Having children was a very conscious decision on my part, as I lost my mom to cancer when I was 10. I knew the heartache of losing my mom at a young age and didn’t want to subject my children to that.
The loss of my mom propelled me into a lifelong journey of learning and healing. In college I became interested in the mind-body connection and majored in Psychology and minored in Biology. A graduate degree in Cognitive Psychology led to a career as a User Experience Researcher at Microsoft. While working for Microsoft I was left with debilitating jaw pain as a result of a car accident. The Western-trained doctors said I’d have to live with this pain for the rest of my life. I sought out alternative treatments and have been pain-free ever since. After recovering from the car accident, I changed my career focus and got a graduate degree in Clinical Psychology. During this time I was married and had a child. When our daughter was one, we got pregnant again, but I miscarried. From that time onward I wasn’t able to get pregnant. The Western-trained doctors couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t getting pregnant. Two years later I found Walter Makichen, an energy medicine practitioner. It was Walter and energy medicine that ultimately helped me get pregnant again. Now I have two beautiful daughters!
I found tremendous value in energy medicine and furthered my training at the Academy of Intuition Medicine® where the graduate director encouraged me to create a fertility program. The Energetic Fertility Method™ (EFM) grew from my academic training and personal experience with infertility. It’s a way to help people bring themselves into wholeness for fertility using simple energy medicine tools and techniques.
I started my business in 2011 as a way to offer people going through life transitions a complementary method to work through their issues.
Through my own journey with unexplained secondary infertility, parenting, and the general ins-and-outs of life, I synthesize my formal education with what I’ve learned in the “classroom” of life in order to share it with others. Through my one-on-one sessions, classes, workshops, guest speaking opportunities, and radio show I empower my audience with tools and information to align their body, mind and spirit for wholeness.
Currently, my business is at a vital point of growth. My book, The Energetic Fertility Method™: Tools for a Healthy Conception and Beyond, for which I won a publishing prize, is coming out later this year. At the end of last year I trained the first two practitioners in the art of EFM and started a biweekly radio show. I offer two online courses, one with a more general focus and the second on EFM. I’m in the process of redesigning the EFM online course to correspond more directly with my book. This redesign includes a new website for the course. In order to incorporate many of these changes that are occurring in my business, I’m rebranding and redesigning my website to better reflect what I offer. In January 2016, I hired two assistants to help with marketing outreach as well as other aspects of my business so that I can dedicate my time to my programs and clients.
I know the heartache of wanting a child and having it just out of reach. EFM offers hope to those on that path.
Thank you for your consideration in helping me expand my ability to help the over 48.5 million couples worldwide unable to have a child each year.
This loan will help me to:
1) Rebrand and redesign my website adding focus to my radio show and forthcoming book ($2,000).
2) Automate the Energetic Fertility Method online course ($2,500), allowing me to offer the course more frequently and reach more people.
3) Cover the cost of two assistants for 4 months ($5,500). The assistants will help run different aspects of the business including marketing and outreach.