Maggie’s background includes a BA in Elementary Education having taught second, fourth, and fifth grades for six years. She earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work and became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in 1998. For over sixteen years she worked with adults as a psychotherapist with a focus in behavioral therapy and substance abuse. After a year of study from Coaches Training Institute in 2005 she received her Certification in Life Coaching.

In July of 2005 she had an opportunity to take a year long sabbatical from her psychotherapy and life coach practices. It was a time of deep reflection and renewal. She began her studies in A Course In Miracles which has influenced her work and changed the course of her life. This spiritual journey led her toward a desire to coach others around organizing their physical environment. After three years as an Organizer Coach she felt deeply called to incorporate more of her spiritual practices into her work as a Spiritual Life Coach.

When she is not coaching her clients to transform obstacles into miracles, she loves being out in nature hiking, kayaking or snowshoeing. One of her favorite places in world is Sedona, AZ.

Maggie is a member of the International Coach Federation—ICF. She was a member of Toastmasters’ International for ten years and became an award-winning international speaker.

Maggie’s Story

As it’s no accident that you were drawn to this site, it's no accident either that I have created a business with a focus on overcoming obstacles and letting go of that which no longer serves.

I grew up in a chaotic environment where words were meant to sting and emotional and mental scars grew deep. It was all very confusing because from the eyes of an observer everything looked so good on the outside. Parents who were good citizens, had a well-kept home, raised their three children to be religious, respectful of adults and well behaved in public, were at the same time so lost in the grips of alcoholism fighting their own internal battles that they became absent to what was most important, being fully present to their responsibilities.

It’s amazing how powerful our instincts to survive are even at a very young age. My way of calming my world was to make everything look perfect. Painfully shy, I was the “good kid” who followed the rules, colored inside the lines and used humor to buffer the tension. Over the years my chaotic world had been storing some very angry energy that had permeated within our home for years. Suddenly the shy “good kid” became the powerful and “angry boss” of my brother and sister when I was thrown into the parental role. I knew instinctively that in order to survive the chaos I had to be in control, no matter what. However, I was blind to the fact I was trying to control something that couldn’t be controlled, which magnified the chaos even more.

The survival skills I used to control my world began to fall apart in my early adulthood when I became aware that they were controlling me. I had to let go of the perfect world I had created and look within to the inner world riddled with chaos and anger. I had to take my finger out of the dike; it was painful and very uncomfortable, but intuitively I knew that this was the only way I would survive. Through the use of many of the tools that I now share with my clients, survival then turned into living and thriving and finally being fully present to everything life presents to me today.

I am now in control of how I think, act and feel one hundred per cent of the time. I understand that my perceptions of the world are what create my experience of it. I can choose to respond, not react to life’s chaotic moments. I comfortably create messes and clean them up because I understand that there is a natural flow of order and disorder in the world. I have found freedom, peace of mind and an inner spaciousness that allows me to be comfortable being myself.

Understand that when life's obstacles or problems show up as chaos in your physical space, conflicts in your relationships, unhappiness in your career or poor health you must look inward first to find the peace that will help you overcome the obstacle. You must see the problems differently. See them as miracles waiting to happen. When my clients learn to respond in this way their relationships improve, their mood is better and their financial struggles disappear. This can happen for you, too. It really is possible.