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Words We Live By:
Where Energy Healing Meets Academic Assistance 

Admissions Essays

Tell the beautiful truth of who you are to your dream school

Tutoring

Speak your best ideas in your humanities papers clearly and compellingly

Consulting

Curricula Consulting for Schools and Organizations

Energy Readings

New approaches to providing solid foundations for your child’s emotional and spiritual development

Writing and Workshops

Freelance Writing, Editing and Workshops to support the creative dimension of the healing process 

Words We Live By is a first-of-its-kind approach to academic assistance for kids of all ages. It incorporates energy healing modalities from traditions all over the world to help students express themselves clearly and persuasively through varied forms of narrative.

Words We Live By's approach to education addresses a great need for 1) the indigenization of our educational practices and 2) an understanding of the spiritual dimension of education. By helping students (re)connect to their higher senses of Self; their present communities; their ancestors; and the beautiful earth that formed them, Words We Live By teaches students how to share their stories from a place of confidence, reverence, and joy. In doing so, Words We Live By helps students develop the compositional and rhetorical skills they will need to thrive in contemporary middle school, high school, and college environments, while also reaching for the future -- for the possibilities of what schooling could be for our next generations.

Meet Lina

Lina cares deeply about each and every one of her clients. From a decade of teaching experience at some of the most prestigious boarding schools in the United States, Lina knows how to assess students’ skills and limitations, as she helps them achieve their aspirations by meeting them where they are.

Lina has a vast and varied toolbox for helping young people gain confidence in their senses of themselves as writers, thinkers, and “gatekeepers of the new” – of the hopeful possibilities that can change our world for the better.

  • What are others saying about working with Lina?

    “Hi Lina, I am so happy that Jamie is working with you! Jamie came in to tell me how excited he is about his essay, and the ideas that he is working on in his essay. He said that he is eager to "take a risk" in his writing, his thoughts and his approach to the essay -- and it all sounds great to me! I am just thrilled that he is excited about the work process and progress, and that he is very glad to be working with you. It sounds like he is taking the time to "wrestle" with both the big picture and the word selection/sentences, so I am confident he will be proud. “

    — Dan

  • What are others saying about working with Lina?

    “Lina was a beautiful shining ray of light in our lives, she not only helped my son with her immeasurable wisdom and life changing practical tools, but also moved our whole family system around in the most angelical, compassionate and loving way. With her humble ways, she’ll tutor your children out of their afflictions while teaching them a path of light into an enlightening journey of a lifetime. I can’t express how grateful I feel for having our lives touched by her, thank you, beautiful angel.”

  • What are others saying about working with Lina?

    “Lina, Wow! I just read through your first draft and am astounded by your mastery, brilliance and ability to capture and express with words both the feelings and intellectual essence of my work!! Thank you, thank you, a zillion times thank you!”

    — Barbara Taff

  • What are others saying about working with Lina?

    “Lina is an exceptionally skillful and warm tutor. She engaged our teen son well, and she skillfully helped him identify his own underlying thinking for his essays, and then helped him expand and explore his ideas more clearly in his writing! Additionally, Lina is a very kind, warm and thoughtful person, who is absolutely a delight to know!”

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
— Emily Dickinson