Maureen enjoys collaborating with event coordinators to customize her talks. Below is a list of the most requested topics.

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1. Connection as Medicine 

How to engage with life when your mind and body hurts 

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Maureen McCarthy has an illness: a rare, fatal lung disease that brings with it pain, suffocation, and death, yet she is one of the most vibrant and alive people on the planet. In rewiring her brain’s relationship to pain and stress, she experienced a deep realization that connection is her most potent medicine.

 

Maureen shares the tools she developed to strengthen the neural pathways of joy and connection. These tools apply to both the physical pain of an illness and the social and emotional pain of stress that arise when we worry about money, what other people think, or our own self worth.

 

Maureen shares the story of how she navigates the warning system of pain and transforms it into a messaging system that helps her upgrade her brain. This creates an upward spiral of connection—to herself, to others, and to the world with which she interacts.

 

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2. Give Them a Peace of Your Mind 

Rewire Your Brain to Use Stress as a Design Tool for Life

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Our brains crave human connection, as much as food and air, yet other people trigger most of our stress. As the control centers of our lives, our brains determine our action and reaction to everything; from how other people behave to the thoughts that keep us up at night.

 

Maureen McCarthy has a rare, fatal lung disease and has been on oxygen a third of her life. For her, a messy mind is a luxury; she can’t breathe when her brain believes there’s a problem.

 

Rather than avoiding stress, she teaches you how to use the very thing that triggers you to access what matters most. From that place you engage your creative energy to custom design a meaningful life, which calms the mind, builds trust and resilience, and feeds the connection you crave.

 

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3. The Relationship Revolution

The Future Is Now: It is collaborative and custom designed

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Our culture was designed for a life that was smaller, simpler and shorter. Yet, complexity and uncertainty are only getting louder. The world is not waiting for you, the revolution has begun, and it is both exhilarating and daunting!

 

We have more freedom, more options and more possibilities than ever before. The relationship revolution demands a reorientation to relationship beyond you or me. With a fatal, genetic lung disease, Maureen McCarthy stayed alive by overcoming her brain’s fear of uncertainty and boldly custom designing her life through the lens of collaboration: co-creating healthy relationships with other people, her health, her work and her mind.

 

Maureen teaches you how to engage the neural circuitry of connection to calm the anxiety, strengthen what matters most, and become wiser together.

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