About Me

I live in a beautiful coastal town north of Boston with my husband and two daughters…a long way from home where I grew up in a small farming community of less than 1,000 people in Eastern Oregon. My family is still there, growing wheat on 3,000 acres of fertile ground near the foothills of the Blue Mountains, a heaven on earth in its own right. I’m a work-at-home mom: a freelance graphic designer, technical illustrator and painter-turned-potter. As for this blog, it was begun mainly with the IC community in mind, from the standpoint of an artist working on healing through the creative process whether it be painting, writing or making pottery. IC stands for “Interstitial Cystitis”, a painful bladder disease that can take years to untangle the root cause. Meanwhile, managing the associated symptoms can be very difficult at times. The title Breathing Easy comes from my ability to breathe easier these days, thanks to a lot of hard work over the past 10 years, and the help of my family and friends, the women and men on the IC Puzzle message board, and a series of doctors, practitioners, teachers and gifted healers who have fallen in my path along the way. As stated on my first post called Hello World, my intention here is “to shed a positive light on an otherwise devastating condition and to offer hope of recovery to anyone who is willing to look beyond the surface of things and understand the alchemy of certain events in our lives. Those events often bring about a new awareness and a change of consciousness of what it means to be a spiritual being living in a physical world.” I hope you enjoy following my journey…