At a young age, I sustained a very severe injury. My coccyx or tailbone fractured when I fell at the playground. Because it was never corrected, that was the beginning of many mysterious health challenges. In the mid 1990’s, during my post graduate chiropractic education, we were learning how to take x-rays and doing so on fellow students. X-rays confirmed that my tailbone was in fact at 90°, when it should have been a nice gentle approximately 30° curve. My health continued to deteriorate, my ability to do normal daily activities began degrading and my world became much smaller. No attention was given to the state of my tailbone until 2015 when, during a kundalini yoga class where the instructions were to perform “body drops”, (sitting, lifting oneself up with both straightened arms and dropping on one’s butt) and my hooked coccyx, which was formally pointing directly forward ever since the first fracture in the playground, sustained another fracture- it was bent to one side. The third fracture happened when a therapist attempted to correct it. That was when I became an invalid overnight. 

I struggled to survive for many months. And it was several years of learning how to walk over and over as each shift created a different muscular demand and biomechanics and with it, indescribable pain of the untangling of the nerve-rich facia and all of its adhesions to my internal organs, abdomen, buttocks, and legs down to my toes. The post traumatic stress which devolved from the repeated, unexpected and severe tearing of delicate tissues morphed into general anxiety and then depression.  Years of rehabilitation and striving for healing on every level while living in intense isolation was difficult to say the least.  These were very real circumstances I had to navigate in order to do the simplest of tasks required with daily living. Over time, the incidents became fewer and farther between.

I had always envisioned working within my profession and helping people until the very last day of my life. I had dedicated my life energy and love into chiropractic, and within that profession, I had had a monumental experience after one particular session that further changed my life into being a network spinal analysis (NSA) practitioner. This moment changed my life and the specific focus of my role as a “healer.” 

Fast-forward to 2024, my husband broke his leg in July of that year and was struggling with the healing process. His second visit to the hospital on Thanksgiving eve happened to coincide with an instructional drawing video that crossed my path. By the second sketch, I had had a deeply kinesthetic experience- simply and solely from drawing and rounding and coloring! That’s it. A panic attack was avoided and I had a sense of sinking into my body in a way that is indescribable.  I was amazed, and even more so as I began to learn about this technique and its direct effect on the nerve system! 

I knew instantly that this was to be my next chapter. 

In April 2025, I will become a certified Neurographica specialist. While going through that rigorous education process, I learned that what I had done during that second drawing that elicited that great shift was actually what is called Neuro art. They are very different and both have their benefits. Both enhance what science is now proving as the Neuroplasticity of our brain and its ability to change. There is so much anecdotal and evidence based to substantiate that a daily practice of only 20 minutes of art of any kind, literally changes our brain waves! With the MicrodoseNeuro.Art co creative coloring book, your benefit is multiplied by six times! 

My desire to help people achieve a greater, fuller experience of mental and physical health and how the arts can help with that is the momentum behind the creation of this unprecedented “coloring book.” It is with much love that I offer it to you. I sincerely look forward to any feedback you feel inclined to share. Until then, it is my heartfelt wish that you find peace and relaxation that is available from within, and nurtured and enhanced through the simple daily practice of drawing lines, circles and softening the edges where they all meet.