Dr Karen Wolfe is an Australian physician, Health Coach, Author and International Speaker. Born in Sydney Australia, Karen graduated from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and completed a Masters Degree in Psychology from National University in California.
Her vision is to integrate the best of Western and the west of complementary approaches to wellness. She is the author of seven books which include Medicine from the Inside Out and Create the Body Your Soul Desires. She is an international speaker on wellness and nutrition and she is a regular lecturer to the public as well as hospital groups, women’s conferences and professional organizations throughout USA and abroad. She cares that her audiences get it, so her presentations often include demonstrations and participation that bring personal meaning to her audience members.
Karen lives in Mission Viejo, California with her American husband, daughter and two dogs.
Keynote Topics
Is Stress Making You Fat? – How to Break the Stress-Fat Connection and Reclaim Your Energy
It’s a fact: stress makes you fat. Chronically elevated levels of stress hormones not only stimulate appetite but also encourage intra-abdominal fat storage that can lead to serious illness. How you respond to stress determines your appetite, body composition and overall fitness level. Dr Wolfe teaches you how to re-balance your mind and body resulting in lasting changes in your total state of being.
Create the Body Your Soul Desires
Are you tired of the diet craziness? Based on her book, Create the Body Your Soul Desires: The Girlfriends’ Guide to Body Image, Weight, Food, Energy and Sexuality, Dr. Wolfe gives women a whole new integrated way to manage their relationship to their bodies and re-claim their power. Dr. Wolfe advocates a female-friendly way to connect and cooperate with our bodies, using commonsense tools that women (especially girlfriends!) can relate to. Free from guilt and blame, discover the soul-stirring joy of a body that helps you life your life to the fullest!
What Your Doctor Does Not Know About Nutritional Medicine May be Harming You
Medical evidence is now showing us that the solution to chronic degenerative disease lies in the nutrition of the cell. This presentation delivers the scientific evidence about insulin resistance and inflammation in the body that creates diabetes, heart disease and many other chronic illnesses.
Natural Prozac: Secrets to Releasing Your Body’s Own Antidepressants
Evidence shows the costly toll modern living takes on our health. Irregular sleep patterns, a sedentary lifestyle, even the air we breathe are all factors in the depletion of the brain chemicals. This presentation gives an understanding of the lifestyle factors that can release the brains natural antidepressants.
Balancing Work and Life for Optimal Living
A recent study of more than 50,000 employees from a variety of manufacturing and service organizations found that two out of every five employees are dissatisfied with the balance between their work and their personal lives. Dr. Wolfe’s presentation on work/life balance is designed to help participants make conscious choices to improve all dimensions of their health and well-being: physical, mental, emotional, social, vocational, and spiritual. Participants will see their lives in a different light, open their minds to new ways of thinking, and adapt behaviors that will not only improve their health, but will help them to achieve their personal and professional goals.
Essentials for Soulful Leadership
Leadership is different than management. It entails communicating your vision of the future and involving others to create a culture around that vision. It is the art of getting people to move together toward a goal they don’t yet see. Dr Wolfe has done just that. She leads a group of around 500 people based on her vision of health and wellness and teaches us the seven qualities of effective leadership.
Tired of being Tired? – How to Outsmart Fatigue
Work. Kids. Cooking. Cleaning. Caring for aging parents. No wonder we are exhausted..and it doesn’t have to do with the clock! Mental and emotional stress, in addition to being direct causes of fatigue, can also be indirect causes of your inability to get a full night’s sleep. That is why an estimated 50 percent of American adults are chronically sleep deprived. This presentation teaches you eight energizing strategies for lifelong vitality that will dramatically change your life.
Listening to the Female Heart – The Whole Truth About Women and Heart Health
It’s more important than ever before for women to listen to their hearts, and learn that body-wise, heart disease in women shows up differently than in men. In addition, there is truly a connection between matters of the heart and the heart muscle. Dr. Wolfe goes into the unique aspects of heart disease in women – understanding, avoiding and surviving it – as well as the emotional and spiritual aspects. She reveals the research that tells us the powerful role family, friends, faith and forgiveness play in our health and healing, and gives us tools for thriving, not just surviving.
From Stress to Strength: Options for Optimal Living
Stress shows up in expected and unexpected ways. It’s not an option. It just is. It can be good. It can feel difficult. It can be joyful. Learning to help yourself not only cope, but ease through it into joy and balance is the ultimate outcome. Explore the options for relief from stress-related dis-ease, as well as ideas for coping on a day-to-day basis with the stuff of life to avoid stress-related discomfort. Learn how to get in balance in order to prevent the harmful effects that stress can have on your health and all aspects of your life and transform stress into strength.
Top Ten Tips for Successful Aging : The Antioxidant Advantage
What determines how well we age? How can we maintain optimal physical and mental strength throughout later life? Rather than looking at aging in terms of expected disease and decline, Dr. Wolfe explores the life-affirming role of nutrition, exercise, stress reduction, productive work, self-care and service to others.
Alternative Medicine : Hope or Hype?
Like trains on two tracks, conventional medicine and alternative medicine appear to be missing a connection. Patients are seeking new treatments to the tune of $18 billion, and they’re not telling their physicians. Dr. Wolfe explains the current research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and shows you how to integrate all of our healing choices for optimal health.
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Testimonials
Above and Beyond Expectations
I chose this session just by chance, but it made this day more than worthwhile. Karen Wolfe stands tall among progressive doctors like, Weil, Dossey, Myss, Northrup, Siegal and others. -Marsha M. Lang, MS, JD Co-chair, Winning with Wellness
The employees evaluated your presentation as excellent and very valuable. I overheard many of them express excitement about your presentation. -Betty Howard Benefits Analyst – Compensation and Benefits Automobile Club of Southern California
Your audience loved you and your professional style along with your delightful sense of humor. On behalf of Richland College and the entire staff, we want to say we felt your presentation was nothing short of sensational. You are so knowledgeable and your suggestions were very well received by everyone. - Mitzi Werther, Director Emeritus Program
Lasting Impressions
You had a great impact and left a lasting impression on everyone who attended your sessions. It was a tremendous honor and pleasure to work with you. I believe many people were opened to a new way of thinking. Because of you this was the largest Health Forum that Riverview Hospital has ever held. -Jackie Bredl-Dietrich, D.S, CHES Outreach Education/Health Promotion Coordinator
It is with great appreciation that I write this letter of thanks to you for being our Keynote speaker at Adirondack Medical Center’s Health Symposium. Your presentation was very well received and I know you have made a lasting impact on many. We loved how down to earth you are and your ability to connect with people. You are a pleasure to work with form the planning stage on through the event. -Jessica Darney Buehler, Program Manager, Women’s Health Summit – Fargo
I just wanted to say “THANK YOU” for coming to Milton Hershey School! Your presentation was excellent. I was glad you did not just stand there and tell us what, when to eat. It was a pleasure to meet you. -Cyndi Anderson Benefits Assistant Milton Hershey School
Insightful and Practical
As a hypnotherapist with a background in foods and nutrition who teaches weight release classes based on the mind-body connection, I was delighted to discover The Conscious Body Method at a workshop given by Dr. Karen Wolfe. The insights and information provided in, “Create the Body Your Soul Desires”, resonates with everything that I feel supports women to lovingly release undesired weight. My participants have found this book to be warm, practical, and user-friendly. This multi-faceted approach supports women with a multitude of valuable tools to consciously create healthy gradual weight loss without feelings of deprivation. The Friendship Solution improved the quality of the communication process in our buddy system. Total strangers developed strong bonds of mutual respect and support through the use of the provided script. I am deeply grateful for this beautiful book written directly from the hearts of two women dedicated to their own healing process which they have so generously shared. -Marla Goldberg, certified Hypnotherapist, Intuitive
Client List
Women’s Health Summit, Bismarck, North Dakota
Women’s Health Summit, Fargo, North Dakota
The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine
The National Wellness Institute
Red Mountain Spa, Utah
Adirondack Medical Center, NY
Federally Employed Women
Queensland Institute of Technology, Australia
Highmark, Inc
St. Joseph’s Health System
St Charles Medical Center, Bend, Oregon
Franciscan Skemp Healthcare
Kimberly-Clark
YMCA of the USA
Huntington Beach Chamber of Commerce
American Dietetic Association
YMCA of Greater Charlotte
Association of YMCA Professionals. Kentucky Chapter
Waukesha Memorial Hospital
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan
City of Brea
City of Santa Ana
Illinois Women’s Health Conference
American Association of Critical Care Nursing
American Heart Association
Association for Worksite Health Promotion
Astra Australia
Australian Association of Hospitals
Automobile Club of California (AAA)
Boeing
Carl Karcher
Chevron Petroleum
City of Glendale
Dairy Council of California
Huntington Beach Union High School District
Los Angeles Wellness Council
Orange County Wellness Coalition
Marriott International
Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America
Mitsubishi Motors Credit
Occupational Health Nurses Association
Riverview Hospital
Saddleback Memorial Medical Center
Orange County Trasportation Authority
University of Southern Indiana
Speaking of Women’s Health
Go Red for Women Luncheon, Bryan Texas
College of DuPage, Illinois
Health Net of California
The Medical Center, Bowling Green, Kentucky
Gunderson Lutheran Medical FOundation, Wisconsin








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