In 2018, I formalized my practice, becoming a Certified Professional Coach in Transformational Coaching via Leadership That Works and earning my PCC from the International Coaching Federation. I count Wendy DeRosa and Guthrie Sayen as the mentors who shaped my path. Cheryl Evangelos has guided me for over twenty years; she is still the one I call when I need to return to my own internal truth.
These days, I practice from my home in Camden, working both in person and over Zoom. And when the right group comes along, I’m happy to travel. I'm also a journalist by training, an audiobook narrator, and I've spent years leading circles, including an eighteen-month book group that never once ran out of things to say. Somewhere along the way, I wrote a novel too.
Healing Roots
My grandmother was a healing practitioner. I watched her, as a girl, ease pain from the body and the heart, both at once. She never called it magic. She called it attention.
“Attention to energy, to what's out of balance, to a person's own power to heal themselves.”
I learned before I had words for it: the body knows things the mind hasn't caught up to yet. That knowing has become the seed of everything I do now.
The Theatre Years
For twenty years, theatre was my practice, though I didn't call it that then. I performed and directed and taught throughout the state both as an artist-in residence with MAC and Deus Ex Machina, my theatre production business. In that realm, the real work of transformation is the exchange between audience and actors. It is a kind of energy work, a symbiosis of trust and vulnerability. Learning to read a person's energy, to feel where the truth lives within them: that training carries into every session I lead today.
Training and Practice Today
~ RL, CPC, Ohio