Birthed in 1993 on a university campus in the heart of a yound lady who sought how she may best serve others, and graduated with a BS and AA’s in 1994 in communication, business, and non-profit ministry focusing on education and pastoral care.
In 1996, Intrinsic Beauty was incorprated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, Intrinsic Beauty’s inception began with providing retreats for Teen Ladies and speaking at Women’s Retreats across the nation and overseas. These were oftern regional and held at high end hotels at cost only for teen girls with all volunteer staff. Theme sessions were held and concluded with honoring each teen lady in a fashion show format with family and friends in attendance celebrating the young lady for her character, aspirations, favorite Scripture, and goals and given a white rose. Heather formed a board that consisted of numerous volunteers and was on staff at a local parish and ministered to women in the Colleyville, Texas area, coordinating a leadership team of 20 and hosting monthly dinners with speakers, childcare, and dorrprizes and coordinating missions trips and retreats. Heather also provided monthly direct outreach by speaking to teen ladies partnering with the state and non-profit organizations.
In 1998, Heather began graduate school, and traveling and speaking slowed as academics were a focus. She graduated in 2000 with an academic MA inBiblical Literature with high honors, focusing on ancient languages of Hebrew and Greek and Rabbinic Lierature, with a thesis regarding the Book of Esther, and voted by professors as the Outstanding Academic MA in the Seminary.
Beginning in 1999, with marriage and motherhood in 2001, Intrinsic Beauty consisted of holding retreats and speaking, and curriculum writing, and Heather was on staff at various churches in different roles, including Senior Pastor. In 2008, her youngest was born and suffered an aquired brain injury in 2010 that resulted in an additional neurodevelopmental disorder of autism. In 2011, Heather became involved in learning the legal system and began advocacy on behalf of injured and disabled children.
In 2014, Heather began a mentoring ministry in the DC area, Intentional Encounters, and mentored twelve young professional millenials mostly involved in the government and federal agency sector with companionship and spiritual direction, meeting 1:1 at coffee shoppes and holding group gatherings in her home. In 20014, Heather also entered a 12-month Leadership Investment Intensive based on Christian Spirituality, and from 2015-2017, entered a leadership cohort at The Transformaing Center with quarterly retreats outside the Chicago area and intensive reading and application on ancient Christian Spirituality, graduating again from a partner seminary with post-master’s certification.
In 2018 to present, Heather has been creating an incremental Program focusing on spiritual practices and a way of living that is rooted in Judeo-Christian Spirituality, and has led to a transformation of Intrinsic Beauty, Inc. Heather is ordanied clergy, a registered counselor, provides life coaching, in a niche of creating a sustainable life-giving way of living, birthed out of becoming a mother of a disabled child, that requires relinquishment and resting in a deep knowing of being loved and knows that is the only fruitful place to lead.
Synopsis. Intrinsic Beauty is the spiritual practice of resting in being loved by God; and living loved, for the sake of others.
Intrinsic Beauty’s Mission is focused on encouragement and equipping projects and practices of Sacred Well-Being & Social Justice for the sake of others.
Sacred Well-Being Project ©: Intentionally living loved with soul nourishing evening and morning rituals , Sabbath, and margin on the basis of ancient Judeo-Christian faith practices substantiated by social science in order to lead with courage from a centered soul rested place of being for the sake of others. This program is tailored dependent upon one’s values, incremental, and provides the environement and opportunity for learing, mastery, and integration at a peaceful pace.
Social Justice Project: Advocacy for equal access on behalf of disabled children, on the basis of Proverbs 31:8-9. Equal Access Legal Advocacy (EALA).
Motto’s: Live loved for the sake of others. Doing from a place of being. Choose to see all through eyes of gratitude. Be before you become.
Your invitation: You are personally invited to savor intentional living practices and a soul care mentoring experience as an intentional investment. Services include a guided integrative journey toward both identifying your deepest longings beneath desires, deepening intimacy with God, and arranging your life with soul nourishing practices, margin, sustainable soul rest, fun, and sacred space for the sake of others.
Available through individual and or group teaching sessions and/or personal one-on-ones with Heather, as well as a potential small cohort accountability and conversation experiences, with the opportunity to design your life with sacred space to assess, identify, and implement soul nourishing practices and rituals that resonate with you, and that foster an environment for margin and awareness of God in the present moment cultivating intimacy and spiritual rest. Individual counseling is also an option.
Why the experience? Heather has experiences intentionally set aside three years with mentoring and quarterly retreats with silence and solitude and spiritual direction, with academic certifications after her graduate work. This experience is your opportunity to try and incorporate soul nourishing practices, learn margin, and live from your truest transforming self in an an encouraging environment for the sake of others through a growing awareness of one’s deepest longings beyond the surface and cultivating awareness and intimacy with God. We were made for relationships; this one is an intentional investment that affects the entirety of your life.
The service of the Intrinsic Beauty, Inc. Org. is grounded in Scripture and Biblical theology, honoring the Trinitarian approach to the spiritual life loving God, others, and self, while very aware of honoring those in Judiasm with Hebraic Scriptures focusing on G-d.
Intrinsic Beauty, Inc. Org. affirms the Apostles’ Creed as our statement of faith, practices are rooted in ancient Hebraic and Judaic practices in Scripture.
Intentionally Biblical in grounding, and substantiated in data with social science, drawing understanding of God and his ways from Scripture and embracing the mystery of God through his transformative process that brings us into union with God through the Holy Spirit to conform us into the likeness of Christ, living full of grace and love.
Intentionally Trinitarian in theology, paying attention to how God the Father is actively shaping ones life through the Holy Spirit in ways that through transformation reflect more of the image of Christ for the sake of others.
Intentionally Contemplative in style, characterized by an attentive resting in Christ’s presence in mentoring, coaching, counseling, companioning, and direction times, noticing the movement and activity of the Holy Spirit and best lived in community, sharing from the reservoir of rhythms of listening prayer.
In this threefold context, we grow from the wisdom and experience of our ancient faith, through Scripture, classics of spiritual formation, and through spiritual practices from Christian Scripture and history with roots in Judaism.
Other amazing women have journeyed with Heather and we are receiving sincere feedback . Here are a few comments from Intentional Encounter 2014:
“Heather is an all-around true leader. I have seen her time and time again prove her extraordinary drive for results, leadership capabilities and ministerial competence. Specifically, I have seen her handle complex discussions about interpretation of scripture in a manner that carries people along and fosters agreeability. Her church, and indeed the many people she has mentored, value her character and strong background in theology. She does not, however, wear this as a badge of honor. She is a teacher who is always ready to help others develop in Christ. She embraces responsibility and manages herself and others with the utmost professionality.”
“Heather has extremely deft people skills. Specifically, I have watched Heather interact effortlessly with people across all walks of life. She nurtures these relationships and is very caring... Heather definitely embodies the level of uncommon cross-cultural competence.”
Formal Education & Certifications
Formal Education: M.A. Biblical Literature, with Languages (2000), Post MA Certification in Spiritual Transformation (2017), B.S. in Business, Communicate Arts-English, and Social Science (1994) Fashion Merchandising & Business (1988-1992)
Other: Recognized in Marquis Who’s Who of Professional Women, Alumnus of The Transforming Center Leadership Cohort with Ruth Haley Barton (2016-2018), Alumnus of Leadership Investment Intensive Cohort and Individual Mentoring (2014), Ordained Clergy (2003), Women’s Ministry Leadership Certification (1995), Licensed Clergy (1994) , Registered Counselor as a health care provider and NPI.
Experience: Over 25 years in pastoring and pastoral counseling, mentoring, teaching undergraduate theology, retreat ministry, women’s ministry coordination, group facilitations, and public speaking in university and non-profit settings.
Donations and Investments in others are tax-deductible.
Investments and Donations make mentoring experiences and intensives possible for those who have found themselves past margin serving in marketplace, ministry, or home, or parenting children with special needs and needing mentoring for creating margin, soul care, and sacred space for intimacy with God and those who desire to grow beyond inductive study and supplication and intercession prayer.
-It affords the opportunity for leaders to strengthen and refresh the soul of their leadership for the sake of others.
-Organizational operations and support of staff mentor to invest their experience in those who lead for the sake of others.
Intrinsic Beauty Ministries, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit. All donations are tax-deductible and available through Guidestar through this link: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/75-2638906
