About me
Over the years I have had many friends tell me that I need to write a book so that I could share my life experiences with the world.  They would say that my life was too colourful to keep to myself.  I have always had a burning desire to do what they suggested but I knew that the timing had to be right for me.  I realize now that I needed to take all of these Values that I have written about and live them in my own life before I could go on and tell everyone else about them.  I had to be sure that they worked 100% for me in order to pass them on.  Needless to say, this book has been incubating inside me for a good fifteen years. 

Over a long period of time I have been building my “Life’s Toolbox.”  Each one of these tools is called a Value.  Values are a moral code that we agree within ourselves to live by.  You may ask “What is the big deal about values”?  The deal is that we need a strong foundation within, in order to live a focused, healthy and happy life.  If we don’t have this strong inner system, our life will be all over the place and we will never build stability whether it is with ourselves, our families or in the business world.  Without living a life of Values, it is like driving our car without a compass or road map.  We will always end up somewhere but chances are it won’t be a destination that we wanted.   The most important journey that we will ever take is the “Journey to Ourselves” Since I decided (and it is a decision), to live a Value Driven Life, my life has changed dramatically!

Here are just a few of the changes I have manifested for myself:

• I discovered that the most important relationship for me is ME.

• I learned how to change my Adversities into Victories.
• I learned how to turn a Sad life into a Happy One.
• I changed my world by changing my Thinking.
• I discovered how to build a Great Life from the Inside out.
• I stopped the Chaos and moved from a space of confusion into a place of Peace.

As the good witch said to Dorothy in the wizard of Oz “But Dorothy, you always had the answer as to how to get home,” and we also have our own answers.  Every answer to every question we have about life exists already inside each of us, just waiting to be brought out and acted upon.

Over a couple of years ago, my own family started working with the program that I write about in this book and the results have been nothing short of outstanding!  We have seen a huge difference in our own lives, to the point where I just have to pass it on to you.  We want every family, corporation, and schools  around the globe to get the same benefits as we have gotten.

At this point, I would like to share with you…………………..

“My Life in a Nutshell”

I was born into a poor, alcoholic abusive home. Unfortunately the dysfunction was running rampant.  I was the oldest girl of seven children and I saw and experienced first hand far more than a young girl should. Many years later, I came to understand why my vision of the world was so warped.  The lens I looked through was extremely out of focus. The only sense of true love that I felt was from my dear grandmother.  I now realize my poor stressed out mom was far too busy raising a house full of kids to see what was really going on.  At around the age of five, I knew that I would leave home as soon as I could and sure enough at the ripe old age of 16 I left school and went to work in a hospital as a domestic worker.  Two years later I headed off to a completely different Canadian province, a place where I knew nobody except my first husband.

For the next 20 years, I married three times, had my daughter, and struggled through an eating disorder until one day in December many years ago I Surrendered.   My life was out of control and I knew with every fiber of my being that I needed help from a Higher Source. I had a chat with my Ultimate Intelligence   and expressed that the harder I tried the more lost I was getting. I knew it was time to put my faith into something bigger than myself.  Mind you, I promised to do my due diligence and be willing to look at whatever I was supposed to and also be willing to do the work (God helps those who help themselves).  At that point I wasn’t quite sure what that was.  Today I completely understand the power of Surrender, because when I made that choice, that was my first day of freedom.  At that point I started to see the world through new eyes because people were miraculously showing up in my life offering holistic solutions to the challenges that I was having.  A brand New World had just opened up for me!

I got invited to Wellness Days where I was offered many different alternative therapies such as, massage, reiki, therapeutic touch, etc.   Before that, the only solution I ever heard about was with prescription drugs.  I started to read what seemed like thousands of self help books and attended the same amount of self development seminars.  I became a junkie for the holistic world!   At that time in my life, I needed to immerse myself into something really different than where I was.  The best part I noticed was that it felt healthy and for me, the right way to go.

I started to heal my body, mind and spirit.  I really got on the road to find out who I truly was.  In fact, I was really going back and tapping into all of these wonderful internal gifts that I always had but had gotten deeply buried from so long ago. I realized that in order to have great relationships in my outer world, I first had to become best friends with myself.  When I came to the point of truly loving and accepting myself that was when my relationship with others became magical.  I then started to appreciate everything around me.  I felt joyful and happiness just because I was alive, not because I bought a new car or a new house. This joy was far deeper than anything I had ever experienced before.  Now I could clearly see how all of these adversities in my life were true gifts in disguise. 

Eventually I came to a place where I knew that I was blessed to have gotten all of these amazing presents and that they were not only for me but for everyone.  My next step was to go out and pass all my life learning’s on.  I joined a coalition for Eating Disorders and Body Image. I currently facilitate a family program called “Family Values In Action”.  I developed and currently chair a women’s group called “The Diamond Girls”.  I participate in many other groups where we bring awareness around creating Peace, Love and building One Humanity.  I have concluded that I am here to Love, Serve and Know God.

Being in the peaceful place I am today, my next step is to serve others by releasing this book “A Course In Values” into the world.  I found that when I didn’t live by a good, positive “Code of Values” my life was floundering all over the place.  I now see that I was dependant on others to make my life a happy one.  Little wonder I always ended up disappointed.Today I have great clarity as to the importance of tapping into and exercising these values.  I compare it to our computer.  When we get a new computer, it comes with a built in “Operating System”  and over time, corrupt files come in and  really slow it down or stop it all together,  but once we do a clean up and go back to the original system, Voila! we are back in business. 

In life, Values are our “Operating System”.  We were born with these amazing characteristics and through life, we picked up corrupt files, our programs got distorted resulting in us living a very small, lack- luster life.  As soon as we do a clean up, we then start living the Magnificent Life that we are destined for! 

I invite you to come with me on this brilliant journey of “Igniting Your Values”  Through my A Course in Values