Graduate Spotlight
Beatrice Fulciniti, PhD in Holistic Nutrition
This spunky New Yorker spent her first professional life as a psychological counselor for children with emotional handicaps. Over years of observation and interaction through family testing, Beatrice Fulciniti’s intuition led her to realize that her young clients’ unaddressed mood/food issues often contributed to learning difficulties that were further fueled by low self-esteem and low self-awareness.
“It was a sad, vicious cycle,” says Bea. “Inner city housing is often contaminated by lead paint, whose toxicity actually affects brain development. Of course we also know that if children do not get to eat breakfast, they are running on empty before they even arrive at school. One-parent families might either have to skip eating meals together, which leads to unsupervised mealtimes, or not even have money for food. Since I couldn’t change people’s monetary problems with food, I wanted to help people make healthier, better-informed food choices. Health awareness is an important step toward self-empowerment.”
A woman with many interests and plenty of energy, Bea learned polarity therapy at The Open Center in NYC, earned her distance learning degree in holistic nutrition from CCNH, and then co-founded ACCEPT Holistic Health and Learning Center, near Manhattan. With three master’s degrees from traditional colleges, Bea remembers the excitement of receiving huge boxes of books from Clayton College and realizing that she, herself, could choose the order of her doctoral program courses and schedule the time spent studying, all at her own pace: even while working full-time and building her own business!
The inquisitive detective work of becoming a holistic nutrition counselor fit hand-in-glove with the probing interviewing and listening skills of a psychologist. Yet as much as Bea had always loved the intensity of big-city life, during this educational metamorphosis she gradually found herself coveting the solitude a small town, with wide-open spaces. She found herself dreaming of an easier pace and a simpler lifestyle. Bea found all this, and more, near the center of Arizona – between Phoenix and The Grand Canyon.
“Many holistic health seekers are drawn to Sedona, Arizona,” she says, “because it is recognized as a Mecca of mind/body/spirit health. I know a couple of other CCNH alumni who have come here over the years for vacations and ultimately decided that this is where they wanted to be.”
Lured by the canyon energies and by the population’s great acceptance of holistic health, Bea has recently co-founded Inner Axiom, a consulting firm offering corporate seminars, retreats and motivational training from a holistic point of view. Thus she is able to blend the teachings of psychological health with helping busy professionals to create a healthier nutritional lifestyle and, in general, a more balanced approach to work, play, and relationships.
“An axiom is a truth,” says Bea. “Inner Axiom teaches team-building, relaxation and stress management, teaching people how to find their own most joyful lifestyle, and reminding us all of the deep-healing effects of safe humor within workspaces.”
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