About

Welcome to the Fox Ridge Wisdom Community where we offer participants the opportunity to explore mindfulness meditation practices, find personalized support, and to uncover the inherent goodness that exists in each of us and in the world.

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I have been blessed with a nearly 40-year career in health care. In my early clinical years, I worked with patients who had serious chronic and terminal diagnoses. It was during those years I began to experience a deep and abiding awareness of the common humanity and deep spiritual identity we all share. I was privileged to be at the side of hundreds of patients (and with their families) over an 11-year period as they transitioned away from this life and on to the next.

I eventually moved away from my clinical practice and over the past 25 years I have been a health care leader, a senior corporate health consultant, a corporate director, and an instructional facilitator.

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In 2010 and after a series of personal crises and losses, I entered what I eventually learned was a ‘dark night of the soul’ that lasted 5 years. During those years I confronted everything I had come to believe and through a long and painful process of letting go and letting be, I began to emerge out of that dark night and enter a new experience of living that is guided by grace, by blessing, and most importantly by compassion and an abiding search for wisdom. It is during those early days of unfolding transformation that my own contemplation and mindfulness practices began to evolve. I have now been a committed mindfulness meditation and contemplation practitioner for 10 years.

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In 2021 I was asked to speak to a class about meditation. Soon after that, I completed my first mindfulness meditation course (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for Health Professionals) followed by many other courses as the opportunities to teach continued to present themselves. By 2023 I was teaching introductory mindfulness meditation workshops, so it was time to explore becoming certified as a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher and Mentor. In 2024 I received my certification as a Mindfulness Meditation Mentor from Banyan https://banyantogether.com/ and in early 2025 I completed my Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Certification Program from Mindfulness Exercises https://mindfulnessexercises.com/.  

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As you explore our services and our blog, I hope you choose to join us as a valued member of the Fox Ridge Wisdom Community.

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Peace and every good to you.

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Annamarie Fuchs