: https://marcishimoff.com
Your Year of Miracles: https://youryearofmiracles.com
Instagram: @marcishimoff
Facebook: Marci Shimoff

Chapters:
00:00 What you'll learn in this conversation
01:25 Meet Carol Allen: Master Vedic astrologer
04:44 The biggest miracle: Living your dharma
09:41 How Vedic astrology predicted Marci's #1 bestseller
12:34 Why this works for relationships
14:45 Seasons of love vs. seasons of loneliness
19:21 The birth order discovery (50% predictor of relationship success)
24:21 Oldest, middle & youngest children explained
35:28 Carol's true story: Finding love at 71
40:23 Your next right step

What if the root cause of your pain, stress, and emotional suffering isn't what you think and the solution is already inside you?

In this episode of Living in the Miracle Zone, Marci Shimoff sits down with Master Mingtong Gu... internationally renowned teacher of Wisdom Healing Qigong, founder of The Chi Center and Southwest Sanctuary in New Mexico, and bestselling author of Coming Home to Embodied Awakening. .

In this conversation, you'll discover:
✅ Why disconnection from the body is the #1 root cause of ALL suffering
✅ The simple hands-on practice you can do right now to return to wholeness
✅ How Wisdom Healing Qigong healed Ming Tong's own incurable asthma and scoliosis
✅ Why healing isn't about fixing... it's about coming home to your body
✅ How to move from living in your head to living in the miracle zone
✅ What to do when discomfort arises (and why running from it keeps you stuck)
✅ The choice that unlocks deep healing on every level — body, mind, and spiritMing Tong shares a live guided practice in this episode. Place your hands on your heart and experience it yourself.

🎁 FREE GIFT FROM MARCI:
Download "Manifest a Life of Miracles: 4 Steps to Living in the Miracle Zone"
👉 https://themiraclezonebook.com

🌀 About Master Mingtong Gu:
Master Mingtong Gu is an internationally renowned teacher of Wisdom Healing Qigong and founder of The Chi Center and Southwest Sanctuary in New Mexico. His mission is to cultivate a worldwide community that lives, leads, and loves from fully embodied wisdom — especially critical in this age of AI and accelerating disconnection.

📖 Get his new book: Coming Home to Embodied Awakening
👉 mingtonggu.com/book

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction — Master Mingtong Gu & the Miracle Zone
2:08 Who Is Master Mingtong Gu?
4:00 Ming Tong's Personal Journey — Adoption, Asthma & Scoliosis
7:29 Discovering Wisdom Healing Qigong
9:26 Finding Qigong in Ohio (Not China!)
10:36 Coming Home to Embodied Awakening — The New Book
13:22 The #1 Problem: Mind-Body Disconnection
16:48 The 18 Inches From Head to Heart
22:24 Simple Steps to Reconnect Right Now
23:00 Guided Practice — Hands on Your Heart
29:14 What to Do When Discomfort Arises
31:15 The Choice of Connection
34:46 The Doorway Into the Miracle Zone
37:22 How to Find Ming Tong

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💛 CONNECT WITH MARCI:
Website: https://marcishimoff.com
Your Year of Miracles: https://youryearofmiracles.com
Instagram: @marcishimoff
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Are you exhausted from saying yes when you mean no? Are you tired of putting everyone else's needs ahead of your own — and quietly watching your own life slip away? You're not alone. People-pleasing isn't kindness. It's a survival strategy that's costing you your truth, your health, and your joy.

In this episode of Living in the Miracle Zone, #1 New York Times bestselling author Marci Shimoff (Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul, Happy for No Reason, The Secret) sits down with master coach and Georgetown University faculty member Julie Reisler to talk about what happens when you finally stop performing the role of the "perfect woman" and start listening to your own intuition instead.

Julie shares her story of being a recovering people-pleaser whose life looked perfect on the outside — loving family, marriage, two young kids — while she was secretly battling a sugar addiction, hidden shame, and a feeling that she was living someone else's life. Until one night at 3:33 AM, her body finally said: ENOUGH!

🌟IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN:
- Why people-pleasing is actually a trauma response (not a personality trait)
- How to recognize when you're abandoning yourself for someone else's approval
- Julie's 3:33 AM wake-up call moment that changed everything
- The connection between people-pleasing and food addiction
- Why your body keeps the score when you ignore your truth
- How to start trusting your intuition (even if you've ignored it for years)
- A simple hand-on-heart practice that calms anxiety in seconds (backed by HeartMath research)
- How to make aligned decisions when fear is screaming at you
- Why "doing what's right for you is right for everyone"

🎁 FREE GIFT FROM MARCI:
Download "Manifest a Life of Miracles: 4 Steps to Living in the Miracle Zone"
👉 https://themiraclezonebook.com

⏰ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 The hidden truth most people-pleasers can't see
01:10 Welcome to the Miracle Zone
03:09 Julie's story: People-pleasing, sugar, and hidden shame
06:42 The "looks fine on the outside" trap
09:55 The 3:33 AM wake-up call that changed everything
13:45 Following intuition into a brand new life
17:38 Julie's daily practice for living from the soul
21:11 How to actually trust your intuition
26:00 The hand-on-heart practice (and the HeartMath science behind it)
34:24 Julie's parting message

✨ ABOUT JULIE REISLER:
Julie Reisler is a master certified coach, two-time TEDx speaker, faculty member at Georgetown University, and the founder of the Intuitive Life Designer Coach Certification. She's the host of the "You-est You" podcast (4M+ downloads in 175 countries) and the author of "Get a PhD in You." Julie helps high-achieving women stop performing and start living from their soul.
Connect with Julie: https://juliereisler.com

✨ ABOUT MARCI SHIMOFF:
Marci Shimoff is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, transformational teacher, and expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love. She is the woman's face of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series (over 16 million copies sold in 33 languages), a featured teacher in The Secret, and the founder of Your Year of Miracles. Marci has taught and inspired more than a million people worldwide.

💛 CONNECT WITH MARCI:
Website: https://marcishimoff.com
Your Year of Miracles: https://youryearofmiracles.com
Instagram: @marcishimoff
Facebook: Marci Shimoff

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