About Me!

Being a double Leo, I never get tired of talking about ME, so feel free to click on to another page if your eyes begin rolling back in your head. I grew up in Mississippi, moved to Dallas as soon as I graduated from college and lived the uber-fast Dallas life for 15 years or so. I worked in the fashion industry and my life revolved around looking good, having fun and seeing how big I could get my blonde hair. For a few years I worked for PETsMART and PETCO and loved it, but was beginning to tire of retail.

Along the way I fell in love with the sport of purebred dogs and bred Top Ranked, Top Winning French Bulldogs (including both of Martha Stewart’s Frenchies) for almost 20 years. For more on THAT, visit Jackpot! French Bulldogs. It was a lot if fun and we met some amazing people who will be in our lives forever. For that I will always be grateful. I also have my holistic dog products business, The Blissful Dog, home of the world famous nose butter and now Clearing Spray.

Right after I turned 40, I took a job as an apprentice graphic designer in St. Paul, MN and headed north. Nope, I had never lived in the cold and knew I would need boots and a BIG coat. Literally a week after I got to Minnesota, I met my future husband, Steve Vitcak. Talk about things that happen for a reason! I wanted to get married that second date, but he wanted to wait and wait and wait, for five years…so we waited five years, but get married we did! Shortly after the festive wedding we bought a fishing resort, Dancing Bear Resort, in far northwestern Minnesota and here we are! We now also raise alpacas under the Jackpot Alpacas farm name and adore them. I still have five French Bulldogs, though I am not really breeding them anymore, one Great Pyrenees, one mini-horse, thirteen alpacas and a YAK, yep, a yak. Plus, peacocks and fancy chickens are joining the parade soon. Life ROCKS here in the MInnesota big woods.

I have always had a HUGE interest in everything of a metaphysical nature. I am sure I drove my mom crazy with all my odd questions about reincarnation and UFOs growing up in rural Mississippi.

The Soul Coaching Certification was one of the most insightful experiences of my life. I have been around the block a time or ten, but this class really allowed me to look within and clarify. Thank you, Denise, for making us feel so completely nurtured and trusted. Denise created an environment of complete love, trust and natural beauty and that allowed us to open up in ways unimagined before. It was like meeting your Spirit Guide in person – ahhhh!

That was in 2007. In October of 2009, I was blessed to be able to retake Denise’s training. My husband asked if I had to repeat Soul Coaching training, I laughed and told him it was a deepening and that Denise had added a module on how to help me be the BEST WIFE ever. One does what they have to do to get a laugh…Anyway, the deepening was an even more empowering time in my life than my first time. Of course, I am not the same person and I had a basis in this amazing work, but I will say my life is even fuller than before!

I have also trained with Ronelle Coburn for Hand Analysis, similar to hand reading or palmistry, but with a more scientific basis. This work will blow you away! When I first had my hands read, I felt the lightbulb ping in my head and I KNEW I had to do more with that work. Not only do I read hands at area expos and healing centers, I am also available for online consultations. Check out The Secret In Your Hands.

Here is a quick overview of some of my more “formal” training. That is, of course, in addition to reading everything I could get my hands on for over 50 years and having been beaten with cosmic 2 x 4s for that same period of time!

My Metaphysical Training…So Far

Certified Soul Coach and Certified Past Life Coach with Denise Linn
Two Year Core Shamanism Apprenticeship with Jeanne Troge
Two Year Celtic Shamanism program with Jeanne Troge
Faery Doctoring Program with Tom Cowan
Apprenticed with Isha Lerner for the Tarot and Flower Essence
Graduate of Sonia Choquette’s Six Sensory Practioner’s Program
Graduate of Kathryn Harwig’s Intuitive Mastery program
Graduate of Ronelle Coburn’s Intensive Hand Analysis Training

Continuing astrological studies with several teachers
Conducted Tarot readings at numerous expos
Condicted Hand Analysis readings at various expos and metaphysical centers

Tarot reading instructor at Brigid’s House Healing Center
Hand Analysis instructor at Brigid’s House Healing Center
Spiritual Marketing Instructor at Brigid’s House
Hand Analysis Readings at The Twelve Houses in Grand Forks, ND