Meet the Contributors:

Mandy Greene is a Personal Trainer and fitness instructor at Forever Fit in Biddeford and has been in the Fitness Industry since 2000. She started off teaching group fitness classes at Gold's Gym, as she pursued her BA Degree in Dance from the University of New Mexico. Mandy received a one-year scholarship on behalf of the Friends of Dance and also the first annual Bill Evans Senior Exiting Award for Excellence in Dance. Mandy moved to Boston in 2004 and joined Boston-based dance company Rainbow Tribe. While in Boston, she completed her Personal Training Certification through AFAA and worked at Crunch Fitness/Bally Total Fitness training and teaching group classes.
Mandy resides in Maine where she works at Forever Fit, a Personal Training/ Pilates Studio. Mandy has completed her full Pilates certification, Mat and Apparatus, through The PhysicalMind Institute. She is a certified Zumba instructor and has completed her level I & II in willPower & grace barefoot training. Mandy is a Level I Reiki Practitioner. She also is the director and choreographer for Coastal Xtreme Cheer, a competitive cheering team based at Dudziak's School of Gymnastics.

Darrin Landry has worked in a variety of specialties as a military trained certified surgical technician.  In 1989, he became an ophthalmic photographer and technician specializing primarily in retina.
He is the president of Bryson Taylor Inc., an ophthalmic consulting company, founded by he and his wife started in 1999. As a speaker, consultant and trainer, Mr. Landry has presented at workshops internationally and is a frequent lecturer for JCAHPO, OPS, ASORN and the AAO and is a consultant for imaging companies, pharmaceutical companies and medical practices.
He is a Certified Retinal Angiographer and an Optical Coherence Tomographer - Certified, has served as a Subject Matter Expert for the Ophthalmic Photographers' Society Board of Certification, and a past member of the OPS Board of Education.
With numerous awards for his photography and professional speaking engagements, Darrin has been published in various medical journals and textbooks including The Journal of Ophthalmic Photography, Insight and Viewpoints.
He is the author of Retinal Imaging Simplified which was released in September of 2009.
In his free time, Darrin loves to travel, hike and spend time with his family. He has made several medical mission trips to Guatemala where he enjoys photographing the native culture.
He currently resides on the coast of Maine with his wife, children's author and Breathe Editor in Chief Deb Landry, and sons Drew and Cain.

Mary Moskowitz, MS holds a master’s in Adult Education from the University of So. Maine and is a Health Counselor specializing in combining the knowledge of traditional philosophies with modern concepts designed by the  Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She  received her  training to practice Health Counseling at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, which is the only nutrition school integrating all the different dietary theories—combining the knowledge of traditional philosophies with modern concepts like the USDA food pyramid, the glycemic index, the Zone and raw foods. www.mainelyhealthandnutrition.com

The picture of health, Dr. Christine Blake is a family physician in Westbrook  and a graduate of University of Maine  and UNECOM.  She is a full time family physician and a mother of four beautiful children. She and her husband live in So. Maine. Join us next month for a full bio on our new Breathe spokesperson.

Caryn Sabes Hacker is a psychotherapist, author and lifelong proponent of health and fitness.  She lives in Naples, Florida. 
Ms. Hacker is a graduate of the University of Kentucky (BA), and earned her Masters Degree from the University of Louisville.  A contributing writer for the Naples Daily News, Ms. Hacker’s work has also appeared in The Kansas City Parent magazine along with Kids, Kids, Kidz and Twins Magazines.  Additionally, she has presented seminars regarding family and personal health topics for educational settings including teacher in-services and PTA seminars and for companies such as: Xerox Corporation, DuPont, Revlon, The Gap, The Ford Foundation, Prudential Insurance, Sony Music and the NBC News Team. 
Caryn is available to present a variety of parenting and personal motivational topics. Please contact her to design a specific seminar for your organization at www.carynsolutions.com

Cheryl Farley is certified with the YMCA of the USA in Foundations of Group Exercise and Healthy Lifestyle Principles. She is a  health and fitness education with a focus on preventing disease rather than simply treating it. She is an instructor for “Reversing Diabetes Seminars” and is the host of the television show, “Ready Set Go Healthy” .
Cheryl was exposed to health and fitness education at an early age through Jack LaLanne Health Clubs, which were operated by her father in California. At 18 years of age, she was teaching exercise classes and was soon on her way to learning and practicing lifestyle changes that focused on preventing disease rather than simply treating it.
She has a burden to share her experiences and has taught many cooking schools in various communities, in addition to teaching simple lifestyle principles. While working with other health professionals within the “Reversing Diabetes Seminars” which are operated by Weimar Institute, she discovered how lives can be changed by changing bad habits to good habits!
In order to reach more people with this good news, she envisioned and developed a TV program “Ready Set Go Healthy” which was aired on cable and public TV throughout Maine and parts of New Hampshire. The show specifically targets, diabetes, heart disease and obesity. As a result, many are learning how to take control of their health.

It is apparent that Cheryl has a very diverse background in healthy lifestyles. In 2008, she has also completed certification for YMCA of the USA in Foundations of Group Exercise and Healthy Lifestyle Principles.

Deb Landry, Breathe Editor in Chief is the author of the best selling children’s book, Sticks Stones and Stumped, Yankee Go Home, and the co-author of The Snapdragon Princess, with Kim Parrish and The Comfort Zone with Meline Kevorkian Ed.D., and Robin D’Antona, Ed.D . She is a freelance writer and parenting coach specializing in social awareness behaviors and character education. Deb has also authored several interactive children’s mentoring plays on character education, social awareness, and bullying prevention. She is part of the team that authored the Maine State Best Practices in Bullying and Harassment Prevention Manual and successfully lobbied for the legislation of the same name.
Deb is the co-founder, President/CEO and former Executive Director of Crossroads, a non-profit performing art based after school youth program and is a facilitator for Real Life ─ Real Talk™.
A mother of four and grandmother of three, Deb spent 21 years in healthcare administration and 11 years as an after school director. Although she is a certified parenting coach, she contributes her parenting experience to forty years of being a parent.
She passionately shares her expertise through lectures, workshops, books, author visits, blogging, and her parent coaching practice. With recognition and several awards for her work , Deb has been interviewed and featured on NBC, CBS, national radio, and several publications including USA Weekend Magazine, Raising Maine Magazine, The Phoenix, Seventeen Magazine, Women’s Day and Child Magazine.
Deb is currently perusing a master’s degree in Holistic Health and is a Qi Gong Facilitator. She is an avid volunteer for many charities including the Miss America Organization. Deb loves to hike and spend time with her family, which includes four children, three grandchildren, a standard poodle and her favorite person, husband Darrin.
To get more information on Deb visit her websites at www.brysontaylorpublishing.com or deblandry.com