Meet Valerie

Welcome! I’m a writer, a life and executive coach, and a mindfulness teacher.

As an coach I support senior leaders, executive directors, and individual contributors to master an array of issues using mindfulness, attention and self-compassion practices.

My niche is working with women 40+ navigating the consequences of workplace bullying and abuse. I draw on my lived experience of workplace bullying and intimate partner violence and share the fruits of my ongoing healing journey.

As a writer, I publish personal essays about universal themes on my Substack newsletter, Glorious Ordinary. I write with clarity, honesty and insight about topics like grief, overcoming an eating disorder, true nourishment, depression, intimate partner violence, flourishing with type 1 diabetes, parenting adult children, aging and more.

For almost a decade I was a freelance writer and published author. I have two biographies in a Random House Young Reader series: Meet Maya Angelou and Meet Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As a Mindfulness Mentor, I share the benefits of my 30 year (and counting) meditation practice, which includes extensive silent retreat experience, and ongoing classes and groups with clients. I’m devoted to meditation as a spiritual practice. Sustainable change comes from self-awareness, and self-awareness leads to confidence and joy.

We can all use a lot more joy! Let’s find it together!

And for details about my multifaceted career in the nonprofit sector please go to my LinkedIn profile.