It all started when…

I’ve always liked to accomplish things. When I was in the military, I won awards. I excelled in academia, graduating magna cum laude. I ran a 1/2 marathon in Germany, hiked down the Grand Canyon, and back-packed up the Rocky Mountains. And when not on two feet I could be found on two wheels or four legs. Riding my bicycle for miles on end or riding my horse on the trail, I was typically a woman in motion. I have traveled to nearly two dozen countries and I speak varying degrees of four languages. I was a ‘type A’ personality in that I was about achievement and accomplishment. I enjoyed looking at the next thing and had little sense of what it meant to truly live in the present.

For many years my life joyously focused on intellectual challenge, new activities, the reward of accomplishment, and the triumph of overcoming obstacles. Everything had its place Until…

…my life was confronted with something that exceeded any ability I had to overcome. Until… I was met with a challenge so comprehensive that I could not turn to my will or my intellect. Until… I could not rely on my ‘accomplishment’ personality traits because the only way forward was through surrender and the discovery of new traits within myself. Traits that led to ‘experience, transformation, transmutation, and evolution’.

Many years ago the vehicle I was driving was struck by another motorist resulting in a traumatic four complete rolls of my vehicle (at 70 mph) after which I ended upside down, strapped in by the seat belt, with smells of gasoline, something burning, glass shards everywhere, and blood pouring down my face. “What happened?”, I said to myself trying to process where I was and what had happened. The engine was still running and I suddenly became fearful that my little SUV might explode. Let me tell you, those minutes of processing were pure trauma. Then I heard people shouting, “Are you okay? Can you hear me? We’re gonna get you out of there. Just hang on. Can you hear us?” (These voices were motorists who had witnessed the accident, who stopped to help before the police & ambulance arrived. I remain grateful for their courage to this day.)

Sirens, and helicopters, and people shouting, “Is she alive”?

Extraction followed by being strapped onto a spinal board all the while the EMT’s saying, “Don’t move. Don’t move your head, okay? Can you hear us? Are you breathing? Just don’t move your head, use your eyes. You’re going to be okay, but just don’t move. We’re going to do every thing to help you. Just stay still. We’re going to get you to the hospital.”

I learned later that the helicopter was actually a news helicopter. The accident was so dramatic that traffic stopped or slowed on both sides of a major highway. My vehicle had completed that final 4th roll upside down, which must have been quite a sight.

That was nearly 2 decades ago now and on that day my life was altered. My journey from that day, to today, has been one of twists and turns. A near death experience (NDE) is something that cannot quite be explained. But the experience is life-changing on every level. Ultimately in the midst of one of those loud, crashing, glass-shattering rolls, in the midst of the chaos: I CHOSE.

I CHOSE to live. And I continue to CHOOSE again & again. I choose to find the ways, the teachings, the teachers, and the practices that will allow me to LIVE A GOOD LIFE.

I have learned from some amazing people. I have become educated (not informed, but educated) in a more expansive understanding of health, wellbeing, medicine,and healing. I have also become educated about the vast and unfolding fields of pharmacological/pharmaceutical/nutraceutical/bioceutical/phytoceutical as essential to the healing process. Helping my clients incorporates the broader concept of WHOLENESS and therefore is an individualized process.

Wholeness is implicated in the importance of Homeostasis. Homeostasis is dependent on your ability to bring your:

1) Mind 2) Body 3) Emotions 4) Spiritual self 5) Energies - all into BALANCE. Each plays a powerful role in how you feel and how you heal.

Understanding healing from a fuller perspective requires ongoing education. I have also incorporated the field of neuroscience with the actual functioning of the brain & mind in the determination to heal, or as an elemental component, in the goal to improve one’s overall quality of life.

That accident still lives in my body, but I don’t live in that accident. There is a difference. I live with daily pain. Some days are better than others. And I still have some really difficult days. What has been required has been a resolute determination to overcome some of the after effects, but I do CHOOSE -each & every day. I choose the quality of my life. And what I have learned, the inner resources that I have cultivated, the skills I have strengthened, and the gifts of this journey are in service to my clients as they confront their own decision-points to improve their quality of life.

I help through what I know, from experience. To be sure, it’s different for each person. Each person’s story and journey is all part of the tapestry of health & wellbeing. Health & wellbeing is part of mental health, physical health, emotional health, spiritual health, and energetic wellbeing.

Every person has those moments when one feels absolutely slammed by a life event. It might be a divorce, job loss, depression, economic crisis, business had to be shuttered, a death of a beloved, natural disaster, personal loss, health crisis, the process of aging, fear, uncertainty, accident, spiritual awakening, boredom, or something else. Moments like these might be the provocation that brings you to your choice-point.

What are you going to choose? And how can I help?

WHAT I OFFER HERE AT HEALTH & WELLBEING WITH BETH:

I offer programs both online and in-person. I offer training, education, and coaching in a range of disciplines. I offer spiritual mentoring which is a lovely synthesis of so much of my life along with a tremendous breadth of education.

I enjoy my public speaking engagements on a scope of topics both intellectual and experiential. With decades of public speaking experience, I will work to ensure that your event is enhanced with a message that educates, encourages, and uplifts.

I have a very full life, even while I live with permanent injuries and chronic pain. I continue to grow as a woman, as a spiritual being, as an intellectual, and I am ever evolving. I have reinvented my life more times than you would believe. Each time a better version of my self than the previous.

I like to encourage others to their own dedication. I like to encourage others to take the impulse to grow & evolve seriously. To evolve and expand ones soulful understanding as well as ones intellect, & emotional wellbeing, & ones physical health is a great part of life.

Choosing to transcend, transform, and transmute conditions in life is not always easy, but it is always good. Goodness is a guide in life. There are many guides that we have as part of our range of intelligences. Goodness is a guide that will help you navigate when things just don’t seem to be working for you.

The range in what I offer is evidence of just how hard I have worked to LIVE as well as possible.

Whether you sign up for a live-program, or watch a video filled with information & education; or whether you seek mentoring, or you enroll in an online program, I will offer you a unique approach infused with the range of my unique combination of east and west. My approach is unique because what I have learned is cross-disciplinary allowing me to synthesize and distill, finding what is most helpful for a given situation or person. Yet, fundamentally, I just like to take the best of anything, refining it for its quality and help for evolving.

You will get the benefits of what I have learned and lived. The way I LIVE is informed by experts in both western and eastern medicine.

• Support for your health & wellbeing? There will be a growing library of programs available through this website in the coming months. If you would like to be notified of when a new program is available, sign up and you will receive an email letting you know the date that the program will be published. Whether you seek support for your health & wellbeing, want to find answers for your chronic pain, or you need to set up a workplace wellness program, there will be a program in 2020 for those needs.

• Do you need a speaker for your event? Book me for an engaging, encouraging, and educational talk. I am a seasoned public speaker with years of experience. I am an expert in resilience. I know the terrain of exhorting others to raise their perspective. I like being on a stage in front of an audience, so let’s talk about your needs and how I can best help you in putting on a successful conference, event, or forum. Whether you need someone to speak to your group onIine or in-person, I would be honored to be your speaker.

• Are you looking for a spiritual mentor? It was a few years ago that people started asking me for spiritual mentoring. This was seemingly ‘out of the blue’ but as I started to work in this capacity, I discovered just how well it all works. As part coach, part spiritual encourager, part meditation teacher, part health & wellbeing advisor, part sage, I will support you in your personal goals to grow & evolve into your best self. It is a pleasure for me to journey with others as they take the steps into new seasons of who they are. If you would like support as you grow & evolve into your most authentic best version of your self, I would love to work with you.

• Do you need to develop a Workplace Wellness program? I will partner with your organization, consult, advise and ensure that your employees are educated in what will make a difference in their health & wellbeing. In the United States the current medical insurance model is unsustainable. The health industry has defaulted to a sickness industry. The problems of deductibles, incomprehensible billing practices, along with an absence of education programs has rendered healthcare little more than a reactionary system. Therefore it has never been more important to re-invent what it means to be well, healthy, and empowered to protect the quality of your life. I would like to have a conversation with you about what is possible.

I am still learning. I am still seeking. And I am still LIVING with my eye on a quality life. To me a quality life means first and foremost: HEALTH. In all things, HEALTH IS WEALTH. In the absence of health, nothing has much value. Therefore, Quality+Value in Life is a result of HEALTH. HEALTH is the coefficient of everything that’s good in life.

Beth’s equation to live by:

Quality of Life x (HEALTH)+Value in Life x (HEALTH) = WEALTH

Beth’s formal education:

• BA Religious Studies : University of California, Riverside

• MA Theology : University of Notre Dame

• MA International Diplomacy with specialization in transnational terrorism (magna cum laude)

Professional Certifications:

• Certification in Meditation : Chopra Center, Carlsbad, CA

• Certification in Ayurvedic Medicine & Healing : Chopra Center, Carlsbad, CA

• Certification in Masters of Wisdom & Meditation : Davidji Meditation Academy, Carlsbad, CA

• Administration : Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

  • Certification in (all programs completed successfully and certified):

• Blueprint Coach / Shadow Coach : Ford Institute, JFK University / Ford Institute

• Mindset Reset / Power of You : Mel Robbins, online training course @ MelRobbins.com

• Science of Extraordinary Performance / Habit of Ferocity : Steven Kotler, online training academy

• Drug & Alcohol Counseling : U.S. Army, Munich School of Behavioral Sciences

• Advanced Drug & Alcohol Counseling : U.S. Army, Munich School of Behavioral Sciences

• Behavioral Health Specialist, Family Systems, Spouse & Child Abuse Counseling : U.S. Army Medical Center & School, Ft. Sam Houston, TX

• Combat Medic Specialist : U.S. Army Medical Center & School, Ft. Sam Houston, TX

Further information regarding additional education and training available upon request