About Cheri

I'm an intuitive guide for transformational insights leading to change. And also a recovering advertising marketing director and consumer researcher. But I've been a lifelong seeker of insights into how we live, communicate and manage stress and anxiety in order to lead a joyous, connected, productive and graceful life.

Much of my journey has been propelled by experiencing the uncomfortableness that comes from being a highly sensitive person. Navigating people, places, and things can become almost claustrophobic because I often experience other people's emotions and feel them physically. It makes living in New York City tricky sometimes.

Those experiences can also be disorienting, making me question what's really happening or how I really feel in a situation. It's led me to seek answers around how we communicate with each other, how we hear what’s said, and how and why we often pick ourselves and each other apart instead of celebrating our perfect wholeness. 

I now see my sensitivity as a second level of communication, one that’s often not acknowledged or discussed or even noticed by others.  However, my journey started in more traditional paths with degrees in art and advertising. I worked for many years in market research and business development in the newspaper industry helping corporations find insight on questions like "how do people make decisions?" and "what motivates them to love a brand?". The portion I possibly loved the most was finding the best ways to communicate the insights to the different types of people. Because if you can't hear the information in a way that makes sense to you, how can you ever act on it?

Then I found a blog about a Face Reading in 2008 by Jean Haner, master practitioner, teacher, and Hay House author. I went to her first workshop in 2013 and have been studying Face Reading, 9 Star Ki (Feng shui astrology), and Energy Clearing with her ever since. I'm certified in her Clear Home, Clear Heart Energy Clearing program. 

The thousands-of-years-old Chinese art of Face Reading is one of the most sophisticated yet elegantly simple systems I've found to gain understanding of myself and the people in my life. My teacher's approach to this work revealed a kinder, gentler perspective for understanding the map of our energetic inner design, clarity around the choices we make, and the interests in and reactions to life that we have. And the additional insights in the 9 Star Ki system, which utilizes the same Chinese medicine energies, uncovered more hidden depths that further modify how I uniquely showed up in, reacted to, and lived life.

Additionally, Energy Clearing me offered a solution that didn't require understanding, or re-living traumas and frustrations. It’s a connection to simply clear the blockages that are stopping us from living a happier, more productive, and easier life. What a relief to my brain! It's not a system of overriding experiences but clearing the energetic kinks still stuck in our system, like kneading out a knot in a muscle. It freed my energy, clarity and focus to explore personal and professional transitions and transformations with a lighter heart.

Along with traditional Chinese medicine, I've learned from many modalities including affirmations, prayer and meditation which use the power of language and openness to relax into the best and highest good for themselves. Louise Hay’s book "How To Heal Yourself" has been a source of inspiration and healing for me as well as other wisdom tools like divination cards and the I Ching. I'm initiated to give Deeksha (Oneness Blessing) and more formally,  studied philosophy and meditation at the School of Practical Philosophy in New York and practiced as Prayer Chaplain program at Unity of New York.

Most recently, during COVID lockdown, I explored trauma-informed healing through Mastin Kipp's ProsperX program. It added a new language and understanding to my life and my work, allowing me to layer a western medicine structure of how the experiences of our past act on our nervous system (nurture) with the eastern medicine insights of our energetic inner design blueprint (nature). It's like having a brighter light to navigate life, to lighten up the dark times as well as spotlight the best parts.