Elizabeth Barbour, M.Ed. has spent 25+ years helping people integrate mind, body and spirit for wholeness. As an intuitive life and business coach, shamanic practitioner, speaker and author, she is a creative force when to comes to releasing pain, healing wounds, transforming old stories into new beginnings, and celebrating the beauty and joy of life’s milestones. This is evident in her work in the adoption community specializing in building healthy relationships in reunion – she is both a reunited adoptee and an adoptive mom navigating reunion with her daughter’s birthfamily.

She is the author of two books: Smart Self-Care for Busy Women: Find the “Me Time” You Crave and the award-winning Sacred Celebrations : Designing Rituals to Navigate Life’s Milestone Transitions. She’s also a contributing author to Faces of Grief: Stories of Putting the Pieces Back Together and she’s writing her next book about adoption reunions.

She lives in the majestic mountains of Asheville, North Carolina.