Biography

I have been writing since I was a child. I’ve published more than 50 articles in magazines and newspapers and authored seven books on natural medicine, including The Natural Medicine Guide to Autism and Natural Medicine First Aid Remedies (see Books/writing for the others). My work has been included in poetry, prayer, and travel-writing anthologies and I am the editor of the anthologies Audacious Aging and Goddess Shift: Women Leading for a Change.

In 1997, a miniature horse named Pegasus started me on the path to creating the Animal Messenger Sanctuary, a safe haven for farm animals. My book What the Animals Taught Me: Stories of Love and Healing from a Farm Animal Sanctuary tells the story of the sheep, donkeys, and wild animals and birds who made the sanctuary their home.

My animal communication and energy healing practice, Energy Healing for Animals, grew out of a lifetime of connection with animals and years of working with the animals on the sanctuary. Along with animal communication, I use Healing Touch for Animals® (HTA), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT, or tapping), and other energy medicine modalities. Energy medicine rebalances and strengthens the energy system; supports the animal’s innate ability to heal; and helps with injury, illness, pain, trauma, behavioral issues, surgery recovery, disease prevention, and end-of-life care. I treat and communicate with cats, dogs, horses, sheep, donkeys, and any other creatures who need me.

Since 1993, I have run Angel Editing Services, an editing and writing consulting business specializing in nonfiction books, with a particular focus on psychospirituality, natural medicine, and other alternative thought.

Originally from Philadelphia, I went to high school in the Virgin Islands, college in New Hampshire and Wisconsin (earning a BS in dance therapy from UW-Madison), traveled the world, and moved every year for a decade or so. The sanctuary and I now reside in the Sierra foothills in northern California.

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