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October 28, 2024

October 28, 2024

I always find some excitement in the adventures that I encounter along my coaching path!

 

My coaching niche becomes more focused over time and coincides with my own personal development and spiritual growth. I sense God’s hand in providing a variety of experiences in His calling that enhances my desire and ability to provide help for my clients.

 

It has become increasingly clear to me that God is our Great Physician and that it is His love, strength and healing power that enables me to help others to discover His unique and special path for them. He alone gets the glory!

 

My own path includes a call from Him, and resulting desire, to help women with trauma in their past. This always includes an understanding of a need for a continuing growth and acceptance of their identity in Christ, a necessity for all believers to walk a path enabling them to gain confidence in Christ’s power within them to cast aside any shame or guilt and to experience a new path to freedom from toxic and abusive relationships and to find a place of healing, peace and joy.

 

Understanding God’s unconditional love is a key to staying on a path toward healthy relationships. Processing our past is one facet of coaching that I find important in helping clients to navigate around obstacles and avoid or overcome roadblocks along the way.

 

Each of us needs to find and walk on the path that God promises is available to us as believers in Jesus Christ. This life path should be one that leads to healthy and fulfilling relationships – with others, with God, and with yourself!

 

Are you on a path leading to the one that God wants for you to experience an abundant life?

September 23, 2024

September 23, 2024

Have you accepted God’s free offer of forgiveness for your sins?

 

The mercy of God is poured out on those who are willing to confess a need for forgiveness. Recognizing our need provides God with all that He asks or seeks to avoid His otherwise inescapable judgement.

 

God’s forgiveness extends to remembering our sins no more. He is “a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, and rich in faithful love”. (Nehemiah 9:17)

 

Once we have received God’s mercy and forgiveness, God then tells us to extend a like forgiveness to our brothers and sisters. By doing this we follow God’s lead.

 

As Charles Stanley puts it, we need to be “willing to place every hurt and injustice into the hands of God and trust Him to heal our hearts and deal with those who have wounded us.” We’re not expected to deny our hurts, but our forgiveness frees those who have harmed us from blame. Focusing on our hurts, past injustices and sins only creates hostility and bitterness. “Vengeance is mine”, says the Lord!

 

Are you up for receiving God’s forgiveness and aligning with God in reflecting His mercy to others?

July 22, 2024

July 22, 2024

Not long ago, I read that only 20% of people are coachable.

 

As a coach who desires to bring transformation to people by cementing their personal relationship with Christ and the renewing of their mind (see Romans 12:2), if true, this statistic means that 80% of us can be written off as beneficiaries of this goal of coaching!

 

Why this negative mindset?

 

I suspect that the change and growth associated with coaching is foreseen as a lead in to losing one’s comfort zone. It seems that most of us prefer the comfort of a self-help approach.

 

Coaching provides accountability and consistency that’s missing from self-help. Time and effort are necessary elements in reaching goals. A coach provides support, inspiration, encouragement and the necessary follow through to reach a goal that will bring lasting change.

 

In the words of Charles Spurgeon: “Growth is painful. Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”

 

With coaching guidance, you can get unstuck, move forward, overcome fear and uncertainty, and find hope, healing and peace.

 

If you would like to talk about coaching, send me a message to set up a free half-hour Discovery Call. Be the exception!

 

Are you interested in exploring the possibility of change?

May 6, 2024

May 6, 2024

God is the great healer! (Exodus 15:26)

 

One thing that I love about my coaching is that I have the privilege of taking part in my client’s healing.

 

As I listen, guide and pray with and for clients, the Spirit’s love shines through and God’s healing presence goes to work.

 

God uses the storms that we encounter and endure in our lives to create a unique path for each of us. I love helping to direct God’s light onto that path.

 

In the words of the early 20th century writer and editor, Jessie Penn-Lewis, “He can gather up and straighten all that lies behind you as well as the crooked things before you.”

 

I don’t believe that our healing will be complete until we are with the Lord in our eternal home, but the healing we experience here and now can be used to help and encourage others and to bless us with the abundant life that He desires His children to have.

 

Our healing brings His light to the world!

 

Where do you need to experience His healing touch?

February 26, 2024

February 26, 2024

Sheila Walsh was one of the most inspiring speakers I’ve heard at the AACC Conferences I attend for my continuing education. Her 2019 “Extraordinary Woman of the Year” award was well-deserved. Sheila traveled from her home in Scotland to share her story. After five years of co-hosting the 700 Club with Pat Robertson, she suffered a terrible breakdown and, as she put it, God allowed her life to fall apart. The day that began on the set of The 700 Club ended with her in a hospital on suicide watch. Sheila told us that God took her to prison to set her free and that “gifts are given to us with bloody hands”. 

 

Sheila’s story of her childhood in Scotland and the extreme pain she suffered at the hands of her ill father is heart-wrenching, but worth hearing and learning from. Her journey through clinical depression taught her in the end that she did not have to carry her shame, that Christ took it and carried it for her. The message she shared was about pressing on through the darkness, holding Jesus’ hand.  Sheila reminded us that our Savior gladly bared his scars when he rose from the dead, and that we should bare ours to let others know that they are not alone on this journey.

 

Listening to Sheila made me more eager to share my own story and less afraid to show my scars. As Christians, we need to be all in! Are you willing to bare your scars to let others know that they are not alone?

February 19, 2024

February 19, 2024

Continuing certification for coaching includes studying newly discovered methods and techniques by recognized experts in coaching and related fields. I attended a fascinating workshop given by Dr. Daniel Amen, a psychiatrist with forty years of experience and author of a number books, including “Change Your Brain, Change Your Life”. He heads the Amen Clinics, which offer a wide range of mental health services and is a firm believer that seeking an end to mental illness begins with a concentration on brain health. 

 

Dr. Amen has developed a certification program in Brain Health Coaching. His approach is designed to help clients identify risk factors that “steal your mind”! There are eleven of them and almost all are preventable or treatable. His findings and methods provide coaches with information and skills that can help clients break bad habits and become adept at learning how to improve their own brain health. There is much to learn about our brains!

 

I enjoy opportunities to help clients with change. Are you interested in learning how coaching can help produce beneficial changes in your brain?

January 8, 2024

January 8, 2024

Transformation is a primary key to moving forward and achieving a closer walk with the Lord. I am so grateful to the Lord for His transformational power, His healing, and the knowledge that He’s not finished with me yet!

 

By allowing God to work in me, through challenges that have come my way, I am able to play a part in paying His work forward by helping others to experience God’s healing as well. It has become increasingly clear to me that God allows us to go through hard times for good reason. He uses everything for good! (Romans 8:28)

 

Of course, God works the transformation. My part in it is simply allowing Him to transform me, hopefully, day by day, into the image of Christ. While this goal won’t be fully achieved until I go to be with Him, I have the use of, and access to, the knowledge and wisdom that He gives me to help others along the same path toward their own transformation.  

 

It’s an added blessing to me to be able to help others as I work to pay it forward!

January 1, 2024

JanuarY 1, 2024

Here’s to your health in 2024!

 

God desires for His children to be healthy and to enjoy healthy, loving relationships.

 

Loving others well begins with understanding and accepting God’s love for you and understanding that you are a precious child of God!

 

As He promises to bring health and healing to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 33:6), He wants you to be complete in Him and to fulfill His plan and purpose for you.

 

He will heal His people and they will enjoy abundant peace and security!

 

Are you going to accept God’s best for you in the new year?

November 27, 2023

November 27, 2023

Praying for someone who has hurt us is not an easy thing to do.

 

Forgiving them is even tougher.  But keep in mind that allowing someone to keep hurting you is not a criteria of forgiveness.

 

Add to that the fact that God welcomes your cry for help with forgiving. Along with it, He’ll provide restoration, healing of your heart, strengthened faith and His peace!

 

Also, you’ll have an answer to the question: “ What have I learned from being wounded?”

October 9, 2023

October 9, 2023

We generally fail to recognize that our pain is often a useful tool in God’s hand for shaping our lives according to His plan. His love and concern not only sustain us and provide healing, they often help us to use our pain as a growth spurt that can move us closer to Him.

 

In her book “True You”, Susan Sohn states “It is our mess, pain and ugly that God uses to create the most incredible beauty in our lives. Could our pain be the broth that nourishes our souls?”

 

My coaching centers on helping clients find hope and healing through a better understanding of God’s love and purpose, ultimately including the ability to praise Him for His perfect plan.

 

Have you considered that God has a purpose in allowing your pain?