About the Authors
Kelli de Santé
Entrepreneur, Artist, Author, Speaker, Life Coach
Founder, EDGE Publishers, LLC,
CEO, Life Science Products, Inc.
Houston, TX
kelli@edgepublishers.com
Kelli is the CEO of an international nutrition supplement company, Life Science Products, Inc. She is a mother, author, artist, inspirational speaker and a true believer in the miracles of a Grace-filled life. From working in the tobacco fields of South Carolina, to door-to-door selling, to training and motivating thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs, to advancing from product representation to CEO in her current company, Kelli says her life and career have been seasoned with moments of Grace at every turn.
In her stories, Kelli shares her thoughts about how Grace, in all its miracles, can change our lives in a single moment and provide us with love, joy, peace and infinite abundance. All we have to do is invite Grace in as our life partner and open up to its Eternal Divine Expression. Kelli believes that Grace is not something you earn. There is nothing you can do to be good enough to receive it, you just have to invite, believe, and accept.
Grace is life’s amazing gift of goodness, and everyone comes into this life deserving it. Grace is your birthright … just because you are YOU! The more Grace that each of us accept and acknowledge in our lives, the greater the impact that Grace will have on the world, future generations, and each of us.
Bobbi Breo
Mystic, Mentor, Author
Founder, EDGE Publishers, LLC
Dripping Springs, TX
bobbi@edgepublishers.com
Bobbi Breo is a mystic, saying yes to God and to a new life now being explored. Her expression of the mystic wisdom within is taking form in many ways. In 2006, Bobbi created Love Is the Answer, an avenue for offering seminars, workshops and personal sessions to inspire people to explore essence and love. Bobbi creates experiential offerings to enhance more effective functioning on a personal level and in the workplace. In 2007, Bobbi created The Gathering, a weekly venue for meditation and spiritual exploration of the Self. She also offers monthly teleconference calls to all who are interested. Bobbi is an innate healer, using Light, wisdom, and compassion in her work. And, as one of the founders and officers of EDGE Publishers, LLC, Bobbi has created yet another avenue to contribute to others, this time through the written word.
Throughout her former career, Bobbi specialized in the management of medical malpractice lawsuits for major teaching hospitals in the Chicago area, culminating in the ownership of her own firm, Breo Claim Services, from 1995 through 2004. She has held numerous leadership positions in community and religious organizations. Bobbi graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington and has taken graduate work in law and inner city studies. She is certified as a mentor/facilitator with The Center for Soulful Living in St. George, Utah.
Angela Mandato
LMT, NCTMB, Trainer, Author
Founder, EDGE Publishers, LLC
President, Akashic Touch, Inc.
St. George, UT
angela@edgepublishers.com
Angela can walk into a room and have an immediate, dramatic effect on everyone present. Her mission, to assist in the spiritual evolution of mankind, is greatly enhanced by her masterful ability to read and move energy.
Angela is a shaman, Reiki master, light body practitioner, evolution facilitator, Metis Clan Mother and Reconnection healing practitioner. Her passion for energy medicine and ancient wisdom inspired her to journey deep into the Amazon jungle and to Peru where she worked directly with the ancient wisdom keepers of the high mountain Andes.
Angela has studied with many accomplished energy medicine practitioners, and has interned and worked directly with medical intuitive, Scott Werner, MD, since 2001. Her professional credentials include degrees from the Sensory Development Institute and Alberto Villoldo’s Healing the Light Body School.
Angela runs a successful healing practice, Akashic Touch Inc., in St. George, Utah, where she joyfully works with groups and individuals from all over the world. She is also the director and founder of The Luminous Heart Wellness Center, also located in St. George. A mentor by nature, Angela developed The Journey of the Luminous Heart™, a transformational retreat and workshop, where she lovingly works with individuals and groups to clear away past traumas and make room for a beautiful, soulful way of living on the earth.
Laura Brink
Organization Development Training Specialist
Feng Shui Consultant, Author
Founder, EDGE Publishers, LLC
San Jose, CA
laura@edgepublishers.com
For more than 20 years, Laura has focused professionally as a trainer, facilitator and consultant, designing and delivering corporate high-level learning programs for major technical and financial institutions throughout the U.S. and abroad. She specializes in the areas of leadership, instructional design, group facilitation, team building, and organization development. Laura has successfully coached hundreds of people on being more effective in sales and customer service, impacting bottom-line
strategic goals.
Laura also assists people in creating harmonious, honorable environments through the art of Feng Shui, and delights in offering coaching on space clearing for increased personal and professional organization.
Personally, Laura is passionate about truth and takes learning and evolution to heart. Through participating in multiple spiritual and self-development workshops, she continues to transform her life and explore Spirit. In addition to taking pleasure in her extended family, she enjoys visiting new places and people, beautifying her gardens and spaces, dancing meditatively, and practicing yoga and Pilates. With her friends, Laura enjoys exploring the San Francisco Bay Area where she lives, experiencing spirit-focused films, creating new healthy recipes, and engaging in meaningful and fun dialog.
Marjolaine Arsenault
Labyrinth Designer and Builder
Veriditas Certified Facilitator
North Creek, NY
marjolaine@edgepublishers.com
Marjolaine is a garden designer, labyrinth builder and a Veriditas certified facilitator. Her business, The Garden Spirit, specializes in creating private and public spaces of soulful gardens. Each garden is then a “Place-making” that fosters a greater sense of connectedness between people and the essence of all life, engaging all senses to connect more deeply with self and nature.
Since 2004, she has been facilitating labyrinth events in many different settings across the United States and Europe. Previously, Marjolaine owned an advertising agency and worked as a graphic designer for 20 years. She holds a BFA degree from Concordia University, Montreal.
Donna J. Bauman
Trainer, Educator, Artist, Musician,
Executive Director,
The Center for Soulful Living
St. George, UT
donna@edgepublishers.com
Since her earliest years, Donna’s greatest delight has been in creating, which led her to earn a BA degree from Alverno College and an MA degree from North Dakota State University, both in expressive arts and design. She also holds doctorates in educational leadership from Brigham Young University, and in nutrition from Donsbach University.
Donna’s career experience includes corporate training, teaching, educational administration, consulting and private practice. She currently serves as executive director of The Center for Soulful Living, Inc., and formerly served as vice president of Washington, DC’s World Peace Institute. In her two consulting businesses, Transformational Dynamics and Creativity Unlimited, Donna helped clients unlock their creativity and innate potential, and taught them how to apply it to their personal and professional lives. Her artistic expression is strongly focused on creating women in her pieces, and her paintings and drawings are held in private collections across the country.
Donna’s book, Seeing Through the Heart, combined her poetry and black and white photography, and was accompanied by an audiotape of her music and poetry, Listening Through the Heart. She also created an interactive videotape and workbook, Unleashing Creativity: A Trip into Your Creative Power.
To help others unfold and express their own creativity, Donna conducts individual and group Creativity Intensives at her studio.
Reverend Debbi Brown
Trainer, Author, Spiritual Counselor-Healer
Phoenix, AZ
debbi@edgepublishers.com
Debbi grew up a mystical child, with her identical twin sister and three brothers, in a Midwestern, Irish Catholic home. Her path has led from her from addiction into spirituality and the journey of enlightenment. She currently serves as a chaplain, minister, spiritual teacher, counselor, healer, and mentor. Debbi is a Usui, Mahatma & Karuna Reiki master/teacher, and a Healing Touch therapist, who works closely with the angelic realm. Over the past 20 years, she has helped hundreds of people heal and transform their lives through the use of clinical hypnotherapy.
Debbi and her husband co-founded the Peace House, a non-profit spiritual center for the modern mystic. A New Thought (Unity) minister, Debbi now trains other ministers. She created the curriculum and teaches adult education classes in a spiritual studies program. Her latest work includes sacred heart initiations, ancestral healing, unified field consciousness and DNA transformation for ascension.
Debbi is masterful at creating sacred experiences that transcend ordinary reality. Through Unity consciousness, in her sessions, classes and retreats, she creates empowering, transformational, and healing shifts that bring true freedom and liberty. She has a soul-level, intuitive practice with clients across the nation, sharing her gifts of awakened consciousness, and deep heart connection. Debbi’s angelic presence is easily balanced with her earthly joy and laughter. She loves empowering others to embrace their personal magnificence.
Maria Hartrich
Entrepreneur, Strategy Consultant,
Explorer, Writer, Musician
Ivins, UT
maria@edgepublishers.com
Professionally, Maria is president of Strategic Business Intelligence, Inc., a business consultancy providing industry, customer, and competitor analysis since 1992. She has worked extensively on competitor analyses, customer profiles, and industry trend analysis in a broad range of industries including financial services, technology, and insurance.
Maria brings considerable interviewing, listening, analytical and intuitive skills to her clients, identifying key trends to help them shape their product, marketing, and business development strategies. Her clients are primarily Fortune 500 companies, as well as private equity firms. She has an MBA from Wharton and an MA in Western European Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a Lauder Fellow at Wharton and is a member of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.
Spiritually and personally, Maria has been on her own unique journey of awareness and expansion, which has included the Integrated Awareness Technique and The Center for Soulful Living’s Soulful Leadership Training. Maria comes from her heart, and believes that relationships are amongst our greatest teachers. She is blessed with a wide and diverse circle of true friends and loved ones. Besides consulting, she enjoys her animals, her harp, walking amongst the red rocks, cooking and writing. She plans to continue writing and exploring life, love, and the world in all of its dimensions.
Annette Norris
Facilitator in Human and Spiritual Mastery,
The Center for Soulful Living
Dallas, TX
annette@edgepublishers.com
Annette lives a life connected to the core of her being, with soulful awareness of her divine nature. Annette is here to walk the path of love by living a life of inspiration, bringing a unique and rare perspective to our human experience—a perspective that comes from simplicity, innocence, and grace.
Annette’s primary relationship with life is illumined by her love of Jesus, Mary, and the saints. Because she has been called by God to share the light of Jesus, the pure essence of His teachings, and His sacred heart with the world, Annette offers experiences of Oneness through workshops and individual sessions.
Annette lives in Dallas, Texas with her husband, Sterling Procter. She taught English as a Second Language to third and fifth graders during a ten-year period for Dallas Public Schools. Her love has always been with children, especially her two sons, Jesse and Joel. Now that her sons are adults, Annette devotes her life to her mystical calling.
Dianne Shelton
Transformational Acupuncturist,
Quanta: The Divine Light Structure,
The Center for Soulful Living Facilitator
Denver, CO
dianne@edgepublishing.com
Mystical by nature, with a playful and loving sense of humor, Dianne lives an expansive stabilized experience of the Oneness, of the All. Her focused dedication to her spiritual unfolding has been fueled by a commitment to and the love of a long-term ongoing daily meditation practice.
As an acupuncturist for over twenty years, Dianne’s interests and perceptions about energy, light and consciousness influenced her continuing education. Her choices of study ranged from Ayurvedic medicine to numerous trainings through the Washington, DC Center for Consciousness Studies and Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Center, to The Reconnection, and The Center for Soulful Living mentoring program. In addition to Five Elements acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine, and Chinese herbal medicine, Dianne studied Toyo Hari Meridian Therapy and a highly esoteric Tibetan acupuncture from an oral tradition of teaching. Dianne’s wisdom and experience combines all of this. She calls her style of acupuncture Transformational Acupuncture.
Through her personal transformational process, Dianne began to embody an aspect of light known as Quanta: The Divine Light Structure, a powerful tool for healing and transformation, with tremendous potential for recalcitrant health issues, as well as unique and useful tools for the expansion of consciousness.
Dianne is available for both long distance healing and transformational sessions by telephone and in person sessions in the Denver, Colorado area.
Judy Szamos
Entrepreneur, Mentor, Author
St. George, UT
judy@edgepublishers.com
Judy was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her life has been filled with the full range of the human experience, from being a refugee escaping from Hungary, to growing up under trying circumstances, to becoming a loving mother, successful executive, and powerful woman unto herself.
Judy has applied her skills as a nurse, therapist, and successful business executive. Toward the last part of her corporate career she held the position of vice president of marketing for a major health care corporation, served as an internal marketing consultant for 360 hospitals, managed the marketing for a 3500+ PPO physician group, and played a key role on the merger team of two health care systems that integrated 45 hospitals. Her biggest asset has been her keen understanding of the human psyche.
Judy has trained and mentored individuals and groups by helping them connect with who they really are and bringing that essential authentic self into their lives and work. Her business, Working Soulfully, is a natural extension of what she has been doing throughout her 25-year corporate career. Its inspiration arose from the richness of the contributions of her mentors over the years. They inspired her, guided her, and would not let her fail.
Today Judy helps people align what they do, with who they are by translating their passion into action, finding the core realness within, and taking practical steps in the world. Her passion is to bring this experience to those who want to live their unique soul’s expression and see the value of having an objective facilitator who brings a tremendous depth and breadth of business experience. Her belief is that when you live your passion, life becomes exciting, fun, creative, and full of possibility.
Dorathea Thompson
Licensed Psychoanalyst
New York City, NY
dorathea@edgepublishers.com
Dorathea is a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City, who fuses the best of Western and Eastern wisdom into her work by employing a broad spectrum of modalities ranging from classical analysis to alternative methods. She is a seasoned yoga, Zen and Tibetan Buddhist practitioner and a graduate of the Asian Classic Institute, a curriculum modeled after the Tibetan Buddhist monastic Geshe Degree of the Gelukpa lineage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Formerly, Dorathea held various corporate positions and was the proprietor of a successful business entity in NYC.
Dorathea has stated, “I hold a strong conviction that the violence, challenges and ills of our world and this delicate planet can only be ultimately addressed through a process of personal healing; each person contributing to the whole. The healing of the collective demands the healing of the individual. It is towards that end that I wish to dedicate the rest of my life in being of service to others in facilitating this healing process. I wish to share my wisdom and gifts not only in the consulting room but also to connect with others through writing, ritual and art. For me it is truly a joy, a gift and a privilege to assist and bear witness to the process of transformation in working with others. I dedicate any personal merit garnered from the efforts of this book to the healing of every sentient being and to the healing of our magnificent planet.”
Dorathea lives with her husband Wayne in the foothills of the Berkshires, Massachusetts and the South St. Seaport area in New York City.
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