Isabel Chiara is a first generation Italian-American, whose instinct is to nourish the needs of her community, by providing spiritual insights or placating their actual appetite. An eclectic and extremely successful business woman, Isabel is the daughter of hard-working Italian immigrants. Like the generation that preceded her, she’s given much of her life to her family-operated restaurant chain in New England, dedicated to providing affordable and high quality dining for the heart of the local community.

From the time Isabel was a spirited little girl, she felt a deep pull to create excitement, to experience more than meets the eye. Her classic Italian appetite hungered for a spiritual realm, perhaps partly inherited from her Italian family’s historic connection to the kind of ecclesiastical holy lifestyle so palpably central to mid-20th century Sicilian farmland living. As a teenager of the 70’s, Isabel discovered her own contemporary spirituality which allowed her to cultivate inner-guidance and, ultimately, help others to do the same.

Well-versed in transformational modalities, dedicating over thirty years to studies in schools of healing sciences, therapeutic artforms and energy work, her latest venture is the production of Giana Giovanni, a character she’s “channeled” like a muse to express both elements of her own life story and a highly-relatable, fun and fictitious, emotionally real journey into the inner-voice of the modern woman who has long- battled her own female body.

Raised in a survival mode of get-up-and-go, as Isabel reached her sixth decade she recognized that, while she’d been dedicated to the service of others, her own body simply would no longer function without her nourishing tendencies to be, at last, turned inward, to both nurture and tend to her own patterns of self-care.

Recognizing that so many in the position of supporting others spiritually and physically– or both–have simply struggled with the most primary relationship of consuming sustenance, the simple act of eating, Isabel set on a quest to finally approach her “last spiritual frontier”, which, in fact, is the first—the physical body.

Working with coaches, teachers and dieticians, Isabel simultaneously penned the story of Giana Giovanni, Or GG, a woman much like herself, who is finding, at last, that settling in to the natural rhythm of the body and truly deepening her own capacity for self-acceptance can be more spiritually ecstatic, and offer more exponentially star-traversing momentum than even her most esoteric out-of-body visualizations.