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A WORLDLY EDUCATOR

WITH A PASSION FOR THE INNER VOICE😊

Brief Bio: A Canadian ex teacher/professor who took early retirement to paint, write and travel, Dr. Anne believes her 60’s were the best fun of any woman’s her age. She has published 5 books, divorced 2 men, and raised 2 beautiful children to adulthood. A rich and rewarding life.

Dr. Anne writes mostly science books, synthesizing observations and intuitions with research papers into human nature.

A Behavior Teacher, then a University Professor, in 2008 she retired from the Trillium Lakelands District School Board in Ontario where she performed psycho-educational assessments (CSI of the brain, she called it), searching for neuronal reasons a child might not be performing up to their promise. So many kids became grateful to know it was how their brains transmitted informationm thus proving their failures were not due to character defects.

Once retired, she began traveling for the 7 godforsaken cold Canadian months, living in Panama (4 years), Mexico (6 years), and Thailand (3 happiest months), enjoying her 60’s more than she could possibly imagine. Her fun life generates the most excellent writing content.

She was working as a coach online with “lost” soul-less men internationally, when in 2024 she suddenly experierenced something that she learnt is called limerence. This brilliant, passionate love affair with a Chilean lawyer, eventually waned, but the limerence curse is not being able to kick the ex out of the brain.

This is where her knowledge of intuition enabled her to rid herself of her limerence far quicker than by methods other than intuition. This became the basis of her work now as a course leader in intuition and limerence.

CHRONOLOGICAL BIO UP TO RETIREMENT IN 2008

Born in 1949, this Canadian woman, raised in England (just like her contemporary, the main book contributor, Dr. Beryl Kierkeham), has dedicated her life to education. Her journey began in 1972 as a Behavior Teacher at the notorious Thistletown Regional Centre, landing place of the most difficult to manage kids in Ontario. She loved it, finding she could turn bad boys around.

As a Special Education teacher she worked with children in Canada, the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, and Palm Beach County, Florida. Before embarking on doctoral studies in Psychology Special Education at the University of Toronto, she took 6 months to travel around the world. She believes everyone should do that eye-opening trip, preferably before age 30.

After earning her Ph.D., she transitioned from the classroom to academia, becoming a professor at the University of British Columbia and later at Trent University. She hated it, because she couldn’t be a new Prof and a new mom, and would prefer to be home with her babies, so she ended up fortuitously doing her passion, psycho-educational assessments privately and for a school board. That’s when she began studying every book on the brain (there weren’t that many then).

The killer of that joy was the required reports she had to write every night until midnight, mindful of how court judges would receive her findings on any of the kids, their futures could depend on how she wrote about them. After 14 years of that, she quit education and a great salary or have no life.

In 2008, she embraced early retirement to pursue her creative passions: writing and painting. However, her desire to help others continued. She discovered a neuroscience calling and took training in neurofeedback with electro-encephaolograms (EEG’s). She invented a dual-person screen for people who want to phase their brainwaves. (See her film “The opposite of Loneliness.”)

Beyond her professional accomplishments, she takes pride in her family. She raised two successful adult children and enjoys her relationship with her now-grown-up granddaughter.

“We are all Special Ed. Our brains glitch in some way, some times, causing us some dismay. We may stutter for a moment or be a permanent stutterer. At times or all the time, we can’t find a word we know well. We can be a lifelong physical klutz or maybe lose our balance her and there. Most disarming, we can draw a memory blank. It’s these moments that take us to empathy for those who experience glitches so often their quality of life is affected. I train people to control their brainwaves to reduce their brain glitches, or to connect deeply with another person, to reduce their loneliness. It all starts in the brain.”

PUBLISHED WRITTEN WORKS:

Books:

  • 2018 “FLASH! The Science Behind Intuition”
  • 2011 “Uneven Bars”, a memoir of a love derailed by murder.
  • 1986 “So, You Have to Go To Court!”
  • 1986 “So, You’ve Been Busted!”

Plays:

  • 2012 “Save the Seven Species” (USA Aid commissioned play)
  • 1999 “Moving to Mobay”
  • 1996 “Stiffed!

Post Ph.D. Professional Articles:

  • 2007 “Strength-Based IEP’s” in “Communique: The Publication of the Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario” (Vol. 38)

Magazines:

  • June 2011 issue of “International Living”: “My Biggest Challenge is Picking Which Beach to Visit” and “Panama’s Most Enterprising Expat”.

Inventions: