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"Engrave this upon my heart:
There isn't anyone you couldn't love once
you've heard their story."
- Mary Lou
Kownacki
I am a writer, painter, designer, graphic artist, musician, and songwriter with a deep love for all living
things, including pieces of wood, shards of glass, stones and rocks... I am also a spiritual counselor and minister "in love
with Life's elegant grace."
My formal educational background is in the Arts and in the Wisdom and mystical Religious
traditions. From my personal life and healing I bring a studied background in several other areas, including Science of Mind,
Twelve Step methodology, Addiction and Co-dependence, Inner Child/Re-Parenting work, Re-evaluation Counseling,and the evolution
of Consciousness.
I graduated from Meredith College (BA, '74) in Raleigh, NC, with a degree in Art, then briefly attended
NC State University for graduate study in psychology, but did not continue in the program because it was not a fit for me.
In 2002, I began graduate studies at Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland, where I was a member of the nation's first
Master of Arts class in Applied Healing Arts (MA, '04). In July, 2004, I was ordained as a Minister in Integrative Healing
through the ecumenical religious organization, The Association for the Integration of the Whole Person (AIWP).
As a singer-songwriter for more than thirty years, I toured professionally in the
'70s and early '80s, performing at many colleges and universities, including the University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University,
the University of North Carolina... as well as at Chicago's famed Mountain Moving Coffeehouse and the National Women's Music
Festival.
My third recording, a CD entitled "Amy Pierce In Concert," was released in June, 2003 and is a live
recording of the concert I performed in January, 2002 as a fundraiser for my graduate studies.
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