For as long as I can remember, I've been interested in what allows people to flourish, what makes it possible to experience greater peace, healthier relationships, and a more meaningful life. When I work with other people, I always begin by looking at myself.

 

Ironically, my own relationship with myself wasn't always an easy one.

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As a young adult, my mind was busier than I liked, and I often struggled to find that peace. Meditation settled my mind and often brought a sense of peace, but it was always temporary. I was puzzled as to why the field of Psychology didn’t integrate this capacity of the mind to settle, get present and enjoy life more. While I was originally a journalist, I began searching for the link between Psychology and Spirituality. After getting a master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology and researching the field thoroughly, I was convinced that a genuine link between our psychological and spiritual lives had yet to be discovered.  I went on to get a Ph.D in Narrative Psychology, and planned to work with the healing power of story, which merged my love of writing and of healing people. And it was then that I accidentally found the link that I had been searching for.

 

About thirty years ago, while struggling with a significant personal decision, I attended a seminar led by George and Linda Pransky. I arrived feeling skeptical. What they were describing didn't fit into anything I had learned through years of psychological training. It pointed to something much simpler and more profound. After spending several days with them, however, I realized from my own inner experience that a discovery had been made that provides the link between our psychological lives and our spiritual evolution. It was called the Three Principles – a discovery of 3 principles that, like gravity, pre-exist us. This discovery had been made in the early 1970’s by a man named Sydney Banks.

 

I wanted to understand it more deeply.

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After receiving further training with George and Linda, I was invited to join their staff, where I worked for 4 years. I also had the great good fortune to be mentored directly
by Sydney Banks in that time.

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Those years gave me the opportunity to not simply study this understanding intellectually, but to immerse myself in it. To see it lived, shared, and applied with people facing every imaginable kind of challenge.

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And, perhaps most importantly, to see what it revealed in my own life.

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Instead of feeling like I was constantly managing or working on my mind, I found myself living more naturally in the present. I had a quieter mind, a greater sense of well-being, and a deep realization that the peace I'd been searching for had never been something I needed to create.

 

As my relationship with myself changed, so did every other relationship in my life.

 

Over the past three decades, I've had the privilege of sharing this understanding with individuals, couples, leaders, and organizations. Throughout this time, I've seen that beneath people's unique circumstances, there is something beautifully universal. When you begin to see how your experience is being created from within, your mind naturally settles. Fresh thought emerges. New possibilities become visible. And change often unfolds with far less effort than you ever imagined.

 

Today my work is grounded in the Three Principles behind all psychological functioning. It is also grounded in a deep respect for the innate wisdom, resilience, and well-being that already exist within every person.