Meet Melissa

Melissa’s gateway to healing began with traditional medicine. She graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine in 2003 and completed residency in Family Medicine in 2006. In 2007 she had a Mind-Body awakening during a time of intense stress. As she describes it, “I could no longer ignore the connection between intense emotions and my physical symptoms which included migraines, insomnia, digestive issues, PMS, and beyond”.

She expanded my personal and professional journey through the study of Mind-Body Medicine in 2008. There is a Chinese proverb, “when the student is ready, the master appears.” In 2009, She was introduced to the work of Grand Master Nan Lu through the Tao of Medical Qigong. As she recalled“I still can feel the moment when on day one of my training I read the quote “From the Spiritual perspective, there is no disease or illness. There is only undiscovered purpose.”

She went on to continue training with Grand Master Lu through advanced Tao of Medical Qigong, Chinese herbal medicine, Dragon’s Way Qigong, Breast Health Qigong, and Digesting the Universe. In 2012, She completed a one year apprenticeship with Grand Master Lu at his practice, the Tao of Healing in NYC. Grand Master Lu has a specialty in the Chinese energy Medicine approach to understanding, preventing, and healing the root cause of Breast Cancer.

Ancient traditions have long recognized and modern science has confirmed that EVERYTHING is energy. Modern science has also discovered that energy and mass are interchangeable, therefore all breast conditions such as calcifications, cysts, and tumors can be viewed as energy transformed into mass. The approach she uses in her practice support creating flow at every level Body, Mind, and Spirit to open our healing power.

Meet Chantal

Chantal was on the forefront of the coaching movement when coaching was budding in the 90’s. She attended the first training program offered by the Coaches Training Institute and got certified in 1997 as a personal and professional coach and immediately began building her coaching practice, building it up to twenty clients per week without any prior business knowledge.
One of her clients offered her a job as a training and development director, where she built from the ground up an entire training and development department over a period of six years.
Within that same period of time, she started a mind/body healing center with her husband and stepped fully into managing and growing that business two years after start-up. That business has now been in operation for thirteen years.
Along the way, she suffered from lyme disease, Epstein Barr, burnout and breast cancer. She began digging deeper, wanting to understand why despite her best health efforts, she kept getting sick.

She discovered that an over exposure to stress and trauma affects the immune system. In 2012, she came across the ACE study (Adverse Childhood Experiences) which opened her eyes on the impact that trauma has over a lifetime on people’s physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being.

She enrolled in a mind/body psychotherapy healing program in West Hartford Connecticut. She had already studied massage and bodywork after college and learned about mind/body healing modalities along with attending a two year program in movement and expressive art therapy. She eventually enrolled in the Masters in Social Work degree at Smith College in 2017.

Chantal is an entrepreneur at heart and deeply believe in people’s ability to heal. It is now obvious to her that healing and growing a business is an inside job. What blocks healing and being successful in business comes from the same places inside, deeply held belief and emotions about unworthiness and lack of belonging created at an early age.

It is absolutely possible to thrive beyond trauma. In fact, it is imperative that people who have suffered choose to heal in order to not repeat the same patterns from the past. People who choose to heal themselves have gifts to offer the world. They know, because they have walked that path, how to rise like a Phoenix from the ashes and it is to these people, who are passionate, empowered, committed to living a life on purpose, who believe in making this world a better place that she speaks to, coaches and support in building their business.