Aleta St. James is an internationally renowned emotional healer, dream maker and top-selling author of Life Shift: Let Go and Live Your Dream. Aleta travels the world giving lectures, private seminars and hands-on private sessions with a wide variety of clients who want to excel in their personal, spiritual and professional lives. In recognition of living her “winding up and not down” philosophy, Aleta was recently named one of the “people who inspire” by AARP Magazine.

At age 57, Aleta made international headlines in late 2004 when she gave birth to twins, accomplishing her dream of being a mother. She has been featured on the cover of New York magazine as a forerunner in the alternative healing field, and also featured in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Mirabella and has appeared on hundreds of television and radio programs, including The Today Show, NYC's Dateline, Good Morning America and CNN.

Aleta lives in New York with her twins Gian and Francesca. And when asked if there is a downside to having twins at 57, Aleta answers “ I never thought I would be bossed around by 4 year olds.”

Blog Entries by Aleta St. James

Move Over Brangelina! Here's a Real Fairy Tale Romance

Posted October 9, 2009 | 12:33 PM (EST)


Move over, Brangelina. This is what I call a real fairy tale romance.

Once upon a time and far away, there were no such things as, say, sex tapes while dating, Instead, there was something called "courtship." It worked like this: a man found a woman that he liked and...

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Move Over Brangelina! Here's a Real Fairy Tale Romance

5 Comments | Posted October 7, 2009 | 04:17 PM (EST)


Move over, Brangelina. This is what I call a real fairy tale romance.

Once upon a time and far away, there were no such things as, say, sex tapes while dating, Instead, there was something called "courtship." It worked like this: A man found a woman that he liked and...

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Too Old To Live Your Dreams? Don't Make Me Laugh

2 Comments | Posted June 25, 2009 | 06:00 PM (EST)


Here we go again. Elizabeth Adeney is making waves around the world because she's going to set the record as the world's oldest first-time mother when she turns 67 this month. Quelle scandale! L'horreur!

But wait. Why was it OK when Larry King, Anthony Quinn and Tony Randall all had...

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Fear and the Sour Grapes of Sarah Palin's Wrath

Posted October 10, 2008 | 02:56 PM (EST)


There's a saying among the optimistic - fear is courage that has said its prayers.

But there are those - like the world's most opportunistic hockey mom Sarah Palin - who use fear to fuel pessimism and hate. Sarah Palin's brand of fear can be like a virus. Contagious. But...

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Aleta in the City: A Mom at 57? Before You Judge Me, Read This!

Posted September 30, 2008 | 06:39 PM (EST)


I've spent the last 40 years of my life becoming an Indiana Jones of the soul. I was on a quest - everywhere from Peru and India to Bali - to discover who I was and the secrets to living a fulfilled, happy, and successful life.

Today I work as...

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