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About Me

Unique Life Experiences

  • 5 adopted children, two from foster care
  • Lost my oldest child to leukemia
  • Difficult divorce
  • Successful remarriage
  • Reunited with runaway daughter after 2 years
  • Dealt with children who were addicted
  • Single mother in my fifties, with no financial or emotional support from their father
  • Numerous financial uncertainties

Qualifications and Professional Experiences

  • Certified Associate Christian Life Coach through the International Christian Coaching Institute
  • Mature follower of Christ – born again at 13
  • 26 years as an ESL teacher, ESL teacher coach, and ESL Facilitator. This involved teaching children who didn’t speak English. It taught me how to listen deeply. Additionally, it provided an understanding of several cultures.
  • Former volunteer peer coach with Team Hope. This organization is part of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. I coached parents of runaways walking through the experience of having a missing child.
  • BA in Elementary Education and Music Performance (Bethany College), Master’s of Educational Technology (Mid-America Nazarene University)