about the author
Amy Magella Gigena
Amy Magella Gigena is a busy mom of four, devoted wife, Certified Health Coach, creative visionary, gifted storyteller, and business partner with her husband of 20 years. She ran a private coaching practice before opening a membership-based integrative wellness family practice with her husband, Dr. Tomas Gigena. Once entrenched in the successes of corporate America, she now follows her own true path of motivating others to find the truest version of themselves. Her own tapestry of life experiences has given her appreciation for the value of personal stories and how each person uses their story to define their perception of self. She understands that healthy means different things to different people and that the body is always communicating.
Amy creates space to understand a person's story so that she can better understand how to help them listen to the language of their body and activate their healing journey. She is passionate about helping her clients find the balance of mind, body, and soul in combination with conscious lifestyle habits shifts. Amy values the timeline of a person and a body map as a pivotal starting point. Guided by her adventurous spirit, she believes that being true to the authentic self is the ultimate journey in life.
The Inspiration of HeartLight
Always having an authentic heart, Amy wrote HeartLight on a creative whim while working on another book. It evolved as a creative escape during the writing process and took on a charming life of its own. She was inspired to write HeartLight after a series of unexpected life changes, living in Argentina during a volcano, and through the journey of becoming a health coach. Through her life experiences, she realized that all people no matter where they live, are in the same pursuit of something greater and cling to a part of themselves that they might have out grown. Or they reject a part of themselves that brings them true happiness because external pressure makes them think they need to be more or do more, Moving forward, addressing traumas, and staying true to our authentic self is the ultimate journey in life.
Before the pandemic Amy was blessed to travel all over the USA speaking and doing Heart Light workshops. She turned the metaphors found in HeartLight into an interactive audience experience using masks, mirrors, and timeline exercises. She dresses in costume to illustrate the word pictures and takes her audience through a series of 5 Truest You Challenges weaving passages of the book with story telling and activities for self-reflection. There is rarely a dry eye or an uninspired heart when she is done speaking.
Today she is found going between her two wellness clinics, True Health DPC and Evergreen Factor. She is entrenched in the operations along side her husband. She has taken the lessons of HeartLight and experiences of speaking about Truest You and The Story in Our Decades and turned them into emotional detox tools now used with patients. She does Body Inventory, Stress Inventory, and Timeline work to help patients understand their stressors, lifestyle themes, and strengths.
Tears of joy when the first box of books arrived back in 2016.