founding The Institute of Healing Arts and Sciences, offering 2 and 4-year programs approved by the Connecticut Commissioner of the Department of Higher Education. With students flying in from Canada, Australia, the Caribbean, and all over the USA, the 3rd and 4 year students were permitted to do medical internships in their state or country. MDs, PhDs, and others in the medical community attended, as well as those wanting to become healers. Our work was so successful, hospitals opened research possibilities, so I began the process of founding The Institute of Energy Medicine Research. th As a highly successful psychotherapist seeing 42 patients a week, with a six-month wait list, I started to see a pattern of personality styles, each presenting with specific disorders and/or diseases. Asking friends who were specialist MDs if they saw a pattern in personality within their patients, they insisted my findings were coincidental. Knowing it wasn’t, I went on to study 9 modalities of integrative health, 5 of which were in Eastern Medicine. Consequently, I created my own method, the W.I.S.E. Method, combining what I believed to be the best of each with my own experiences from my practice. After requests from my waiting list, asking me to teach them what I know while they were waiting to work with me, I started a 6-week program which eventually led to my founding The Institute of Healing Arts and Sciences, offering 2 and 4-year programs approved by the Connecticut Commissioner of the Department of Higher Education. With students flying in from Canada, Australia, the Caribbean, and all over the USA, the 3rd and 4 year students were permitted to do medical th internships in their state or country. MDs, PhDs, and others in the medical community attended, as well as those wanting to become healers. Our work was so successful, hospitals opened research possibilities, so I began the process of founding The Institute of Energy Medicine Research.
Once you take a risk, once you own your willingness to stand out, keep going as opportunities call out to you, often far beyond what you imagined. I was later asked to become Co- Chair of the Advisory Board of a multi-million-dollar grant overseeing research projects, given grant funding by the National Institutes of Health to research my work, and asked to become a Clinical Instructor at the medical school. There is no limit to what doors open when we risk claiming our leadership, our calling, and our passion. After 19 years leading the school, which took me from an entrepreneur to a small businesswoman with a large payroll and writing several books, it was time to move beyond those visions and open to the next phase of my journey as well as my own transformational process. I became an Executive & Life Coach/Confidante/Mentor, guiding visionary leaders through transition so they too could see it not as a terrifying period of change but as a time of renewal for personal and professional health and success. Working with that level of client meant combining my years as a psychotherapist, my research and dissertation on The Psycho/Spiritual Causality of Physical Disease and Disorders, my experiences within the companies I had founded, my understanding of the connection between spiritual beliefs, world-views, and the stress they can cause that necessitates the development of emotional intelligence and spiritual growth in order to achieve or sustain physical health as we walk the journey of visionary leaders. Leadership isn’t just about position or career, it’s about who you are willing to become. Page 81
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