A leadership life coach, a published author, a life story writer, and a teacher of arts – the art of how we frame and reframe our life stories and the art of hearing.  Within.  To each other.  Through space virtually when people are not able to be together physically and when a loved one – human or fur – has crossed to the other side.  To one’s body.  And within the soul /spiritually.  In addition, I am a business owner, advocate of cold noses as healers and a champion of unconditional listening and hope.

I have published two life-story books, one a personal memoir To the Moon and Back to Me: What I Learned from Four Running Feet. The second is Hope Has a Cold Nose, a collection of twenty-three military veteran life stories about the healing effects of service animals for veterans journeying with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and military-sexual trauma (MST).  A third manuscript is in process (Between the Dash).  

I am also on a mission to shift the planet from grief to hope, one life story at a time.  In the spaces where we struggle to look life stories in the eye. Spaces that hold grief, emotional pain, trauma, sorrow, and despair.   In the spaces where we struggle to reframe our stories from self-judgment to self-worthy, from uncertain to hope-fully, from grieving to embracing, from shame to dignity, from separated to a sense of whole.   I do this through teaching workshops, courses, 1×1 coaching, written life stories, published books, monthly blogs, and speaking engagements.

I also publish monthly hope-full articles in Good News (a local paper reaching 20,000+ readers) and have stories published in two books (Real Women Write: Seeing Through their Eyes and Kitchen Table Stories 2022) that can be found on Amazon or via a link on my web page Christinehassing.com

When I am not joyously listening to, teaching, coaching, inspiring, or reframing life stories, I immerse myself in Nature and time with friends and family, including two souls in fur with cold noses.

Education   BS from Western Michigan University; MA in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University