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Dare to fly higher

Bringing YOU a positive and awakening perspective on how to improve and strengthen your

Welcome... here's my story!

I am so excited that you are here and ready to design your dream life! I truly believe that you can love all aspects of your life – at the same time.

But there was a time where I didn’t. I felt stuck…

Years of relentless hustle and hard work left me overworked, exhausted, and tired of being tired. I stayed stuck in a job I didn’t like and worked for a company with an unhealthy, back-biting work culture. Coupled with relationship troubles and ongoing neglected self-care, I was unaware I was living a toxic and damaging life.

Despite my former professional success, I found myself living in total judgment. I constantly felt like I wasn’t smart enough, not good enough …critical of everything I did or said. I felt stuck, unfulfilled, indecisive, and unhappy for quite awhile because I was too scared to step into the unknown.

Can you relate?

Trapped By Reccuring Negative Patterns

My limiting beliefs lead me down a very destructive path of recurring negative patterns. As a result, personal and professional events, coupled with my impaired resilience, led to situational depression. Like others, I tried to power through my newly found mental illness by brute character alone. Because I operated as a high functioning, smiling depressive, my colleagues and family were unaware I was struggling. However, left untreated, my situational depression eventually evolved into clinical depression and on the evening of my 52nd birthday, after responding to a last birthday wish on Facebook, I attempted to suicide using a firearm.

Having survived this life-changing event….I’ve slowly, but surely, stepped out of my comfort zone and found a place where I could thrive. I learned to take back my power.

I knew that so much more was possible for me. After spending so much time focused on the external – on what was outside of me – I knew in my heart that the life I truly desired would only come from the inside.

I needed to change me, I was the common denominator that was keeping me from having the life I knew was possible.

And although it seemed completely out of reach, I didn’t give up. I was determined to figure out the key to achieving everything I’ve ever wanted in life.

Through a miraculous blend of Eastern and Western medicine, thousands of prayers and a lot of healing work–I have been depression free for 4 years!

I’ve married the man of my dreams and have never felt happier.

I have a thriving transformational coaching business.

My life is beyond blessed.

Manifesting the Life of My Dreams

I now get to live my life’s purpose. I share my powerful story of unlikely survival and use my traumatic experience as a vehicle for transformation.

I am so grateful that over the past decade, I have been able to impact hundreds to thousands of people and actually help people change their lives and grow. I’ve developed programs combining neuroscience principles with mindfulness and energetic modalities. By blending brain science, spirituality, and a comprehensive action plan for clearing anxiety, lifting mood, and enjoying life fully – I teach others how to free themselves from the past by reconditioning the mind, move beyond the limits of the known and into the quantum fields of infinite possibilities and lead an extraordinary new life. I can honestly say, I am absolutely happy, absolutely free, and absolutely fulfilled in all aspects of life.

I can’t wait to partner with you and help give you the skills and courage to design a life of your dreams.

And no matter where your life is now, you can turn it around fast. If I can do it, so can you! And I can show you how.

Fun Facts About Me ...

I skipped my senior year of high school and went to college at 16 years old; joined the Marine Corps at 17 years old.
I was on the cover of Hawaii Marine, Marine Corps Base Hawaii’s newspaper.
I flew to Denver to adopt a dog (Emerson) and spent 3 nights in the airport because we were snowed in.
My favorite vacation spot is the beach — ANY BEACH.
My favorite home state has been Louisiana.
My favorite city is New Orleans.
I am equally an extrovert as much as I am an introvert.
Even though I am super ‘zen’, my favorite genre of music is the blues.
My dream vacation is Bali.
I suffer from Tsundoku, the act of acquiring books and not reading them.
I’ve lived in 15 different states.
I have a wicked (and warped) sense of humor.

SHORT BIO

DeAnn Wandler-Vukovich is a nationally recognized expert and speaker on the topics of chronic stress, executive burnout and fatigue, as well as personal and organizational cultures of self-care and wellness.Through her coaching, trainings, webinars, and keynotes, DeAnn helps hundreds of individuals find their way to a full and thriving life.

DeAnn brings with her a wealth of experiences, which she shares with raw candor, passion, and humor. DeAnn’s reputation as as coach, speaker and trainer is built on her tremendous capacity to address challenging topics with compassion and warmth while creating a safe and supportive spaces where participants can share deeply about their experiences and engage in organic process of finding practical, yet profound solutions for unique challenges experienced on individual and organizational levels.

In addition to her 17 years in higher education, DeAnn holds certificates in mindfulness, meditation, and reiki. She is a Transformational Breath Facilitator, as well as a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT200). DeAnn has been Narrative Coach trained and is a certified Brain-Based Coach from the NeuroLeadership Institute, a coaching approach rooted in contemporary neuroscience, using the latest insights into how the brain works to create yet more powerful, positive and transformational changes for the coachee. She lives in Alliance, OH with her husband, and their adopted rescue Yorkie, Emerson.