MEET ELAINE
I've lived a lot of life. And I'm still becoming.
I've spent a lifetime moving through different chapters of life: raising a family, caring for people I love, writing books, traveling, building new dreams as a health coach, and learning what it means to keep growing when life doesn't go according to plan.
Today, I'm interested in a question I think many of us eventually ask: What's next for me?
Living Forward grew from my own journey of asking that question and discovering that a new chapter doesn't require us to become someone different. Sometimes, it begins by learning to see the life we're already living in a new way. That's what Living Forward is about.
And that's why I'm here to share what I've learned, what I'm still learning, and The Five Keys that have become the foundation of my work.
It's never too late to Live Forward.
A Life of Chapters
My life has never followed a straight line. I've built things, lost things, started over, and discovered that some of life's biggest lessons don't arrive when everything is going well.
They arrive in the messy middle.
Through each chapter, I've learned that who we are isn't defined by one role, one season, or one difficult experience. We continue to grow, change, and discover new possibilities throughout our lives.
And sometimes, the chapter we didn't choose becomes the chapter that teaches us the most. That has certainly been true for me. And then life changed again.
The Season That Changed Everything
In October of 2025, on what began as an entirely ordinary evening, a fall changed the shape of my life in an instant, leaving me with a catastrophic injury and a ten-hour surgery to save my leg. What I thought would be just a broken leg turned into months of surgeries and setbacks, and the strange, humbling experience of learning to live in a body I no longer quite recognized.
I had spent most of my life being the one who shows up for other people, so becoming the person who needed to be cared for was, honestly, one of the hardest adjustments I have ever had to make. But somewhere in that long recovery, I came to understand that healing was never only physical. It was emotional and mental and deeply personal. I began to see it all as the messy middle, not simply the stretch of time between where you start and where you land, but the very place where the real growth happens.
That season did not stop what I had already set out to do. If anything, it deepened it, and it's a large part of why I ended up calling my brand Living Forward, not because I had arrived anywhere in particular, but because I was still, one difficult day at a time, learning what it means to keep choosing to move forward.
The Five Keys
Long before any of the fall, there was a minivan I had turned into a camper, parked somewhere quiet in the woods, and a question I finally let myself ask out loud after years of avoiding it: What do I actually want to do with the rest of my life?
What began as a way to understand my own life became a framework that grew out of my own experiences of change, transition, reinvention, and learning to listen to what I needed in each season of my life.
The Five Keys and G.I.F.T.S.: Gratitude. Intuitive Intention. Family & Friends. Treasured Wisdom. Self-Love & Care became a way of looking at life that helped me notice what was happening beneath the surface and recognize the connections between different parts of my experience.
Together they became a system for Living Forward.
Life Now
The woman I am today is still connected to every chapter that came before.
Today, I'm continuing to write, create, learn, and explore what it means to live a meaningful life through change.
My husband Michael and I have been married for over fifty years and raised four children, who gave us ten grandchildren and, most recently, two great-grandbabies. We are enjoying this season of life together, while I continue building Living Forward and sharing what I've learned through my own experiences.
These days there is also Molly, our recently adopted rescue dog who, fittingly enough, walks with a bit of a limp of her own.
My life isn't exactly what I imagined it would be.
But I've come to appreciate that a meaningful life doesn't have to follow the plan we started with.
It can evolve.
It can surprise us.
And it can still hold new dreams.
That's where I am today. Still learning. Still growing. Still Living Forward.
I hold certifications as a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Belief Coding® facilitator. I trained at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and am board certified by the American Academy of Drugless Practitioners. But truthfully, that training sits behind the work I do. It was never the reason I started doing it.
It's Never Too Late to Live Forward
Whatever brought you here today, I'm glad you came. And I hope you'll
benefit from what I am sharing with you.