Jeannie

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Jeannie has deeply been interested in sparking the hearts of every person to experience the wholeness, aliveness, and serenity that comes from deeply knowing yourself, fully accepting the lightness and darkness of being human, and feeling free to be your true self.

Born a girl in a family that was hoping for a boy was the start for Jeannie to be very sensitive about the value and worth of herself and the other females in her family. She noticed how people emotionally suffered when they didn't see, accept, and honor all of who they were and identified with their challenge to feel self-love and acceptance. Through her own experience, she realized that the consequence of feeling unworthy was losing a sense of herself.

Jeannie set out on a journey to develop her inner confidence and support others in developing theirs. Showing appreciation and respect, accepting each person's humanness, being inclusive, and giving that 'extra' attention were all practices that were very important to her. What she learned is that when she followed these practices within and for herself, giving to others came from a natural, free-flowing place.

In her career, Jeannie went into teaching and found that her heart went out to those children who had the most difficulty. Her greatest satisfaction came from nurturing them to feel good and watching them blossom in all aspects of their lives when there was that foundation of confidence. As a teacher and later as a consultant, counselor, and university lecturer, she became an expert in working with children who had special behavioral needs and supported parents, teachers and student teachers in bringing out their best. Throughout this time, within the educational system and in private practice, she counseled children one-on-one as well as their parents, led parent-training seminars, and conducted workshops with teaching staffs; the central element of all of this work being self-esteem as she knew its power.

She made the decision to return to school as she knew that counseling was the field that she wanted to pursue. Everything fell into place for her to be accepted by the University of Toronto for a doctoral program in applied psychology. A natural focus was human development and change because it had already become a passion. As well as giving her a larger context of understanding, she met interesting people and faced the challenges of a grueling program which continued to build a sense of value within herself and what she felt she could offer others.

Simultaneously, Jeannie attended many experiential workshops and training seminars, particularly in Transactional Analysis, Psychodrama, and Reiki; read hundreds of books about self-development; and took numerous courses on such topics as Psychosynthesis, Educational Kinesthology, and Focusing; open to any technique that she felt would support her work. During this time of personal growth, she met many like-minded friends along the way to support her in essentially supporting herself.

Jeannie also married and experienced the challenges of staying self-connected within an intimate relationship. She learned at a deeper level about self-betrayal, disenchantment, and a sense of losing herself. Even with all of the awareness and skills that she had acquired from her personal growth work and educational background, she realized that there were greater depths for her in the path to claiming her life as her own.

Her discovery of coaching in 2000 brought everything together for her in a structure that fit her values like a glove. She loved the wholeness, aliveness, passion, and optimism of coaching. A health-based model, clients were the expert on their own lives, not the coach. Within this model, she saw how people stretched and expanded and set out to acquire this set of skills to integrate with the rest of what she knew both professionally and personally. Becoming certified by the Coaches Training Institute, she started a private practice based on the co-active model which is very experiential and process-based. Simultaneously, she became a participant in the Co-Active Space Leadership program, a year-long, intensive personal and professional growth program based in California.

During this time, she made a major life transition by leaving her marriage. On one of the experiential activities in the leadership program, she was requested to jump from a 25-foot redwood tree (harnessed J) while declaring a goal for herself. She shouted, "It's MY life!" The commitment was made and another level of the journey to wholeness began. She made a fresh start in all aspects of her life - financially, geographically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

In her practice, Jeannie leads groups and works one-on-one with an international clientele. She has also been interviewed by national magazines like Homemaker's, has been published in Esteem Magazine, and is a contributing author of '101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life'.

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What People Say

Here is what some people say about my coaching and the Claim Your Life Process:

Coaching really helps to provide balance and insight in my life. Your thoughts and encouragement really help to allow me to understand that my life is exactly what I make it. Through coaching, I have been enlightened and reassured that I can strive for excellence - and can reach it., because I am worthy of it. I love the empowering aspect of really owning who I am; it makes me feel like achievement is easily within my grasp.
Communications writer/small business owner (female)
Jeannie was strongly recommended to me when it became clear that a number of challenges from my early years were increasingly holding me back from accomplishing my life goals. Through her sound advice, excellent listening skills, and our work together on identifying and nuturing my core values, I have made enormous progress on all fronts. I am not only much happier in my personal life, but I am a much more effective leader in my management position at a financial institution.
Financial Executive (male)