Loren’s background includes a deep appreciation for the scientific, the psychological, as well as the mystical. She has a BA in Psychology from the University of Oregon and an MA in Counseling from Oregon State University, was a Licensed Psychotherapist working in the field of addictions-recovery and dissociative disorders in Santa Fe, NM. She is a Certified Nonviolent Communication trainer since 2005 and has worked as a life coach over the last nearly twenty years, integrating her various backgrounds to support couples and families to find tenderness, joy and connection through mutual understanding, and to support collaborative group endeavors for systemic change.

Her intention for The Earth Keeper’s Handbook is to multiply the beneficial effects of what she has to share. Specifically, “to awaken to our connectedness with life and assume a leadership role in co-evolving our experience from separation to connection internally and in our relationships and apply it to collaborating in order to expedite the work here for us to do.”