Hi, I’m Monica.
Author, speaker, and wholeness coach helping people move beyond the stories that keep them stuck.
I’m an author, speaker, and wholeness coach who helps people untangle the stories that keep them stuck and move forward with greater clarity, self-trust, and purpose.
My work is grounded in lived experience. I know what it means to carry the effects of adoption, relinquishment, trauma, addiction and recovery, complicated relationships, and rebuilding after profound loss. I also know that healing is not about pretending the past did not happen. It is about understanding how it shaped us, releasing what no longer belongs to us, and reclaiming who we are.
For more than 40 years, I have supported and mentored people through some of life’s most difficult seasons. Alongside that work, I built businesses, developed products sold internationally, and spent more than 30 years in business, advertising, marketing, and consulting. Those experiences taught me how deeply fear, identity, and old beliefs can influence both our personal and professional choices.
I brought everything I have lived and learned into Hall Pass to Wholeness™, a six-movement framework that helps people recognize the patterns shaping their lives, question the beliefs keeping them stuck, and realign with what is true for them now.
I am also the author of the memoir Practically Still a Virgin, which explores adoption, relinquishment, trauma, identity, reunion, and recovery.
My past is part of my story, but it is not the whole of who I am. Yours does not have to be either.
Your Hall Pass to Wholeness™ begins here.
My Values
Compassion.
I believe in being compassionate with yourself and others when it comes to your healing journey.
Accountability.
We don’t have to let our past traumas, failures, or struggles define us. Accountability is an important part of healing, learning, and growing.
Honesty.
I’ll always be honest (and sometimes unfiltered!) when I’m giving my opinion, but I’m also very gentle when needed.
Do No Harm.
I create a safe space for healing. Having empathy (without pity) is a requirement.
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A Few Things You Might Not Know About Me
I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake. I was a child in Anchorage when the magnitude 9.2 earthquake struck in 1964.
I grew up during Alaska’s wild oil boom of the 1970s. It was quite a time and place to come of age.
I’ve been a makeup artist, aromatherapist, and herbalist. I still use plants and natural remedies in my life today.
I got sober in 1984. That decision changed the course of my life.
Monica is my middle name. My birth mother named me Gloria Debra Reed.
In reunion she discovered her heritage is tied to native people of North America and that her instinct to search was well-timed because her passionate drive was matched by someone else very important to Monica who was looking for her too.