Welcome

In the 1990s, I was an international newsroom journalist (Tokyo, SE Asia, London, Seattle) when I felt a strong call to give it all up. I was being called to something bigger, but what? ​

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My career began to unravel. It shattered into a million pieces. I had to go on a journey. I had to find out who I truly was.

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What followed were years of self-exploration. Everything I had defined as mine was taken away. I had to start from scratch and build. But build what? Who was I?

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I first explored my mystical side, and for years studied tarot, shamanism and past lives. I write all about this in Water, my fourth novel. I started to do readings for people using tarot. Today, I estimate I’ve given 8,000 plus such readings for people all over the world.

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Slowly, I started writing fiction. Slowly, I remembered visual art. I used to win awards for my art as a child but hadn’t touched it in more than a decade. I started to paint again. 

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I started teaching writing. Students came up to me after class and asked for one-on-one writing coaching. A book coaching business was born. Today I have helped thousands of people learn to write. I have clients from Singapore to Seattle, writers of healing memoir, magical realism, self-help books, and film scripts. Clients have been featured in the Financial Times and the New York Times and have won major national awards.

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Throughout my writing, art, and coaching, I use a powerful intuition and my healing connection to spirit. 

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Today, as a novelist, visual artist, and coach, I live by the core values of creativity, authenticity, purpose, and contribution. My five novels: Earth, Air, Fire Water, Ether are about one woman in search of her mystical purpose. The first four are published and have won Independent Publishers awards. Read more about them here. A middle grade novel called Blue has a London publisher and is coming out in Jan. 2025. Read more about Blue here. 

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​As a visual artist, I built a yurt art studio in the woods for my 50th birthday. I see the use of color and texture as a sacred act, as I paint in acrylics and watercolors. I'm working on several series now, including creating a tarot deck, and a painting series called Bruised Goddess. 

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