Amanda has been practicing daily meditation and prayer for most of her adult life. She has been a life-long spiritual student who has studied the teachings of The Association for Research and Enlightenment, The Chopra Center, Self-Realization Fellowship and The McLean Meditation Institute to name just a few. In 2014 she became a certified meditation instructor under the instruction of Sarah McLean. Approximately ten years ago she became and remains a devoted student of A Course In Miracles.

Passionate for world travel Amanda has traveled the globe spending time with people and cultures vastly different from her own. Her most important take-away was not about geography or tourist attractions, but about people.  It's her belief that despite outward differences, in essence, we are all much more alike than we know, and all deeply connected with one another, as if boundaries don't exist between us.

Closer to home Amanda can be found tending her roses and her favorite pastime, sitting quietly on a secluded mountain top breathing in the beauty and silence of nature.

In 2013 Amanda self-published the book, The Presence Within based on her life-changing personal experience of Divine intervention. In August of 2025 she published the updated version of the same title. Living and working in Carlsbad California, Amanda is the mother of one remarkable and talented daughter and "grandmother" to two lovely felines. She continues working in her career as an Executive and Personal Assistant.