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Bio of Marie H. Beach

The hallmark of Beach’s career path has been helping people reach their goals. Personal and career coaching is its culmination. As an award-winning writer, editor, author, small business owner, publisher, public relations specialist, she has received recognition for her work as a community activist, a governmental board member and as a grant recipient from The United States Justice Department to work with inner city children in writing a script that aired on NPR. Beach is a long time teacher, workshop and seminar presenter for both small and large companies. As a one time lecturer at The Medical College of Virginia in its Alternative Medicine program, Beach believes to feel alive we are called upon to take risks and dare make changes when they are called for.

As scary as that may seem Beach has done it enough times to know that taking a risk, and making changes is not only enervating, but life-sustaining. She knows personally, and in working with clients, that despite the fears we have around change, it beats floundering and feeling the life-draining torpor that stuckness brings. Coaching helps change, risk and transition easier and more thoughtful. She quotes John Whitmore, author of Coaching for Performance, who wrote that “we can choose to change ourselves or get left behind in a treacherous backwater.” Beach is particularly interested in health and wellness issues believing that expressing yourself creatively and with integrity is one of the best pro-active steps one can take for wellness.

"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."

— Bertrand Russell