Spreading Sunshine

Laurie's professional credentials include being certifed as the following: Professional Soul Coach(tm), Reiki Master, Feng Shui consultant, NeuroLinguistic Programming Practitioner, PassionCrafter Facilitator, and TimeLine Therapy(tm) Practitioner. She has been involved in energy work for more than 10 years and founded The Healing House, a holistic healing center in Lambertille. She has also taught meditation, stress reduction and many of her other original programs at retreat centers, yoga centers, schools, corporations and organizations throughout the U.S.

Her study has included programs with renown healers Nancy SantoPietro and Denise Linn, as well as at the Institute for Holistic Studies in New Hope, PA. She has taken workshops in energy healing and medical intuition with Rosemary Altea, Barbara Brennan, Rob Jokel, Caroline Myss, Mona Lisa Schultz and John Windwalker; in intuition development with Nancy Rosanoff and James Van Praagh; in shamanism with John Perkins and William Two Feather; life coaching-related topics with Martha Beck, Wayne Dyer, Debbie Ford, Julie Jordan Scott and Ilyana Vanzant; and meditation with Jon Kabat Zinn and Lama Surya Das, among others. She graduated from The University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Communications in 1991.

From 1995 and 1999, Laurie ran her own public relations business WordSmith Communications, Inc. Before that, she specialized in media relations and healthcare public relations at Burson-Marsteller in New York City and Johnson & Johnson in Raritan, New Jersey.

Laurie is deeply committed to her call as mother and partner, and is constantly tuning in as to the best possible pathway in each moment for integrating all her callings. Her greatest joy is being partner, best friend and companion of 17 years to her husband Jim Bowbliss, and mother to their miraculous son Devin James.

She loves sitting in the sun, writing, painting, rowing crew, playing in water, kayaking, hiking, learning from children, being in nature and hanging in hammocks. Laurie is passionate about writing, and dreams of having many more books published.