For as long as I can remember I have been in awe of and a passionate lover of life. Being deeply connected to Nature and animals from an early age, while other girls were playing with their Barbies, I was climbing trees, taking my dog for a bike ride to the nearest vacant lot, or digging in the dirt. I have always loved freedom and adventure, and that is exactly how I see life...as an adventure.

If we are all creating our lives anyway, why not do it consciously and create the life we really want? This is what intrigues me the most today.

How can we make the most of being a Spiritual Being having a human experience?

I never could believe that God would create such a beautiful place if we weren't supposed to be happy and enjoy it. Although the motto around my house was "Life is doing what you don't want to do," I could never completely accept that. When I got out of college with a degree in Psychology (which qualified me to pump gas or be a bank teller), I baulked at taking a regular job. I just couldn't make myself say yes to any of the positions that were offered, so I ended up, through synchronicity, taking a job with a company called Moveable Feast. It was a young, inovative company that made unusual sandwiches, salads, etc. and sold them through girls like myself, independent contractors with long hippie skirts carrying wicker baskets. I soon got the top 'route' and was making more money in two and a half hours a day then any of my full-time working friends. It had proved my theory that there was more than one way to make ends meet...and have fun doing it. I never went back to looking for a corporate job. It was a major turning point in my life.

Unfortunately, the intellectual stimulation wasn't high and I soon found myself 'surfing' through various jobs: modeling, working at Antique stores, doing accounting work, making jewlery, owning a plant installation company, working for a photographer developing a tee-shirt line. Finally I got into outside sales and soon hooked up with a wonderful company: highend furniture and accessories, wonderful people and clients, and a commission check that came on time, was bountiful and didn't bounce! I was with them for eleven years, and then went into business with my husband, expanding an Antique store into a custom interior design showroom with our own workshop and fourty-five employees. We could design, build and furnish your home, or sell you a napkin. Our specialty was Antique French Country reproduction, hand carved and gorgeous. That lasted ten years and then, after twenty three years being together, my husband and I separated and eventually divorced. What had been great for business had not been great for our marriage. I chose an amicable settlement and walked away. After a few years of recovering energetically, physically and spiritulaly, (which is still ongoing) and doing consulting work, I started to get interested in doing something more with my life again. I had taken up creative writing and loved it, and yet it seemed like a long time venture before I would be making money. The isolation of it didn't appeal either. Then, I met a woman at the dog park. We became friends. One day I asked her advice about where I might go next in my life. She was a Life Coach, and after a couple of sessions, she thought I'd be well suited as a Life Coach. I agreed to check it out. It seemed to be a perfect melding of everything I loved: being an entrepreneur, involved in personal development, deeply connecting with people, learning and growing, and facillitating others to do the same. Felt good to me. Plus the training was some of the best personal development work I'd done....and I'd done a lot.

So what do I bring to my coaching clients? A new awareness of the importance of focus. A lot of people (myself included until recently) have an idea that 'choosing is loosing' WHERE nid= that by picking one thing to concentrate on, the rest of the options and opportunities are lost forever (definitely not the case!). Without focus, you can waste a lot of time and never accomplish what you might. We also need to focus on who we really are: a spiritual being having a human experience. The truth is we can have, do or be anything that we want. We are incredibly powerful, naturally creative, resourceful and whole. We just need to act from there, believe it to be true. And accept that our purpose is to live in joy, to have fun, whatever that means for us, because that is how we are fulfilled. When we are full we can give back, and fully receive. That's what it's all about, giving our unique talents and gifts and receiving from others. It's all about love. Don't you just love it?

My diversified background includes a BA in Psychology from UCLA, interest in the paranormal and metaphysics, worldwide travel, a successful career in sales and multiple entrepreneurial venues, co-owning a custom home interior design store, and writing literary fiction. I am a certified Co-Active Life Coach with Coaches Training Institute, a Lift Shift and Wealth Shift Coach with XL Results Foundation and a member of The International Coaching Federation. My company is registered as a Social Enterprise with Xl Results Foundation and is part of World Wide Wealth Foundation. I consider myself a creator and a lover of life.

Some of my dream projects are: to create a Good News Network that highlights positive things people are doing world wide. I love to raise awareness and initiate action on Environmental issues. I love to inspire people to fall in love with Nature's beautiful Diversity, be moved to live in harmony with it. I love to bring people back in touch with their inate joy so they'd have no choice but to fall madly in love with themselves, with others and the world.