Mary Elizabeth Yoder is an actress, producer, healer/intuitive, inspiration & empowerment coach & public speaker. Her life studies have been dedicated to healing, transformation & empowerment. In 1990, she graduated as a Master Healer from The School of Transformation & Healing, a 3-year spiritual healing course to develop her spiritual/intuitive skills, and knowledge of sacred healing practices. In 2001, she received her Credentials of Ministry from ULC, Ca. and Doctor of Divinity in 2008. In 2006 she completed the curriculum for Living an Extraordinary Life at Landmark Education. She continues to earn CEU credits. Today, she is based in Beverly Hills, California offering public speaking engagements, one-on-one healing & empowerment coaching sessions.
The Arnold C. Yoder Survivors Foundation is a charitable and educational organization dedicated exclusively for the public good. Healing hearts of children and their families grieving the loss of a loved one through art therapy, peer support groups and education. Each year, millions of young people lose a parent, sibling, or other close family member. These losses may come suddenly and unexpectedly in an automobile crash, other accidents, natural disasters, violent crime, or may be the result of a prolonged illness. While life will never be the same after a tragic loss our mission is to assist survivors embrace, channel, transform and reinvent their lives.
We also inspire survivors on both sides of tragic events achieve inner peace through forgiveness through our peer support groups, speakers bureau, one to one coaching and mediation.The Foundation recognizes that there is always two sides to every SURVIVOR story: one side is at the cause of and the other is at the impact. Both sides are effected tremendously by what happened: shame, blame, guilt, regret, anger, hate, denial are just a few of the inner torments that naturally occur. TheACY encourages forgiveness healing for oneself as well as between those who are at the cause of and those who are at the impact of tragic circumstances.
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One of the best ways to stay active in the entertainment industry is to create your own vehicles. Which MEY is currently doing as Executive Producer and Creative Art Director at Chrysalides II Intl Inc., a Core Story Production Company, she founded in 2007. Chrysalides is the cocoon stage of the butterfly, which is the most active and creative phases and the longest lifespan for the butterfly to emerge and share it's beauty with the world. It's used as a metaphor for the variety of projects Chrysalides produces giving many opportunities for artists across the board to utilize all their various gifts and talents in a safe environment to share them with the world.
Currently in production is the documentary, "Mary's Story" on the power of forgiveness. Mary Elizabeth Yoder was with seven of her family members when a drunk driver struck their car. Yoder's life went upside down and inside out until she finally learned how to create the proper environment to fully grieve the death of her father, Arnold C. Yoder. Like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, she has emerged as a powerful healer. Mary Elizabeth has taken her personal tragedy and created a miracle to benefit others... a charity in her father's honor to assist others going through the grieving process.
Today, she is based in Los Angeles and offers her skills as an Executive Producer, dedicated Actress and exuberant Host.
