About Eydie

As a Scorpio, I am generally uncomfortable with telling much about myself, but here goes…in no particular order.  And yes, it is uncomfortable!

My life has been about deep connection, intuition, transformation and healing.  I have a deep commitment to learning life’s lessons and finding the blessings in every situation.

I mentor people through dark nights of the soul, challenging trials, and loss.

I teach how to live life from the divine center. 

I coach people who long to live a spirit-filled, intentional life.

I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up.  I spent my formative years in Korea and Singapore.  My graduating class from high school was all of 26.  After dabbling in four or five degree programs, I graduated from university with a crazy wrong major for me. Medical technology. Uh-huh.

I’ve been married–and not married. During the married years my husband and I produced five amazing, beautiful, talented and wise children.

I went to graduate school while parenting teenagers. I worked in the field of aging and got specialized training in geriatric mental health and then went on to be a therapist, and then a coach.

I lost a job I loved, then my career, then my savings, then my home.  I lost relationships, my self-respect, my security, my reputation, my identity.  I lost five productive years to grieving and wandering. 

I found meaning and purpose, and the keys to living a  fulfilling, congruent, authentic life.

I’ve lived in a lot of homes. A trailer house in  Nebraska.  A rambler in North Dakota.  A cute little Victorian with coal burning pot belly stoves in Seoul.  A British colonial in Singapore with louvred windows and snakes in the back yard. An apartment where my new husband rebuilt the engine to our only car on the living room floor. Twice.  A garage.  A very teeny home in Kansas City that we paid $17,000 for. (Can you believe it?) Two different grand old houses in Shaker Heights.  A house with a huge yard, swimming pool, and fort for the kids.  A home with wonderful energy and an English garden where for eleven years the kids and I ate dinner together every night on the front steps or the back patio or, in a pinch, at the kitchen table.  A little house that looked like your great-great-grandma’s. It was in a little mountain town and had fruit trees, chickens, and three feet of snow in the winter.  A bright blue houseboat on Lake Union in Seattle. A floating home on Portage Bay.  A charming apartment in the heart of San Francisco.

I love my books. When I packed them up to move to San Francisco, the house boat floated a foot higher.

I hate to exercise just to exercise. There has to be some purpose.

My favorite things are relaxed, slow meals with friends where I don’t do the cooking, road trips where I do the driving, Le Tour de France, a tropical beach during a cold winter back home.  A cozy bed with clean sheets. Beautiful spaces. Spirited conversations.  Massages.  The last light of day.  Having my kids all together in one place for short periods of time. And, chickens! (I can’t have them here in San Francisco, but someday….)