MY STORY
BRAIN BODY BALANCE
Frustrated by the limits of talk therapy, we discovered that true healing happens at the unconscious brain-body level, where trauma and grief are deeply rooted. Using simple techniques, even children can rewire neural pathways, release pain, and create lasting transformation.
After becoming a widow and facing profound grief, I turned once again to these tools and my faith for healing. Now, I’m committed to teaching these life-changing skills to others.
University of Illinois Clinical Social Work
Worked in mental hospital, mental health center, sexual abuse and eating disorder clinic
Private Practice: Accord Psychologica
There Had to be a Better Way…
I have no memory of ‘wishing upon a star’; my dreams could not stretch that far. My childhood wish was more basic — I wished for safety and peace at home. Instead, I sponged up the family turmoil and felt responsible for gluing the familytogether.
My daily task at four years old was to sit in the wood-slatted chair beside my mom’s sickbed. In the background, I could hear the gleeful sounds of my sister and the neighborhood kids at play.
“Your prayers keep me alive. You are my happiness.” I froze and did not dare ask to leave.
Instead, I sponged up the family turmoil and felt responsible for gluing our family together.
Try as I might, our family shattered. Dad left home physically. Mom left emotionally. A seed of determination sprouted at that early age: “There had to be a better way.” With fixed determination, it became my life’s mission. I would do my life differently.
Fast forward a few decades. With two toddlers and a wee newborn in tow, what I feared the most… became my life. History repeated itself in spite of my carefully orchestrated efforts to create a ‘Brady Bunch’ dream. My sponge-and-glue approach failed. Shocked to the core with no prior warning, my home shattered and left me with few options. I had no choice but to find a way for us to survive.
After the initial shock, once more I was determined. My mantra, “There has to be a better way,” played over and over in my thoughts. I juggled the kids, started graduate school, read dozens of self-help books, attended seminars, and practiced my faith in search of answers. I became an expert on information, yet inside I remained shattered.
Traditional talk therapy work fed the kids, but I felt like an impostor. Being a well-trained traditional psychotherapist was not enough. It seemed like I was helping my clients cut the weeds off at ground level without ever really touching the roots. I was impatient with the modest change in my own life as well as in my clients’ lives. I dreamed of a better way. I longed for change to be fast, easy, and lasting.
This low point became a springboard to heights I never dreamed possible — for my life and for my clients’ lives. I dragged my initially dissenting, Jungian, behaviorally trained psychologist husband, Noble, in search of answers beyond our traditional training.
The day my last major generational root of pain was set free, my racing thoughts stopped almost instantly. I literally pinched myself to see if I was still on the planet. At first, this newfound peace felt void, empty — and the quiet felt strange… as if peace meant I didn’t care. I was so internally quiet I could ‘hear’ impressions clearly. “I thought you dreamed of peace in the midst of life’s storms.” God’s whisper was loud and clear. I was home, present — the place of pervasive peace. It was like a butterfly bursting out of a cocoon… to soar free!
Brain Feng Shui techniques were created from Neurolinguistic Programming, Energy Psychology, Eye Movement Desensitization, Kinesiology, Touch for Health, Neuro-Emotional Technique, the Acupuncture Meridian System, Scriptures, and much more.
Amazing results are experienced with trauma, phobia, panic, grief, moods, sleep, stress, chronic pain, headaches, memory, and overall health. It’s like deleting viruses from your life’s computer — setting the program free to start fresh. You can’t do the techniques and stay the same. You are empowered with tools for life to delete the stress effects on your brain and body.
