About

My life AND my business are about rejuvenation. We are “Souls Having a Human Experience,” with an amazing tool we each received at birth: An endlessly versatile, miraculous, self-healing, Soul-feedback-system BODY.

Most of us know we could be taking better care of our personal bodies, but we forget (or get distracted).  Health Coaching is a great way to get back on track.

Luckily, Nature reminds us of the everyday miracles and beauty we live with daily – bits of Heaven on Earth.

Throughout decades of other entrepreneurial success and various other business adventures, I steadily developed Self-Healing practices (for myself and others) that build on the Health that I have.  There are “Countless Ways to Promote Healing” to create and rebuild health as we live.  This different approach (from medical models of addressing symptoms of illness and disease) may be of interest to you.

Then, almost 2 decades ago, I saw a way to apply Life Coaching studies to my methods of Health and Healing, and began to lovingly assist clients to greater self-healing.  Although there were no examples of others using the term “Health Coach” (and most asked me, “What do you mean?  What Sport to do you coach?”)   Sick care and disease/medical treatment are unnecessary when we take better care of the health that we HAVE.

My goal is to make this unique field, Self-Healing Lifestyles, a coherent choice for a larger audience. It is another new flavor of Complimentary and Alternative practices that holistically address symptoms and disease WHILE buttressing overall health, as part of the True Health Care industry that is becoming the norm.

I love to coin terms like “Delicious Cycle” (which is the opposite of a vicious cycle), laugh and enjoy life.  I have sung my heart alive for over 20 years with Pacific Voices Choir, and revel in my 13 years of my very sweet Love Life with my soon-to-be-husband, Karl.  We are among many friends in a trend of choosing to marry after 12 or more years together, and we are happy to report feeling ready for the growth opportunities of going deeper into Life by doing so, now.

We work together in various ways since he is a well-respected M.D. offering East-West Integrative and Functional Medicine, with expertise in Energy Medicine, and his additional degrees in Electrical Engineering, with a BioEngineering Masters.

Karl was also the Added Father to our now adult Son, who remains an important part of my daily living and learning. 

 

As a Mother, I am amazed at continuing to experience how my Son remains every age in my day to day living thoughts of him…  Where does time go?!

 

I live and share ways to maintain and regain “Vital, Radiant Health ~ for life” – perhaps my help will be of interest to you.  Call 831 222-3090 or email me here, or at Monica.HealingCoach@gmail.com

I do not promote a single form of water purification

While traveling in Arizona, signs for the tiny town of McGuireville gave this bonus photo for purified water dispensing

 

Pacific Voices, in our 25th year, sing 4-8 part harmony of music from all over the world and all over time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shorty Biography:
  Monica McGuire has helped parents and children to Be Well and Age Well as a Self-Healing Lifestyles Health Coach since 2000.  Amidst 40 years of Health-Enhancement & Coaching studies, her systems replenish youth and vitality at any age.  See her study and experience listings below.
Additionally, Monica helps parents and other adults caring for minor children to heal through her guidance program, “Considering Divorce FOR the Children’s Sake.”  Her goals expand here to help families can avoid traps and (Social) System-Induced Traumas (SITs).
Her Relationship, Community-Building, Parent Coaching, and Mediation expertise help physical and emotional health alike.  Besides helping all ages with their individual and family health, she assists peaceful divorces (like she had in 2006, when her Son was 5).  She has learned much since her own challenging experiences starting 5 years after her divorce, that led her to focus on helping families whose children are harmed when social system “assistance” to other members of the family is involved.  (She joins millions of others worldwide attempting to shed light on needed changes since too many social systems are funded according to the number of families in distress – a terribly damaging conflict of interest.)

In Santa Cruz since 1997, Monica has sung in Pacific Voices choir 20 years and enjoys Self-Healing through community advocacy, gardening, and art.  She holds an Anthropology degree and was a high-tech financial planning entrepreneur in her early Career.

Resume, Experience, and more about What I DO:
I coach-assist those wishing &/or needing to – Sleep or Eat Better, Drink more Water (Get Hydrated), Reduce Stresses and Improve their Muscle Tone, etc., – but haven’t been able to achieve these goals on their own.
  Practitioners (including doctors) TELL us to reduce our risks & symptoms by improving lifestyles, but few have time & expertise to teach/coach what individuals can DO, generally and specifically. That combination is a recipe for adding shame (another risk factor) since lifestyle-oriented issues arise from chronic inabilities to make changes on our own. My clients feel relieved as I “Hold Their Hands to Health.” I answer their needs with decades of resource knowledge to make progress easier, faster, and sustainable.
  I’m 57… and told I look much younger (despite graying hair). Moreover, I FEEL MUCH BETTER than I did even 30 years ago, when “Be Well, Age Well” became my goal. I felt 70 from overwork and other stress, lack of sleep, constant congestion, skin problems, weight gain (that was actually inflammation), and lifelong constipation (stopped up 2-3 weeks at a time)!
  Born quite sensitive, I suffered from childhood into my 30’s until I found the RIGHT help to detox and finally claim vital, radiant health. While getting terrific compliments about how much better I looked, I developed a Love of Nurturing others.
  I assist clients to “Expand on the Health they HAVE,” and to Follow a Plan More Easily and Artfully: Humans can sustainably increase energy by reversing aging up to 10 years. This also adds enhancements such as better understanding what we most want to do with the rest of our lives.
  Many awakenings result from a steady stream of simple-step lifestyle choices. I learned about life coaching and applied it to Health (long before anyone else had the idea). So I am a true veteran with 20 years experience as a Health Coach.
  The Self-Healing Lifestyles coaching program I created while pregnant with my Son in 2000 uncovers the unique, small, easy steps to create anyone’s “Delicious Cycle” of health enhancement – (a Delicious Cycle is the opposite of a vicious cycle in which our lives get better incrementally, since we use new energy to make further lifestyle additions/enhancements to feel and look better still).
  My clients adjust the amount of hand holding vs. accountability is desired on their journeys of discovering how their bodies are asking for self-healing. With hundreds of simple additions &/or small changes to choose from (or tailor-create) the most common exclamation is, “I am amazed these small changes can do so much!”
  I also enjoy surprising people with how much more affordable a coach can be than they might think. There are several ways to tailor a program they are excited to start. Please call or email me to learn how that works, and decide to give yourself and/or a loved one an easier path to doing what we all know we need.

QUALIFICATIONS & EDUCATION

  • 25 years (post University) Health-Enhancement Studies, creating the signature system, named “Self-Healing Lifestyles”
    • Health Seminars and Courses by Dr. Andrew Saul, Elaina Love, New Natives, Rose Lee Calabro & Pam Masters • Functional Medicine courses on Digestive Disorders, Chronic Illness and Disease Lifestyle Choices, Nutraceuticals with Jeffrey Bland, Datis Kharrazian, Richard Shulze, plus other Scientific authorities and Medical Food experts • The Foundation for Global Community, Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children, Challenge Day training »
    • Independent Parent Coaching and Family Health Training
      • Six years Parent Coach Training with acclaimed field leader Elane Scott; • “Challenge Day” social transformations system for schools training • Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children: 2004 Summit & studies (Joseph Chilton Pearce, Suzanne Arms, Stan Tatkin, Bruce Lipton, Marti Glenn) »
  • Caring for & Expanding on the Health that we HAVE: Physical, Relational, Emotional, Spiritual
    Further training and study via Energy Medicine, Balanced Lifestyle Studies via ISSEEEM & Council Grove Annual Conferences: Jacob Liberman, Gilah Yelin Hirsch, Jim Oschman, Lynne McTaggart, Penny Kelly, Claude Swanson, Dean Martens, Susanna and Puran Bair, Debra Greene, Temenos, InnerQuest, Inner Child, Leonard Jacobsen, Win and Bill Sweet, IAHP, more »
  • Dynamic Delivery Speaker Training and more with Susan Kerby
    Speak and Shine Your Light, Awaken to Your Calling 2013-2017»
  • Various Courses and Programs from 2010-2014 with: • Cynthia Stott: Speaker Success, Get Ready to Speak, Game-Changing Beliefs, Generosity Code (Changing the Way We Do Business) and the Generosity Code Fundamentals • Rebecca Hall Gruyter: Experienced Speaker and Leadership programs, Community Appreciation Workshop, Speaker Talent Search Finalist • and more from TR Garland, Jenn August, Mark Hoover, Sage Lee, Polly Dithmer, Joie Seldon »
  • Hands-On Healing Trainings and Certifications
    Sharon Forest Intensive Trainings, Reiki with Ani Stocks, Micro Med Master, Theragem, and Matrix Rhythm Therapy Systems 2003-2017»
  • Trained Mediator for Community and Small Claims Court Dispute Resolutions
    Center for Conflict Resoultion, Santa Cruz County 2016-17 »
  • Infant and Young Childhood Well Brain Development Certification
    Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential 2000 »
  • Elementary School Teacher Training
    Santa Cruz County Office of Education 1997-99 »
  • Seminar Leader Training for Community Cultural Advancement
    Foundation for Global Community 1996-2000»
  • Independent Psychological, Scientific, Relationship, Grief Work, and Metaphysical Studies
    • Sacred Grief Rituals and Study with Hannah Idalia & Dana Schlick 2017-18;  and 1986-2010:             • Harville Hendrix relationship seminars and studies; • David Deida relationship studies; • Inner Child studies with Gail Andrews; • Human Potential/Consciousness studies, “The Nature of the Soul” 3-year course course with Georgia Lambert; • Ageless Wisdom & Persnonal Empowerment Trainings with Michael Benner/Doreen Key; • “MindAware” seminar/course and AlphaLearning facilitator training, plus “Live and Learn” courses with Steven Snyder; • Jungian Dream Analysis under John Prince from 1994 to 2005; • Lectures at the Carl Jung Institute for Dream Study; • Hyperdimensional Physics courses with Nassim Haramein; • Buckminster Fuller studies; • Physics lectures via UCSB; Temenos: Rob & Paula Grey • “InnerQuest” Spiritual & Life Course Programs (in-wilderness week-long and one-day events)  »
  • Facilitator Trainings and Facilitation Experience
    • Dynamic Facilitation Training via the Center for Wise Democracy, taught by Founder Jim Rough and Community Dynamic Facilitation Assistance in Santa Cruz County 2019;  knOwhere Store (MG Taylor) & Innovation Labs 1998-2010 Training & assisting facilitation of schools, NGO’s, businesses, and government organizations • World Café Training & hosting of the The Natural Step Open Space Conference in Palo Alto, plus Conversation Cafe’s in Santa Cruz • Organizing & hosting of 1997 awards ceremony honoring ecological and environmentally-sound business practices WomenRise for Global Peace Santa Cruz, CA 2002-04 • Creating peace in a weekly circle of open sharing; Monthly facilitation hosting of World Café style “Community Conversations” for Santa Cruz County and Peace Officers; Creating public events to promote peace and creative world solutions as actively as others promote war, • State of the World Forums Hosting San Francisco, CA 1998-99 • Numerous courses, sessions, and collaboratives with Jane Goodall, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lynne Twist, Juanita Brown and David Isaacs (creators of the World Café), Hunter Lovins, more »
  • B.A. in Cultural Anthropology with Certificate in Visual Anthropology
    University of Southern California, Schools of: Social Sciences, Film, Broadcast Journalism, and Print Journalism, plus two full years of undergraduate business courses »
2019 Testimonial:

“Monica has been supporting my husband and I for 8 years and my husbands eating and attention to wellness shifted in an amazingly gentle and sustainable manner.  His trust in Monica’s listening and guidance lead us to talk with Monica weekly as a couple as part of healing all aspects of life. We continue to explore new ways of communication and having each of us delight in our partnership. I encourage you to allow Monica to work her gentle magic and deep wisdom with you. Her gifts continue to unfold in so many areas of our life. We are blessed to have her as our guide.”

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  2. Thank you so much. AND, you found me just as I have found time to add more content. Please stay tuned and keep letting me know what you think of my posts. In Love and Light ~Monica

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