After graduating from University of Minnesota in french and music, and with a longtime interest in psychology and psychotherapy, I became very interested in holistic healing and spirituality. I attended The Avalon Institute (Jungian & Archetypal Psychology), Boulder, CO, 1988–89, then Regent University in Denver. I attended 2 semesters in the Master of Counseling Psychology program. My spiritual leanings led me to great writers and teachers: Krishnamurti, Alan Watts, Alice Bailey, and Marianne Williamson, just to name a very few. I trained, then practiced massage for 23 years. I learned how our emotional overloads represented themselves in our muscles and organs. I became very re-engaged in natural medicine and energy healing when my mom died of cancer at the young age of 59. I knew that modern medicine was not addressing unresolved emotional issues, and that I had the other side of hers. Lots of reading, lots of church services, meditations, prayers, two marriages, two divorces, counseling, searching, tear-shedding, talks with great friends, and numerous trainings and studies, have brought me to this moment.