As part of my personal and professional commitment
to life-long learning,I graduated from two 
top-notch coach training programs, Coach University 
and Coachville, and I receive ongoing education 
and support. Currently I am a Yuen Method 
Practitioner-in-training. 

 
Workshops and classes are thrilling to me, 
and I attend as many as possible. I'm also 
an avid reader and am always Googling some 
strange thing or another. Drives my kids crazy 
that I have to look EVERYTHING up on the web...


I've owned and operated three successful 
small businesses, including a home day care 
where I took care of 4 babies under the age
of 18 months (yep, all at the same time),
a house cleaning/postpartum care service,
and this business here.

 
For fun I spend time with my family, 
hike in the breathtakingly beautiful 
Rocky Mountains,take salsa dancing lessons, 
write my blog, read voraciously, talk for 
hours with friends, and listen to all 
kinds of music. I also volunteer as a friendly 
visitor for a dear elderly woman, and participate 
in Restorative Justice community circles.

  
My two fantastic kids (I'm so objective ...)
were both born at home -- my son is proudly
serving in the US Coast Guard, and my daughter 
is a freshman who lives with me full time.


If there is anything you want to know
that I did not mention here, just ask!

I'm so glad you asked these important questions.
  
I'll do my best to clear up any confusion.

 
First, energy work.  Energy can simply be thought of 
as the life force in you - the same force that makes 
the flowers come up in the spring and the leaves 
drop in the autumn.  It animates us and taps us 
into the natural rhythm within and around us.  
 
For the sake of discussion, let's think of this 
energy as streaming through our bodies, 
like rivers down a mountain.  Sometimes, 
for reasons that make sense to our minds 
at the time, we make a decision to dam up 
one of those rivers.  Then the territory 
downstream starts to dry up.  After a while, 
we forget what it was like to have energy flow 
through that part of our body or mind.  
Waste builds up and doesn't have a way out, 
and nutrients can't get in.  
 
The energy work I do involves calling your system's 
attention to the dam it created, and asking it if 
perhaps it would like to restore the flow to that 
territory. If it chooses to restore the flow, 
you will feel an increase in clarity around 
the topic that is related to that territory.
 
Maybe an example would be good here.  Let's say that 
at one point in time, your mind decided that it was 
better not to know certain things.  Lots of our minds 
make that decision when we are kids - when our parents 
are in charge of us, what we know can actually become 
a liability, because unless they happen to agree with it, 
we may be punished for our awareness or the desires 
it sparks in us.  
 
So our minds, taking care of us as best they could, 
blocked off the energy flow to the third eye - the chakra 
in the middle of our forehead, the center that rules 
our inner sight - and with it, our intuition.  
With that territory all dried up, you will not 
be able to get any sense of your direction, 
your next step, or where to start making changes.  
you will feel as though your inner vision is blocked.  
And it is!
 
Rather than imposing a vision on you from outside, 
telling you what to see, I prefer to invite your 
system to restore the flow and bring all of its 
parts back in service.  As we move along in that 
process, your own inner clarity will be restored, 
and you will see clearly again.
 
I or a therapist or some other professional could 
set up a whole external system of plans for you 
to follow, and you may experience some temporary 
relief by doing what we say. But in my opinion, 
that's not authentically yours, and therefore is 
not sustainable.  

If you like, we could work together on a plan and 
a gridwork to tide you over until your energy flows 
are restored and you once again have access to your 
own wisdom and desires in each moment. 
 
Know that my ultimate goal would be to help you to 
feel your own guidance again, and then release the 
artificial structure we invented like you would 
a crutch after your leg has healed.
 
The purpose of the energy work is to repair the 
underlying imbalance that has led to the confusion 
you feel.  The beauty of this rather than a 
psychotherapeutic approach is that we don't need 
to hash over your past in order to release it.  
Change can happen much more quickly and much more 
comfortably for you. 
 
You don't need to leave this moment, go back 
into your past, remember and then cry about 
whatever it was, and then use will power to try 
to forget it.  The work I do simply invites 
your system to restore the flow of energy, 
and the energy promptly cleanses away the residues 
of memories and old habits, and brings new life 
and vitality to the stagnated areas.
 
Much of my work takes place at a non-verbal level, 
because the energy moves so much faster than we 
can describe in words.   While someone is telling 
me their story, I am listening for the underlying 
beliefs.  Sometimes telling the story helps to 
release the underlying energy, but it is by 
no means necessary in every case. We can make 
great strides without getting into the nitty 
gritty details. 

I know it seems kind of 'out there' to be talking 
about stuff like this, which is why I invited you 
to come in to experience a session and see
how it feels.  If you came away from our session 
feeling better, it was probably because some flow 
had been restored. Feeling better is the first step 
toward acting 'better'.
  
We take it one step at a time.   We're not going to 
blow up the dam and flood the entire valley in 
one session!  The action will follow the feeling 
in its own time and way.  

My own experience from receiving this work is that 
when action happens this way, it feels effortless 
and natural, and does not involve force or will power.  
and being the lazy sort, I really like that!
 
And sometimes it happens that when we experience 
something as bizarre as this work, our minds 
jump right on it and try to negate what we are 
feeling because we can't understand how or why 
it happened, and it makes no logical sense.  
the mind tries to talk us out of what we feel, 
or tell us that what we feel is not as important 
as what it tells us to do. So although we may 
leave a session feeling great, soon doubt and 
even ridicule can raise their voices and question 
what the point of THAT was!  But over time, 
the good feelings become so strong that the doubts 
no longer enter the ring to fight.
 
Ultimately, what I hope you will experience 
from our work together is a relaxation of the 
pressure you've been feeling to 'get it all right' 
once and for all.  I'd hope for you to feel 
more of a sense of playfulness about the 
whole thing: letting your desires flow freely, 
allowing what you want to change and evolve, 
and enjoying the whole game.  A major step 
on that road involves feeling better.  
The more we feel better, the more we begin 
to reverse the habits that have kept us stuck 
feeling not good enough.
 
I hope this email has helped.  In the end, 
only you can decide which route you'd prefer 
to take to your destination. I do think all roads 
lead to the same place eventually, so there's 
not a wrong choice.  I hope you will simply 
choose what feels the best to you, and allow 
yourself the freedom to change paths if you wish 
later on down the road.  
 
If you decide to try therapy or meds or whatever 
other options you may be considering, I can still
work with you alongside those interventions 
if you wish.  Based on the last sentence of your 
email, where you mentioned that you get paralyzed 
when too much is broken around you, the first thing 
I would start with if you came for a session is 
clearing out the sense of overwhelm and relieving 
the pressure you seem to be feeling to get it all 
together at once.    

I hope I answered the essence of your questions.

Please let me know if there's anything else 
I can do for you ....
 
:)k