Ellen is a woman who knows how to laugh at life and herself, even, no especially, in difficult times. She marries heart-centered spirituality with her fierce warrior self in facing her own everyday challenges and teaches her patients and students how to do the same for themselves. She has earned this privilege through growing up in a family that was more war zone than idyllic home. As she states in her Amazon Best Selling memoir, Nothing Ever Goes On Here, “We were always on alert for the next bomb to explode.”