Edith Nicholson Stackhouse was born August 28, 1927 in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.   She started a school of Natural Healing in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1979, which ran for four years.  She is a massage therapist.  

The last ten years of her career she worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Middlebury, Vermont.  She currently lives in Vermont.