Biography

Heading a call to the service of others, Janice served in the United States Army from 1979 – 1983. During this time, she received rapid advancement to the rank of Sergeant, and was awarded the Army Achievement Medal for meritorious service.

Through the years, she volunteered for a variety of assistance programs with Holy Family Catholic Church, from holiday food and gift drives, to assisting the elderly.

Her favorite program selected a day several times a year, to offer children from such difficult home situations that they had never experienced a birthday celebration, an opportunity to attend ‘their’ birthday party at Watkins Park. On this day, Janice and her husband Vic would drive to the homes, pick the little ones up, and take them to Watkins park where they would open presents as well as enjoy a hayride, time with the animals in the petting zoo, games, sing, laugh, play and eat cake. For just a little while, their daily struggles were far from their thoughts.

During her employ with Sytel Corporation, she spearheaded an annual food and clothing drive to assist multiple abused women and children programs in Washington DC.

For several years, she and her husband purchased food and packed multiple lunches each night, so that she might offer brown bagged meals to the homeless. This well intentioned project came to an abrupt albeit humorous halt when she found herself being questioned by the police on one occasion, and on another, she was chased down a street by a homeless woman, pelted with the food she attempted to offer!

She also volunteered for Larkin Chase Nursing Home in Maryland. Whether she was participating in board games, offering manicures, reading books or simply sharing in conversation, she fully enjoyed the company of those in their autumn years.

For the past several years, she felt honored to serve as a hospice and vigil service volunteer for Hospice of the Chesapeake in Maryland, an incredible avenue for assisting those in need of end of life care. Interestingly, her hospice assistance has brought her back to Larkin Chase Nursing Home many times to assist individuals as they transition through their last hours.

Janice is a survivor of loss. Her intimate familiarity with many a ‘dark night’ led to a realization that a spiritual and emotional knowledge base is greatly needed during times of despair. This base however, must consist of understandings that resonate deeply within the individual as a personal truth. Her personal quest led her to question from a young age, the validity to her conservative religious upbringing, as well as everything from the roots to life’s generally accepted precepts to the purpose of existence itself.

Her studies, spanning more than 25 years, include Kaballah, Philosophy and History as well as the Universal Laws and Scientific Research in the field of Para physics. As she continued to gather knowledge through the theory of Tarot, Mediumship, Reincarnation, Altered States of Consciousness, the Dying process and the Stages of Grief, she noticed a synchronicity with regard to the cyclical nature of existence. She eventually formed a core philosophy that remains open to change, yet tried and true when applied to the larger questions of existence itself.

Feeling lost and alone during the bleakest nights, survivors cry out to understand 'WHY’ and the stripped bare response, 'Have faith' merely echoes within their hollow soul. Familiar with this refrain, the key motive which is has been fundamental to Janice’s investigation and the offerings she now provides for others, lies in the HOPE that can be unearthed through a personal understanding. She’s found this bridge to be especially valuable to survivors moving through the questioning phase of bereavement and grief.

Rooted in the concept of a loving divine source, her wish is that her offerings initiate the birth for an expanded awareness while encouraging the survivor to continue to search for, and formulate layers to enrich their own personal truth as they confront life's experiences moving forward. This enfoldment into their future translates to a larger sense of peace - for them and for others. Hopefully, these theories will reduce suffering and contribute towards a more thinking aware discerning universe, motivating a shift towards a perspective rooted in compassion.

Janice served as the Message Board Moderator for Evidential Medium, Barb Mallon, from 2004 - 2005. Her local TV program, 'Open Mind' (Cable Ch#77) was nominated in 2006 for 5 awards, to include ‘Best Host' and 'Interesting Subject Matter'. Janice is a member of the Rhine Research Center (for scientific studies pertaining to evidence of continuation of consciousness), the Association for Community of Transformation (ACT), and she is contributing author to the Open To Hope Foundation Internet site, www.opentohope.com. In addition, she creates Para Physic events to enhance awareness and was a contributing factor to the Open Source Science Mediumship Preliminary Trial Experiments from October 2008 – January 2009, working closely with Alex Tsakiris and evidential mediums through the United States as well as volunteer bereaved individuals throughout the world. Her desire to attract a heighten awareness to the physical effects related to the bereavement process led to the creation of an e-book and short video which are available and downloadable on her site.

As a Keynote Lecturer sharing her perspective she has appeared at multiple events in the tri-state area and is a frequent guest on radio stations as well as internet radio stations. Her passion attracted the interest of InSpirit Magazine, for which she was a featured subject and The Bowie Gazette Newspaper. In addition, her grief work has been picked up by Google News.

She is currently penning a series of short fables which will be paired with paintings. It is her hope that these sweet metaphors will offer enjoyable keys towards enhanced understanding which can enrich daily interactions for all who view them.

She remains an advocate for a more thinking, aware, discerning universe and hopes to encourage others to cultivate expansive insights into the nature of reality. She is driven to motivate a shift towards a perspective rooted in compassion and hopes that those seeking might find seeds within her apron which they too can cultivate in their repertoire towards personal truth.

An expansion in awareness offers the ability to reduce suffering and bring about relief. We truly can create a brighter tomorrow...all it takes is an Open Mind.