INTERVIEW

OPENING QUESTIONS

 

 

1. Was there a particular experience, transition, challenge, or turning point that shaped the direction of your work or perspective?

 

I was a successful solopreneur in the jewelry design business with a 7-figure business, and I faced a daunting wakeup call one morning.  I woke up one morning and every muscle and joint in my body severely hurt.  I couldn’t get out of bed because of excruciating pain.  Over the days to come it didn’t go away, and I could not function.

 

After 5 rounds of tests with my MD, I was misdiagnosed and brushed off.

 

I embarked on a journey to discover the root cause of what was happening to my body.  Unveiling autoimmune disease (Fibromyalgia, and then later Hashimoto’s and IBS), and Type II Diabetes, I realized that I had been doing everything to make my business a success, except to practice self-care.  My relentless work ethic and unhealthy lifestyle habits were the culprits.  I literally had bankrupted my body while building a successful business.

 

I refused to live a life of pain and pills as my fate, so I did research, followed Function Medical practitioners, overhauled my diet, started eating all the colors of the organic rainbow, and started Tao Yoga to eliminate stress that had lowered my cortisol to borderline Addison’s disease.  And I systematically began to eliminate toxins in all my products and areas of my life.

 

It took 5 years before I started feeling good again.  I found my own Functional MD and she took me the rest of the way back to Feeling Great.   I had undergone an incredible transformation including losing 75 pounds without dieting.    I reversed all my autoimmune diseases, my Type II Diabetes and the Fatty Liver disease I discovered by accident some years into my wellness journey.  I lost 75 pounds without dieting by eating the organic rainbow.  In addition to eliminating every toxin I could find in my environment. I changed my other lifestyle habits, my sleep-ensuring 7 hours a night, daily movement, learning stress releasing exercises, getting a filtering system on our water and more.  Now77, I feel better than I did in my 50s.  I then pursued an education in holistic health, as I was eager to share what I had learned and implemented.

 

Celebrate your wins

 

I sold my business, returned to school at 67 to become a certified health coach, and started talking to others everywhere I went.  We have far more power than we have been allowed to believe over the wellness of our body.

 

Today, known as the health muse, my goal is to be a beacon of hope for those battling chronic illnesses. (Autoimmune Diseases, Heart Disease, Liver Disease, Cancer, Dementia and more.)  I was recently certified by the American Brain Council to teach their course on brain health. Dementia is now considered to also be an autoimmune disease.

With my superpower of finding holistic solutions, I empower clients to reclaim their health and vitality.  I encourage everyone to take back their power to pursue their wellness. (And now to live their life).  Through books, classes, coaching, podcasts, speaking, summits and more, I inspire others to embrace the journey to wellness, having proved that nothing is impossible when it comes to feeling great and living well.

I am now living the best years of my life.

 

 

 

My passion is to work with clients with chronic illnesses to help them regain balance and wellness. My current goal is to also help entrepreneurs realize they can’t be great if they don’t feel great, so practicing Radical Self-Care is crucial to find lasting success. And my practice now also includes working on mind set so that the client believes that they have the power to heal, and I concentrate on giving the hope that they do have the power to reverse these debilitating diseases.

Eating the organic rainbow and adopting my 20 pillars of health, my Fibromyalgia, Hashimoto’s and IBS are in total remission; I no longer have diabetes or a fatty liver and I feel great. My goal is to inspire others to enjoy feeling great as well.

 

1. My 20 PILLARS OF HEALTH: A Guide to Wellness
2. Ditch the SAD (Standard American Diet)
3. Eat the rainbow of organic whole organic foods and Clean Meat that Eats his own Specific Diet
4. If you do eat meat, make it clean meat: Pastured, 100% grass-fed, with no antibiotics or hormones. Eat wild fish.If Vegan or vegetarian, make sure to include non-GMO plant-based protein.
5. If it is on the “Dirty Dozen” list, absolutely buy organic.Avoid GMOs. They have toxins grown right in the plant food.
6. Cook your own real food.
7. Create a strategy for eating. Give all your food and water gratitude.
8. Detox off the sugar.Eliminate “fake sugars”. (The blue, pink, or yellow packets)
9. Avoid unnecessary use of antibiotics or over-the-counter painkillers.
10. Only use Omega-3 oils. Avoid Omega-6 oils.
11. Never use conventional salt. Use sea salt, Celtic salt, Kosher salt, or Himalayan salt.  They provide well-needed minerals.  Cooking the rainbow eliminates the excessive salt in processed foods.
12. Cook with organic garlic, onion, and fresh herbs. Diversity is key.
13. Drink lots of water, with a little lemon juice in it.
14. Toss the environmental toxins in your home
15. Do stress exercises twice a day to take the top off your stress. Control your ANTs (Anxious Negative Thoughts).
16. Stay active.Move
17. Spend at least 30 minutes outside enjoying nature.
18. Get at least 7 hours of continuous sleep.
19. Work to make all your relationship healthy and supportive.
20. Build a healthy community. The Blue Zone project by National Geography on the healthiest communities in the world considers a healthy community to be #1 for your health.

 

Love yourself.

 

MANIFEST a great life.  Let me show you the way.

 

 

 

2. What belief, philosophy, or truth sits at the heart of the work you do?

 

My Superpower is to find and create different avenues to health. Nothing is Impossible. Embrace the possible.

 

Impossible is for the unwilling.  You truly can do anything you set your mind to.

Own your own health.  Own your own life.  Your thoughts become your reality.

I do not believe in failure.  Failing is temporarily how you discover what doesn’t work so that you can try again and win.

Self-love is the foundation for all your hopes and dreams.

Health is a journey. It is not a destination. You keep trying different solutions until you solve each puzzle piece on your journey back to wellness.

I feel great and want to inspire you to do the same.

Be your authentic self and return to love. Quiet your mind which is ego.  I practice Heart Math.  Go into your heart brain, which has as many neurons as your brain has, but your brain is ego.  Ego likes the status quo and wants to thwart change. Fear lives in your ego, shut it down.  Love and compassion and gratitude live in your heart brain; learn to tap into those higher vibrations and manifest all your hopes and dreams.   Live in higher frequencies of self-love, love, kindness, compassion and gratitude.  Your heart brain in those frequencies is the radio signal to the universe for manifestation of your hopes and dreams.  The goal is to create heaven on earth for yourself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

PURPOSE & CONSCIOUS SUCCESS

 

 

3. What does “living in alignment” mean to you personally?

My feet hit the ground every morning and I am already happy.  Eating the rainbow turns on all my happy hormones.  Living in alignment is living in balance.

 

Eating the rainbow also feeds my chakras energy of its corresponding color and allows my operating system to return to balance.  Leading with my heart brain, putting love, joy, compassion, kindness into the world, noticing glimmers all create a happy life.  Expect miracles, Create miracles.  The God Code lives in our DNA allowing us to be co-creators with the universe.  Create our own magic and enjoy all the glimmers in our day, sit with them and feel the glow. Self-love commits us to healthy lifestyle habits.  Living in our higher frequencies allows us to create Heaven on Earth.  The goal is to feel good in all aspects of our life.

 

 

 

IDENTITY & REINVENTION

1. What have you learned about identity through your own periods of change or reinvention?

We were born onto this plane to return to our authentic self. Our goal is to hone our ability to put more love into the universe, to become our authentic self (everyone else is taken.  *smile*  Oscar Wilde), to radiate joy, to be healthy, to be happy and joyful, to be love, to achieve our wildest dreams. We are co-creators with the universe.  We have way more power than we have ever been allowed to believe.

 

2. What does true reinvention look like beyond changing careers, roles, or circumstances?

Being unstoppable and knowing we can create our own life.  Nothing truly is impossible, but we must believe and implement.  Our thoughts create our reality.  And we must be willing to do the work to make everything we want possible.

 

 

SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE & INTUITION

1. What does intuition mean to you beyond the way it is often discussed online?

Intuition is your ability to sense, know, and understand something without consciously working through all the steps of logic. It’s often described as a “gut feeling,” an inner knowing, a quiet nudge, or a sense that something is right—or wrong—even before you can explain why.

From a practical perspective, intuition is my heart brain and my gut rapidly processing information, experiences, patterns, and observations that may not yet have reached conscious awareness. Sometimes it notices things long before my logical mind catches up or diverts me.

What Intuition Feels Like

When I touch in with my gut, my intuition, I have to get quiet and listen.  It’s a quiet inner voice that just “knows”.    It’s a sense of certainty without questioning why.  And I get a sense of peace that lets me know my intuition is on track.

Intuition says:

• “Pay attention.”
• “This isn’t for you.”
• “This feels right.”
• “Wait.”

Fear tends to create anxiety and contraction. Intuition often brings clarity, even when the message is challenging.

I practice breathing, gratitude, and Heart Math, so intuition often becomes easier to hear as my nervous system shifts from fight-or-flight (fear) into a calmer state.

 

 

2. Check In With Your Body

My body is constantly providing information.

When considering a decision, ask:

“How does my body feel when I imagine saying yes?”

Then ask:

“How does my body feel when I imagine saying no?”

Many people notice:

• Expansion, ease, warmth = possible alignment
• Tightness, heaviness, contraction = something to investigate further

3. Use Heart-Focused Awareness

Since I already work with Heart Math concepts, I try this:

1. I place my attention on my heart.
2. I Breathe slowly and comfortably.
3. I recall a feeling of gratitude, love, or appreciation.
4. I bring my decision to mind.
5. I ask:
   • “What would best serve my highest good?”
   • “What choice creates the most peace?”

Then listen without forcing an answer.

Some find insights arise over the next few hours or days rather than immediately.

4. I Ask and Release

Instead of obsessively trying to solve a problem, I ask:

“What do I need to know about this situation?”

Then I go for a walk, garden, cook, take a drive or do something enjoyable.  Sometimes I ask before I fall asleep and then know the answer in the morning.

Intuitive answers often arrive when the analytical mind relaxes.

Over time I have discovered how my intuition communicates with me and how it feels when it is the right direction for me.

 

 

 

 

2. How has spirituality, consciousness, or inner awareness influenced the way you live, work, or make decisions?

 

I love my Heart Math practice where I quiet my brain, stop it from talking trash to me, and can ditch any fear it is feeding me to maintain the status quo.  I breathe until I am calm and firmly resting in my heart’s energy.  This is where my intuition is the strongest because being in this space allows me to tap in and listen to my inner voice.  This is where I can go into love and then quietly check in with my gut to make decisions and to be my most creative.

 

By staying in the higher vibrations in my heart and then going into the world to touch others with love and joy, this energy has begun to influence all of my relationships and the way that I interact with others.  It has influenced the way that I see the world.  And if I confront darkness, I sit with it until I can alchemize it back to light and let the dark go.  I have learned to honor alone time so that I can “hear” myself.

 

I have learned from my heart math practice, that this puts me at the perfect radio signal to communicate what I plan to manifest in my life.  It is through gratitude that the universe knows what I desire more of.

 

 

 

 

 

 

RELATIONSHIPS, COMMUNICATION & AUTHENTIC SELF-EXPRESSION

 

1. What have you learned about the barriers that stop people from expressing themselves honestly and authentically?

 

If you don’t love yourself, you are afraid to be who you came to this plane to be.  We were born to return to ourselves and that means finding our self-love and living it. We are the only us that will ever exist, everyone else is taken.  Spending alone time and getting comfortable with who that authentic self is and then showing it to the world is why we are here.

 

By living in self-love our relationships begin to mirror our own love, and we attract like souls into our orbit.  I have an incredible relationship with my husband and our goal is to separately be our authentic self, and then to make each other happy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. What has your work taught you about the relationship between communication, identity, and self-worth?

 

Allowing our authentic selves out attracts our tribe.  And when we live in that space, everything flows, and relationships become easy.  Living in our truth, our ethics, our own self-love becomes non-negotiable.  And this is where we find our self-worth.  We get out of our own way to create what it is we want to achieve.

 

NERVOUS SYSTEM, HEALING & HUMAN POTENTIAL

 

1. What do you think people are most disconnected from today, and what helps them begin finding their way back to it?

 

I think we are disconnected from our power to create our lives. And we don’t need to be.  We have the power within.

 

I believe that everything is frequency.

 

Our food is frequency. That’s one of the reasons I encourage people to eat the organic rainbow. Every colorful fruit and vegetable carries its own unique nutrients, energy, and gifts for the body.

 

Our breath is frequency. Intentional breathing helps eliminate stress, calm the nervous system, and shift us from fight-or-flight into the parasympathetic state where healing, restoration, and peace can occur.

 

Our thoughts are frequency.

 

Our emotions are frequency.

 

Our words are frequency.

 

I believe that being authentic, living in self-love, and then allowing that love to overflow into the world creates a powerful ripple effect. I strive to be the change I want to see in our world by leading with kindness, compassion, gratitude, and love.

 

I also believe in connecting with Source through the wisdom of the heart. When I use my heart-brain, cultivate gratitude, and anchor myself in self-love, I feel connected to something far greater than myself which I refer to as the Universe or Source.

 

From that place, I create.

 

From that place, I heal.

 

From that place, I love.

 

And from that place, I can begin to create my own version of Heaven on Earth.

 

One choice, one breath, one loving act at a time. ❤️

 

 

This has impacted everything in my life, including all my relationships. I am currently living the best years of my life.  Getting sick and losing my health was a gift that brought me where I am today.  Everything has changed.  Everything is better.  And I now not only Feel Good, but I am happy from the inside out.

 

I have learned that the programing in our subconscious was in place by the time we were 7 and that it is the program that our conscious life is run by.  I was trained in PSYCH-K so that I can help people change subconscious programing that is hindering their ability to create their dreams.

 

 

 

 

2. What helps people move from self-protection into self-trust?

 

We have 3 brains.  Our brain is where the ego lives, and the ego wants to maintain the status quo.  It operates on the sub-conscious, which was developed from conception to age 7.  To change, those “known truths” which were programed into us have to change and all things need to become possible.  The ego talks trash to us and talks fear.  The key is to live in love.

 

Our heart has as many neurons as our brain does, but that is where self-love, love, kindness, hope, forgiveness, compassion, gratitude and possibilities exist.  I practice health math so that I can utilize the power of my heart brain.  It’s a beautiful place to be, and it’s where the universe (God or source) can hear what I desire to manifest.  It’s a beautiful place to spend time.  And it’s where I have learned to love myself and to find trust in being unstoppable.

 

Then my gut is where my intuition lives.  When I am in my heart brain, if I get quiet and listen, I can hear my intuition speak my truths to me.  Trusting my intuition is where I plan my steps forward, living in my self-worth.

 

I believe in listening to my body.  I am amazed at just how smart my body is.  It speaks the language of symptoms and if I listen to it it is very honest with me.  Staying in touch with my body prevents me from returning to the diseased state that I overcame.  Talking to my body give me permission to heal and to create my reality.

 

 

 

 

 

CLOSING QUESTIONS

1. What is one lesson life or work has taught you that fundamentally changed the way you see yourself or the world?

 

I can do anything I set my mind to.  Nothing is impossible.  In fact impossible is only a choice.  Being unstoppable is also a choice.  Self-love is my foundation for success.  And showing myself that love through my daily habits allows me to be a co-creator with the universe of all my hopes and dreams.  By staying in the upper vibrations of self-love, love, kindness, compassion and gratitude, and using my heart brain in meditation, I am at the right radio signal for the universe to know what it is that I want to manifest for myself and for my world.  I have the power to create my own reality.  The goal in this life is to return to self, and to Feel Good in all we do.

 

 

What do you hope people feel, remember, or take away after experiencing your work?

 

 

I have learned over my 15-year journey back to wellness, that there are some “truths” to what happened to me, that I have only recently begun to concentrate on in my coaching to help others be successful in their wellness journey.

 

 

When you are tired of feeling lousy and ready to return to Feeling Great Again, these are the self-evident truths.

 

 

• You must believe that if you own it, you will find solutions to return to wellness. You must believe that you will get well, and you must block out the naysayers. Naysayers come in all sizes and varieties. They could be your family, your friends, your medical professionals, your co-workers, your significant other…..and they will be everywhere. You must stay in your own truth that you can  ignore this and keep moving forward and commit to the new version of you that you are creating each step of the way.  You must live as if it already has happened.

 

 

• You must leave no rock untouched, or unturned, and continue to search for your own puzzle pieces, and as you find them, you must implement them. They may or may not all work, but you never give up on the possibility. And if one of your solutions does not work you continue to search for a better solution.

 

 

• You must give yourself grace and emotional support as you go through the process.  I tell myself out loud that I love myself every morning.

 

• You must DECIDE TO ACT or nothing will change.

 

 

Determination to have, becomes determination to act.

 

 

The ACTION that you take gets you out of your comfort zone.

 

 

And your certainty is that NO ONE IS GOING TO TALK YOU OUT OF THIS.

 

 

Take Action

Be unshakable

This is your unshakable truth

THIS IS WHAT ACTIVATES THE INVISIBLE TO BECOME VISIBLE.

YOU KNOW YOU HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO MAKE IT TRUE.

 

 

• Being well and feeling great becomes your central purpose. This includes all aspects of your life. Your food, your lifestyle, your self-love, how you love others and the world and how you allow others to love you. And you must know, when you begin to share your journey and solutions with others, you have begun to find your purpose.

 

 

• And you move forward with a relaxed certainty that wellness is in the process of happening. That wellness is within your reach.

 

 

• In your journey, you must learn to stop limiting yourself. Conventional approaches, holistic approaches, functional approaches, naturopathic approaches, everything is on the table, and you approach each new puzzle piece with the belief that it WILL work until proven wrong.  If it doesn’t work you find a new healing path to explore.

 

 

• Learning to live in your heart brain, returning to your spiritual beginnings and reconnecting to it once again, is all part of your journey back to love for self, love for others, love for the earth, and reconnecting with the universe. It is in this space that you begin to manifest wellness.  It is in this space that you become a co-creator with the universe.

 

 

Most likely if you have developed chronic illness, you have lost touch with some of the things above and you must get back in touch with each of them one at a time. Don’t allow your illness to prevent you from exploring all the aspects of love above. Returning to balance and returning to wellness are all part of the journey to return to self and remembering.

 

 

 

 

I care about others enormously and have created many resources for others who need to own their own health and take back their power.  And I have created 20 pillars of health for clients to adopt one at a time.

 

An ideal client is someone ready to own their own journey and to implement what they learn.

 

 

2. What does success from the inside out mean to you personally?

My thoughts are energy, so spending time in my heart and my gut and quieting my ego are all part of my inside out journey to wellness.  As within so without.   We are vibrational beings, so living in the upper end of the vibrational chart is connected to how I appear to the world and the inner health I create in my body.  Its where I feel great.

Being happy and living in my joy is all part of my wellness journey.  I want to live a life to become part of the change I want to create in the world.

 

 

One of my favorite quotes:

“Depending upon the commitment to your goal, a permanent choice becomes a permanent solution.
A temporary change is a stay of execution.
No choice and nothing changes.”
Carlos Garcia, MD

 

 

 

 

 

 

Her new ebook on Radical Self-love was published in 2025 and is available as a flip book on ISSUE along with my Magazine on Holistic solutions, The It Feels Good to Feel Good Magazine, my Its Not Complicated, How to Eat ebook and my Desktop Guide to Stress Ebook that are all free on the ISSUU flip book website. My goal is to raise awareness about nourishment, wellness, self-love and how they all lead to manifestation of your hopes and dreams.  Her goal is that everyone feels as great at 77 as I do.

I have a series of free digital ebooks underneath my magazine on Issuu.

 

 

 

 

These are her award winning books available on Amazon.

https://bit.ly/Cherylauthorpg

 

 

 

I have 2 award-winning books on Amazon about my get-well journey that combined have won 24 awards. It Feels Good to Feel Good, Learn to Eliminate Toxins, Reduce Inflammation and Feel Great Again. (17 awards) And Feeling Good, Living Low Toxin, (7 awards) which share tips on how I sustain my new healthy lifestyle.

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, I have a cookbook of my Rainbow recipes available on my website store.  My recipes share how to source the healthiest ingredients with food tips.

 

 

 

My passion is to work with clients with chronic illnesses to help them regain balance and wellness. My current goal is to also help entrepreneurs realize they can’t be great if they don’t feel great, so practicing Radical Self-Care is crucial to find lasting success. And my practice now also includes working on mind set so that the client believes that they have the power to heal, and I concentrate on giving the hope that they do have the power to reverse these debilitating diseases.

Eating the organic rainbow and adopting my 20 pillars of health, my Fibromyalgia, Hashimoto’s and IBS are in total remission; I no longer have diabetes or a fatty liver and I feel great. My goal is to inspire others to enjoy feeling great as well. I have books, classes, podcasts, cookbooks, and I do private coaching to support this process.