Hi,

Thought you would like to know a little more about me.  I am

a registered nurse who has more than 40 years experience in

various fields of nursing.  My main area of interest has been

alternative therapy.  I have seen too many people suffer from

the side effects and expected effects of traditional medicine

and felt there had to be a better way to help people.  So in 1989

I began my quest for better ways to heal.  I have studied many

areas of alternative treatment including Reiki, Healing Touch,

Homeopathy, herbs, aromatherapy and flower essences.  Each

seemed to help certain problems but none was applicable to

all illnesses.  The one area that was not helped by any therapy

was asthma.  I have a daughter who had exertional asthma as

a child.  When the doctor treating her, barely able to breathe

 from asthma himself, prescribed an inhaler with praises about

how they enabled him to exercise, I intuitively decided that

was the last thing I would use for her.  It obviously was not

making him any better.  We avoided the situations that gave her

the breathing difficulty and got through it successfully.  I was

grateful her problem was minor.  But that left a lasting

impression in my mind.

I have worked in the teaching area of health since 1983.  I  

taught student nurses at the local community college for a

number of years and then gave that up to work with home

health care which was my first love in nursing.  I worked for

the Red Cross teaching various health related courses.  I moved

from Pittsburgh, PA to N Ft. Myers, FL in 2002 and was back

into home health care.  I also have my own business teaching

about the various alternative treatments.

In the fall of 1999 I read an article by Dr. Paul Ameisen about

Buteyko and felt I had found the answer to the asthma problem.

I was careful though, as I knew too many treatments were

promoted that did not work.  I attended two weeks of courses

in Atlanta, GA and took the course myself.  I watched other

clients get rid of their reliever inhalers by the third day of class

and start dropping their preventer meds on the fourth and

fifth days.  All felt better than they had in years.  I was offered

the opportunity to go to New Zealand to study the Buteyko

Breathing Method and teach for four weeks.  The method is

used widely in New Zealand, Australia, England and Russia.

I went in February and March 2000 and saw dozens of people,

young and old alike, go off their reliever and regular medications

and feel wonderful.  They were no longer having asthma attacks

and could do many of the activities they had long ago given up.

My own sinus problem was completely cleared and I ended the

Sleep Apnea problem I was developing.

I have been teaching this wonderful therapy to others since then.

It is so rewarding to see people regain control of their lives and

enjoy each day free of breathing problems.