While my professional path began in graduate school many years ago, my work has continued to be inspired and shaped by many great teachers, authors, researchers, and light workers. These are a few of the individuals who have transformed my understanding of the world, the human brain, and how to best support radical healing and joyful living. Below you will find a brief excerpt about who they are and some of their works that have shaped me. You can learn additional information about each individual by clicking on their name. Please note that this list is not comprehensive.

Dr, Joe Dispenza

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
Dr Joe Dispenza is an international lecturer, researcher, corporate consultant, author, and educator who has been invited to speak in more than 33 countries on six continents.

As a lecturer and educator, he is driven by the conviction that each of us has the potential for greatness and unlimited abilities. In his easy-to-understand, encouraging, and compassionate style, he has educated thousands of people, detailing how they can rewire their brains and recondition their bodies to make lasting changes.

Jon Kabat Zinn

Founder of MBSR
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he founded its world-renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic (in 1979), and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society (in 1995).  He retired from his positions at the medical center in 2000. The Center for Mindfulness has been under the leadership of Dr. Saki Santorelli since that time, and during those years, it has grown remarkably and its programs have become more and more influential both in the US and internationally.  

Anodea Judith

Eastern Body Western Mind
Dr. Anodea Judith is a dynamic speaker and workshop leader who touches your heart and holds it in eloquent metaphors from beginning to end. Whether it’s about healing the human the soul, awakening the life force, creating your life on purpose, or addressing the world situation, her talks and pictorial power points bring the entire audience into a deep realm of being and purpose and leave them inspired to make change. In short, she takes you into the realm of the sacred, for indeed, the sacred is at the center of Anodea’s purpose, and the center of everything she does.

Eckhart Tolle

A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle is widely recognized as one of the most inspiring and visionary spiritual teachers in the world today. At the age of 29 an intense inner transformation radically changed the course of his life. He devoted the next several years to understanding, integrating, and deepening that transformation.

His profound, yet simple teachings focus on the significance and power of Presence, the awakened state of consciousness, which transcends ego and discursive thinking.

Michael Singer

The Untethered Soul
As the author of The Untethered Soul and The Surrender Experiment, Michael Singer had a deep inner awakening in 1971 while working on his doctorate in economics and went into seclusion to focus on yoga and meditation.

In 1975, he founded Temple of the Universe, a now long-established yoga and meditation center where people of any religion or set of beliefs can come together to experience inner peace. Michael has made major contributions in the areas of business, education, healthcare, and environmental protection.

Dr. Sue Morter

The Energy Codes
International speaker, Master of Bio-Energetic Medicine and Quantum Field visionary, Dr. Sue utilizes the embodiment of high frequency energy patterns to activate full human potential. Through her seminars, retreats and presentations she illuminates the relationships of quantum thoughts and energy medicine; the elevation of human consciousness and life mastery.

Dr. Sue’s visionary model and techniques ignite an entirely new approach to living in creative genius and personal freedom through capturing and enhancing high-frequency energy patterns in the body. She draws from her experience as a doctor for over 30 years, inspiration from a life-changing awakening during meditation, and her personal passion for cracking the code of life itself. Her greatest joy is sharing her discoveries with others.

Bessel Van Der Kolk

The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in Healing
Bessel van der Kolk MD spends his career studying how children and adults adapt to traumatic experiences, and has translated emerging findings from neuroscience and attachment research to develop and study a range of treatments for traumatic stress in children and adults.

Drawing on more than thirty years of research and clinical practice, Bessel van der Kolk shows that the terror and isolation at the core of trauma literally reshape both brain and body. New insights into our survival instincts explain why traumatized people experience incomprehensible anxiety and numbing and intolerable rage, and how trauma affects their capacity to concentrate, to remember, to form trusting relationships, and even to feel at home in their own bodies. Having lost the sense of control of themselves and frustrated by failed therapies, they often fear that they are damaged beyond repair.

Aron Beck

Father of Cognitive Psychology
Dr. Beck developed Cognitive Therapy (CT), also known as Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), in the 1960s. The original Center for Cognitive Therapy at Penn served as an important training ground for cognitive behavior therapists. Still, Dr. Beck and his daughter, Dr. Judith Beck, had long wished to establish a new clinical setting that would provide state-of-the-art psychotherapy and training opportunities for professionals worldwide and at all levels. In 1994, they established the Beck Institute at its present site in Bala Cynwyd, in suburban Philadelphia.

Byron Katie

The Work
The Work is meditation. It is a method of inquiry born directly out of Byron Katie’s experience. This practice allows you to access the wisdom that always exists within you. Byron Katie founded The Work after a personal transformation of her own where she shifted from the depths of depression to a state of awakening.