JoAnne Dodgson, Ed.D. is a healer, author and teacher. She has a doctorate in counseling psychology and has been apprenticing in a Peruvian shamanic tradition since 2000. She brings rich diverse experience to her holistic healing practice, offering ancient teachings and ceremonial healing ways for awakening and self-empowerment, for living with purpose and passion, for creating balance and well-being in our modern-day lives. JoAnne Dodgson writes medicine stories to inspire heart-centered ways of living. Her self-published books include: UnLeashing Love, Gifts of the Grandmother, and MoonDance Journal. She is currently writing and illustrating Spirit of Chocolate, a medicine story which celebrates this ancient sacred ceremonial food.