About Joy

About Joy

April 03, 20241 min read

Joy's Lifelong Journey

Joy continues to be a life-long learner who is passionate about deeply listening and guiding others toward their innate wellbeing. She has been studying this psychological/spiritual understanding for several decades and is very appreciative of all her teachers and mentors who have supported her on this path. To learn more about how this was pivotal in her life, you can click the link to her blog article, The Missing Piece.

Educational Career

Joy’s career has been in Education where she worked for Michigan State University Extension and University of Nevada Cooperative Extension as an Educator for over 23 years with a focus on children, youth, and family programming. She enjoyed facilitating leadership training programs for adults and teens at the county level as well as state-wide and internationally.

Current Endeavors

Currently, she enjoys facilitating women’s groups, and coaching individuals. She has recently completed certification as a Rewilding Guide and as an Eden Method Practitioner based on Donna Eden’s work in Energy Medicine.

Joy is a proud mother to her daughter Lindsay and her son Aaron, and enjoys time with her adorable granddaughters, Eula and Ruby. In her free time, she enjoys swimming, hiking, dancing, camping, exploring nature, reading, and traveling the world.

About Joy
Joy Belonga
Joy Belonga is a Three Principles coach and life mentor in Bend, Oregon. She works with women in the second half of life who have done all the self-improvement and still feel like they are going through the motions. Her work begins with the understanding that nothing is missing. She listens people back to their own wisdom, and they leave feeling lighter, calmer, and more connected to themselves than they have in years. She is the author of JoyRide: Trusting the Magic of Life.
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