Meet Valerie

My coaching and teaching has one focus: help people I work with experience life as it is. The present moment is the source of all effective action.

Welcome! I’m a writer on Substack, a meditation teacher on Insight Timer, and a life and leadership coach.

Writing and art-making are integral to my life! In my Substack newsletter, Glorious Ordinary, I publish personal essays about universal themes, and write with honesty and insight about 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.

I am a skilled executive coach on the BetterUp platform, and support senior leaders, directors, and individual contributors to master an array of issues. My niche is helping women 40+ navigate the consequences of workplace bullying and abuse. I draw on lived experience of workplace bullying and intimate partner violence and am happy to share what I’m learning in my ongoing healing journey.

As an Insight Timer teacher I share guided meditations, talks, readings and courses on living in the present moment and being aware of how negative thoughts and beliefs cloud our understanding.

To learn more about my coaching, writing or teaching, click the button below and we can talk about your interests, needs or concerns. Be well!