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Two family trips between the age of 10 and 12 transitioned me in a “Morris Massey” kind of way from closed, rigid and isolated to looking at life through Disneyland glasses, where anything was possible and knowledge became a drug of choice. The most important lesson I learned from high school was from Mr. Hart jumping up and down yelling – “All matter is energy, all matter is energy”, and how to stand on my own feet and choices regardless of what others thought.

Since leaving high school, life has over all been a quite remarkable adventure. The greatest teachers were my family which encoded a sense of lineage and Christian values in spite of big city challenges, the Civil Air Patrol which taught me discipline and fed my growing sense of patriotism, many wonderful male and female friends ~ (one of which was to become my idealized life partner model) and Robert Heinlein, who encapsulated a life style/philosophy, code of values, patriotism and hard-nose clarity which has stayed with me to this day. The challenge of adapting to the big city as a teenager was not resolved so I left high school and my family carrying the role of “black sheep/overachiever” which is a life challenge to this day.

An interest in Marine Biology sent me to spending time at ASU as a zoology major, some friends of mine graduated – and found work at only slightly better then minimum wage, one friend with his PhD in Physics has incredible trouble finding any work at all.

Also decision to take some time to become a SCUBA Diving Instructor seemed logical along with finding out if it would be enjoyable to get into Marine Biology – my desired career at the time. Unsure of the value of a formal college education, I left to continue work in this area and overtime, added water safety instructor, sailing, and whitewater canoeing instructors to the collection.

Robert Heinlein and my parents vaulted me into young adulthood – a “liberated woman of the 60s”. As with any drug, simple knowledge no longer became enough, as the self –help craze began. I discovered the tremendous benefits of cleaning one’s own house internally, triggered primarily by a marriage at 25 into a relationship which ended after physical abuse became the norm. I made the decision at that age that I was not here to have genetic children of my own for reasons that might be discussed on another page or in the blog. Instead to support my own sister’s children (3) as I could and if so moved later, to adopt.

Discovery of the “new age” movement also occurred during this time by reading two key books ~ “2150 A.D.” by Thea Alexander and “Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah” by Richard Bach. Leaving the marriage, a new life began at a clothing optional community in Phoenix, Az based on Thea’s teachings where I thought I would investigate the “science of spiritual energy dynamics” by studying the ways of the A.M.O.R.C Rosicrucian’s.

Spending time in California, first in LA, then San Francisco and finally Sacramento lead to the decision to experience the tradition life of marriage, and employment at a Bank. (Sigh- wasn’t much good at either). During this time I developed a passion for self-help/internal work to look at what wasn’t working and find out why, which lead to the addition of new age attitudes and philosophies in my lifestyle.

Returned to Phoenix to begin a career with Red Cross working in both the health and safety services as well as disaster response. National disaster response work started with the 1983 Colorado river floods, a second marriage effort with a (then unknown) good ole southern boy which resulted in a move to South Carolina where I developed and managed a five county disaster response and learned how to live in the country off the land. This lifestyle and marriage proceeded to climax with responding to Hurricane Hugo out of Puerto Rico/Oakland Quake and return to Phoenix where I care for my mom during last months of her life.

My second husband returned to the South without me and I undertook a study of a Shamanic path to really understand myself, patterns, choices, relationships and experience choices all my life. Here I learned how my inner wounded/abandoned child ran my life, my shadow held my power and greatness, to take responsibility for my choices and not give up my personal authority to “buy” love, respect, acclaim or position.

One of the internal insights which came during that time was understanding my addition to the paradigm of “employees and marriage”. I can only speak for myself in saying that the “being taken care of” mentality that I was raised with, like any drug addict is too difficult to resist. Therefore a vow to never engage in either environment again, has resulted in an independent lifestyle both as a business owner and as a woman.

My passion for workplace safety and environmental health has resulted in a sole proprietor business called “Safety Paradigms” being blessed with clients like the Community College, National Safety Council, City of Phoenix and others. The energy to teach directly is not as strong as it was, so I am beginning to transition to online training and communication, only now developing my professional website at www.safetyparadigms.com .

This effort has supported my passion to assist people with creating, turning knowledge into action, a more holistic,integrated and balanced life from self ~ responsibility, reliance and authority. How ironic that the lessons on the toxins in our life extended into the environmental toxins that are impacting our health.