Cindy Jorgensen

 

Cindy Clayton Jorgensen, Especially For Youth Speaker, Utah Girls State Counselor and Champions for Life Counselor has been inspiring and counseling young people and their parents since the 1980s, is a native of Salt Lake City, UT, and former First Counselor in her Ward Relief Society Presidency, Young Women’s advisor,  AT&T Training manager, National American Mothers Speaker Board member, Women of Isagenix Recipient, author and speaker.  

 

Cindy’s family left Salt Lake City when she was an infant.  Due to her family’s job transfers, Cindy had moved fourteen times by Junior High School.  With each move, Cindy easily made new friends until the first grade when the stress of so many moves and making and losing friendships allowed Cindy to turn to food for comfort.

 

An extra twenty pounds of weight—mostly potato chips and desserts—on her young body targeted Cindy for the nasty barbs of the “in-crowd” girls.  Their taunts and teases to “leave us alone—you’re too fat” left an indelible impression on Cindy’s young psyche.  She need to find healthy alternatives to her hand-to-mouth responses to childhood problem.  She needed the enabling power of Jesus Christ to restore her self worth and have the “true friends” she craved.  These longings lead her to develop spiritual gifts that weren't always so popular to express.

 

With help from her father, Cindy shed the unwanted pounds and turned to a more positive and healthful lifestyle.  Education Week, and personal development mentors and the long “bonding” talks with her Father elevated her spirit giving her power to see and create new spiritual gifts and talents. She began sharing her insights at the age of 17 yrs all over the state of Utah motivating others to Aspire Higher.   Cheerleader, Debate Team Winner, and 1985 BYU Summa Cum Laude Graduate with a B.A. in Public Relations led Cindy to her adult years as a successful Independent Marketing Promoter and Trainer, public speaker, entrepreneur and Wellness Consultant.

 

Cindy and her husband, Bryce, now reside in West Bountiful, Utah with their son, Spencer Cannon, 15. Their son, Clayton is serving an LDS mission in Rome, Italy.  The Jorgensens’ active lifestyle  includes a major remodel of their historic Victorian home, courtesy of the producers of Touched by an Angel, where in 2002, Monica, Tess, Andrew and Gloria filmed an episode on their property.

 

“It was a true miracle to have had the “Angels” remodel our home,” shares Cindy during her current speaking engagements.  “The Jorgensens and West Bountiful will never be the same!”

 

Cindy’s legacy from her great, great, great grandmother, Emmeline B. Wells, parallels her paternal ancestor’s trek across the Plains to fin Zion.  The editor of Women’s Exponent magazine, a founder of LDS Hospital, Fifth Relief Society General President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Suffragette, and personal friend of Susan B. Anthony, Emmeline passed on the devastation of depression known in those days as malaise or “melancholy” to Cindy.  Fortunately, along with the affliction, Emmeline, through her daughter Annie, also passed on the strength of hope, faith, service and recovery.

 

The Clayton family LDS heritage continues through Cindy’s paternal great, great, great grandfathers George Q. Cannon who served in the First Presidency with four Prophets and William Clayton composer of the world-renowned hymn, Come, Come, Ye Saints.

 

While CBS was filming the story of the cast and crew of Touched by an Angel  filming in her home, forty-year-old Cindy received a phone call from her doctor to come to his office immediately.Her tests were in…cancer.

 

Cindy Jorgensen experiences, including cancer; is the story of hope…and change inspiring youth and parents alike to

 

 

“THRIVE NOT SURVIVE”—“Your’e an Eagle”,

 

Cindy says, “Not a Chicken—Spread Your Wings and Fly!”

 

All is well!  All is well!  ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​