Barbara McDowall is an ordained interfaith minister (The New Seminary), and founder of Authentic Lives (www.authenticlives.com).  She is a catalyst for transformation and healing providing tools and perspectives to help people access the body’s wisdom to facilitate their own transformation and healing.  Barbara is dedicated to helping others to wake up, discover who they truly are in order to live authentically, consciously, meaningfully and joyfully, right here, right now.

She has a spiritual life coaching, mentoring and healing practice and regularly offers teachings on personal and spiritual growth issues and is licensed to perform weddings, baby namings/baptisms, and celebrations of life/funerals.  Barbara also writes for the Faith column in the Guelph Mercury and is a former member of the Multi-Faith Resource Team at the University of Guelph.

She has trained with the Coaches Training Institute (USA) and has Level II and III in Etheric Healing and Level I in Quantum-Touch®.

She lives in Guelph, Canada with her wife, Gail Donnelly.