CKH

Christine Hassing is a life story writer/teacher, author, coach, business owner, advocate of cold noses as healers and a champion of unconditional listening and hope. She has published two life-story books, one her 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). Among the life story tellers Christine has had the privilege of interacting with include hospice end of life stories, early-stage Alzheimer’s, the aging population, domestic abuse survivors, elementary children, individuals once homeless, and to Story Circle Network (SCN) members/non-members enrolled in Fall and Winter writing courses. Christine publishes monthly hope-full articles in Good News (a local paper reaching 20,000+ readers) and via her blog “Hope Is a Cold Nose and Other Inspiring Stories” (Christinehassing.com). Christine also had the recent honor of contributing to SCN’s published books: Seeing Through Their Eyes 2022 Anthology and Kitchen Table Stories 2022. When Christine is not joyously listening to, teaching, coaching, inspiring, or reframing life stories, she immerses herself in Nature and time with friends and family, including two souls in fur with cold noses.