She's not who you'd expect.

Most people who teach stress reduction learned it from a book, a retreat, or a certification program. DrChristine learned it from a life that demanded it.

She has been a newly pinned nurse at a Philadelphia General Hospital in 1974, a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, a practicing anesthesiologist, a woman who lost everything, and a federal inmate who spent her sentence reading, studying, and doing the work that would change everything.

She didn't find her calling after the hard part. She found it inside it.

Where it started.

In 1974, Christine graduated from Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing. She was young, capable, and drawn to the intensity of patient care. Medicine wasn't just a career choice, it was a calling.

She kept going. She earned a BS in Biology from Rutgers University, then in 1984 her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. From there she completed a residency in anesthesiology, entering a specialty where precision, calm under pressure,  and complete presence aren't optional. They're the job.

For years, she operated at that level. Then her body said stop.

The years that changed everything

In 2000, she was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She left the OR. The career she had built over decades went quiet, and she spent years trying to find her footing in a different kind of practice. By 2007, her marriage had collapsed. By 2009, financially desperate and professionally adrift, she made a decision she would spend years paying for.

She was indicted in 2011. It was in that moment, before the trial, before the sentence, that someone introduced her to Unity. She didn't know it yet, but that was the beginning of everything that came after.

In April 2012, she self-surrendered to federal prison. She served three years, followed by three months in a halfway house, three months of home confinement, and a year of probation. She was released from federal custody in 2016.

She will tell you those years were the most important of her life.

3 Years 

in a Federal Correctional Facility

Changed everything.

What she did with that time

She wasn't doing time. She was doing the work.

While others waited, Christine studied. Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, Ernest Holmes, Viktor Frankl, A Course in Miracles. She explored Rosicrucianism, Siddha Yoga, Buddhism, and Kabbalah, attended Native American ceremonies and Buddhist meditation sessions, and kept going deeper.

She also picked up a paintbrush. Learned piano, sewing, culinary arts, horticulture, Spanish, beading, and crocheting. Became a certified Alternatives to Violence Program Facilitator.

Then she found Toastmasters, and discovered she could hold a room.

Through it all, she kept working toward her doctorate in Metaphysical Science, completing her PhD after her release.

She didn't let it break her. She rebuilt herself.

Who she is now

DrChristine is an ordained non-denominational metaphysical minister, a Reiki Master Practitioner, a HeartMath Practitioner, and a Mindfulness Mentor. She is a licensed wedding officiant, a five-year Toastmasters member, and a keynote speaker whose audiences leave with tools, not just inspiration.

Her work sits at the intersection of medical science, spiritual study, and hard-won personal experience. She teaches what she has lived, not what she has read about living.

She serves professional women who are accomplished, exhausted, and quietly wondering if this is all there is. Women who have managed everything and everyone, with no system for managing themselves.

She knows that woman. She was that woman.