From stress-ee to de-stresser. (Sylvia Horten, founder of Charting Your Own Course)

From stress-ee to de-stresser

If someone had told Sylvia Horton ten years ago that she'd be a guest on the "Phil Donohue Show," the only way she'd have envisioned herself there would have been as a victim. After all, she was virtually the culmination of all the things Donohue's down-and-out representatives of misfortune could be: divorced, overworked, and painfully insecure.

But when Horton made her appearance on the national talk show two years ago, the Hinckley resident's claim to fame was her expertise as a teacher of stress management and related disciplines. Not only had she conquered the tribulations that previously made her a victim, but she'd also …