Bestselling author Gabrielle Bernstein, environmental medicine expert Richard Ash, M.D., and work-life balance pioneer Tevis Trower recently joined Rewire Me founder Rose Caiola and about 100 guests for a panel discussion and celebration commemorating the launch of Rewire Me’s website and virtual community.

Meeting face to face for the first time in many cases, Rewire Me staff, contributors, and supporters connected in a new way: the good, old-fashioned hug.

Panelists Bernstein, Ash, and Trower each shared their Rewire Me moment—the transformational instant when they realized how they could live a better life and help others do the same. They also answered audience questions and led the group in several meditation/self-awareness exercises.

“Rewire Me is about expressing, sharing, embracing, and living with compassion and mindfulness,” said Caiola. “How gratifying it was to see people doing just that at our launch celebration. Now the challenge is to extend that circle as far as technology and the human spirit will take us.”