Judi "Jlo" Moran

• Gender: Female
• Astrological Sign: Pisces
• Industry: Arts
• Occupation: writer, speaker, life coach, Amazon bookseller
• Location: newberg : oregon : United States

About Me

Growing up in the midwest in the 50’s: cute, spunky, the apple of daddy’s eye. Losing my daddy suddenly at twelve. Moving far away to a new school. Excluded: a wall-flower. Moving again, late high school. Coming into my own: first boyfriend, popularity. College in sunny California, drama major. First job teaching school. Moving to Colorado: a blind date, “love, marriage, and the baby carriage.” Mothering and teaching in a little town in Oregon. 13 major hospitalizations, bouts with migraines, depression. Manic episode at 41 - a watershed experience. A decade later, after 27 years, the marriage falls apart. Eight years of slow healing, a weight gain of 45 pounds, chronic pain. Feeling abandoned, unlovely. 2006 - a healing journey out of pain meds, sleeping pills, anti-d's, into health, energy, vitality, and joy. Now a new career: life coach, writer, speaker. My journey defined throughout by my strong faith in God and desire to be used in others’ lives. Now, at 63, I am seeing that dream come true.

Interests

• People
• people
• people. And what makes them tick.

Favorite Movies

• Gone With The Wind
• Sand Pebbles
• The Triplets of Belleville...I'll have to give this more thought and get back to you.

Favorite Music

• Everything from classical to jazz to early rock-n-roll to gospel. One of my all-time favorite songs: Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
• a '60s hit.

Favorite Books

• Since my late teens when I was introduced to Thoreau
• I've claimed that if I were stranded on a desert island and allowed one book to read
• it would be Walden. When I recommitted my faith at 26
• I added the Bible. Now
• almost 40 years later
• the list has not changed.