About Monica

For the past 15 years, it has been my mission to lead girls and women by honoring and celebrating life’s different stages from adolescents to wise women. By facilitating circles and workshops and through personal coaching, I have been a witness to hundreds of women of all ages experiencing their true innate power; by learning self-awareness, self-care, self-empowerment and more!

I draw on my corporate and non-profit experience in the fields of human services and human resources to lead gatherings that are educational, powerful and uplifting. My passion for working as a Youth Mentor has led me to work with organizations such as Big Brother/Big Sister, Salvation Army Youth Shelter and St. Vincent DePaul Society.

In my practice, I incorporate numerous healing and wholistic modalities such as spiritual psychology, energy work, Andean Shamanism, Native American Spirituality, ceremony and ritual, art, drama, yoga and more. I have studied the works of many amazing teachers such as Alberto Villoldo, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Sierra Bender, Cheryl Richardson, Don Miguel Ruiz, Abraham Hicks , Christiane Northrup, MD, SARK to name a few.

In early 2009, I completed an intensive eighteen-month journey called the Mesayok Medicine Spiral inspired by teachings, technologies & mysteries of the Incan/Andean Shamanic Tradition. I am a full mesa carrier and an ongoing student of Andean Shamanism and Native American Spirituality.

• Certified Girls Circle, Inc. Facilitator, www.girlscircle.com
• Social Action Representative, Miss Representation/Girls for a Change, 2011
• JourneyDance Teacher, Graduate 2011, Certified April, 2012
• Full Mesa Carrier, Mesayoke Medicine Spiral
• Interfaith Ordained Minister
• Everyday Magic for Girls™ Circle Leader
• Andean Shamanism Energy Work
• Women’s Rites of Passage: Reconnecting to the Source of Feminine Power
  

Herstory

"My journey of exploration and transformation began in the early 1990's. I felt empty, unsettled and was living a life with little joy, peace or contentment. I felt like there had to be something more out that could define me aside from my job. I was led to a wonderful woman who served as my spiritual mentor, the agent of change that I needed in my life. She was my beacon of light and was willing to support me as I unearthed the path back to myself. She was able to hold the space for me as I fumbled around trying to answer the questions that I kept asking myself: Who am I? What are my passions? What do I long for? What is important to me as a woman? Where am I going? Why do I feel isolated?

In 1992, I attended my very first workshop titled “The Blessings of Being Female”. It was during this workshop that my life changed. I heard for the first time, that the answers to my questions were already there deep within me, waiting for the opportunity to be birthed. I left there feeling hopeful and excited. My life was about to change…

I joined a women’s group and caught my first glimpse of what it is like to hold myself in truth and understanding, to be supported and encouraged by other women and how much we all had in common as we struggled to find our life's purpose. I felt uplifted, renewed and excited to be on a journey that was so rich in wonder and transformation. I was on the path back home to myself.

Here I am, many years later, helping other women reclaim their power and tap into their wisdom as they walk their path of soul searching and discovery. Walk in Beauty offers a way to come back to ourselves and to each other, to celebrate life changes and to learn to trust our instincts through building community, self-awareness and connection."

Dedication

The women’s work I do is in honor and celebration of my grandmother, Angela Roberta Fiengo Sedor. She was a humble woman of great character who walked the earth for 90 years with a gentle presence and grace, yet incredible inner strength. She was my mentor and my hero, a healer, teacher, wise woman and survivor. I am the person I am today, because of her guidance and never ending love that she gave to me and my entire family. She was and always will be the ultimate Matriarch.

I honor my journey as a woman because of her, as there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think of her and feel her walking along side of me. I do my best to use the tools she taught me to help other women walk their path in beauty.