Ann Bracken, owner of The Possibility Project, understands transition and what it means to you as a woman. Divorce, job loss, an empty nest, retirement... these watershed moments can mean excruciating pain... and can lead to incredible growth and success. As your life coach, Ann shows you how to turn pain into healing, stagnation into growth, and confusion into self-discovery.

Of course, Ann wasn’t born a life coach. Her long career path — more than 30 years in education, linguistics, writing, and small business development — has provided a solid foundation for the evolution of her programs.

She’s certified in special education, poetry therapy, and journal facilitation. Ann's in-depth studies of how the brain benefits from the expressive arts (creative writing, art, music, drama, and poetry, and other forms of personal expression) led her to develop The Three Pillars of Hope^©, an original program for women in transition. Ann's natural talent for teaching, coupled with her expertise in brain learning theory, make her uniquely qualified as a life coach. In short, Ann knows how to survive change — and can teach you how to do it, too.

Ann’s experience in education ranges from work as a speech pathologist in schools to work with troubled adolescents in a psychiatric facility. She has taught English and reading in high school and reading strategies, composition, and professional writing at the college level.

Most recently, she co-authored and presented a paper on journaling in business education at the Global Business and Technology Association Conference in Madrid, Spain. She has also designed poetry and writing workshops for Howard Community College, The Maryland Writers Association, Charlestown Retirement Community, and the World Bank.

Ann's interviews with several renowned poets — Edward Hirsch, David Read Johnson, and Michael Collier — have appeared in "The Museletter," a publication of the National Association for Poetry Therapy. She has also published a personal essay and poetry in The Little Patuxent Review and the Baltimore Chronicle. Her series on women in transition recently appeared in On Purpose Woman magazine.