"My life vision is to help create a world where everyone stands joyfully in responsibility for their own wholeness, and celebrates the wholeness of others.

I do this through coaching, speaking, writing, teaching, and leading fun adventures."

Facts about my training:

I am a dedicated, certified life coach who has spent my life honing my skills as an active listener and engaged partner in helping people clarify their goals and desires, and charting a path to make them reality.

I received my initial coaching certification through the Coach Training Alliance in Boulder, Colorado, and have gone on to study extensively with the Christopher Howard Companies' Leadership and Coaching Academy, learning amazing tools and techniques for making permanent, accelerated change.

I hold the following certifications:

CTACC
Master Results Coach
Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Advanced Neurological Repatterning (TM)
Trainer of NLP and Neurological Repatterning (TM)
Ericksonian Hypnosis
Master Hypnosis
Performance Consultant
TOP Facilitator and Strategic Planner

I am also the Official Guide to Women's Issues at SelfGrowth.com, the Internet's largest self-help site.  (Click to visit that site)

Click on this player to hear my radio interview on EarthWise Radio 
Lakeport, CA Sept. 5, 2008 (54 minutes)

I also:

Am entirely enthusiastic about helping other women negotiate their own changes with honesty, integrity, grace and happiness.

Am the mother of two grown young men, and have successfully negotiated the transition from marriage to deep friendship and extended familyhood with their father, Wil, after figuring out at 45 that I'm a Lesbian. (OK, so I'm a little slow sometimes...)

From 1983 to 1993, Wil and I built, ran and sold a nationally renowned timber frame design/construction business, growing from the two of us to 36 employees, designing and building custom houses throughout the US and Canada.

Have always pursued learning in all forms, and have received training and certification in facilitation, communication, time management, project management, and myriad other interpersonal and business topics. 

Have been the Executive Director of an international non-profit industry group, licensed pilot, carpenter/contractor,  builder of sheep wagons &  other small homes on wheels, Montana licensed backcountry outfitter, Chief Financial Officer of a nationally known home building firm, member of various non-profit Boards of Directors, forest service lookout, process facilitator, strategic planner, artist, hiker and gardener, and devoted friend. 

Recently spent two years helping my parents deal with my father's illness and passing, following which I helped my mother make a successful transition to an independent life.

In short, I am familiar with, excited about and stimulated by, the process of re-inventing life to fit changing circumstances and dreams.

I am all about helping people help themselves. I became a personal life coach after realizing that she was being sought out in that capacity by friends and acquaintances, and had a gift of being able to ask the questions that help a person get to the heart of their challenges and move through them. I have studied coaching in depth and have great enthusiasm for continually learning new ideas and methods.  

In addition to bringing me into life coaching, my interest in developing tools to be a hopeful, empowered, healthy, happy, effective human being have led me to deep study and use of success circles/mastermind groups,  Byron Katie's Work and the Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT. (More on Resources page)  

My interest in helping people help themselves will be evident when you visit the Resources page on this website - there are several tools available there which you can use on your own to move yourself forward. If you need help with any of them, or getting started using them, I stand ready to help you; I'm also delighted if you can just pick them up and use them yourself.

I specialize in helping people set and reach personal goals, women and stress, women and business, and women's health issues.

Two of my key values are EXPLORATION and ADVENTURE. I am very excited about and love to investigate new methods of approaching and unlocking the full potential of our minds and spirits, especially when it can be accomplished in a fun and adventurous manner.

Do you want to make changes, and have the willingness to show up and do the personal work that it will take?