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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?

October 21, 2024

October 21, 2024

The satisfaction that I enjoy when it becomes apparent that my coaching is helping a client to find a path out of a place of darkness, toward a place of light, has recently been enhanced by adding my certification in Crisis Response and Trauma Care. The focus of this area of coaching is on providing a compassionate and supportive presence to mitigate acute distress following a traumatic event. How people respond to trauma and crisis varies to the same degree that personality varies. What may be traumatic to one person may not phase another.

 

Among the benefits that this area of mental health coaching can provide are stability, comfort and awareness of the possible harm of making quick decisions. The consideration of a particular support system may also provide help along with addressing spiritual and other facets of mental help. The mere presence of working with a mental health coach, generally referred to as the “Ministry of Presence” is usually a paramount benefit in the relief of a traumatic setback in itself. 

 

My own faith in Christ, as Lord of all and the ultimate authority, is what enables me to share what I have learned through my training as a coach with the goal of providing comfort, strength and a path toward light from the dark.

Are you experiencing stress as a result of trauma and the uncertainty around us? How is your connection with God? It would be my privilege to talk with you.

July 31, 2023

July 31, 2023

Have you heard the phrase, “We identify with Jesus in our suffering”?

 

I remind myself of this truth often. While I realize that my own suffering could never hold a candle to the suffering that Jesus endured, it helps to remind me of all that he went through. His suffering had a great purpose. Our suffering has a purpose as well.

 

I have come to see my suffering as an opportunity to demonstrate my faith and trust in the Lord. Author Chris Tiegreen writes, “We give out of our own experiences”.  He makes the point that our past equips us to serve others going through similar experiences. He adds that even though we may not have navigated our traumas well the first time around, we learned something from them and can relate to those in need. “Many have turned their traumas into ministries over time.”

 

My personal experience with God’s healing of my wounded heart is a gift that gives me great joy to share with others in need of His healing touch. I see it as a cornerstone of my ministry and a recognition of God’s grace encouraging me to pay it forward!

 

I pray for connection to those who need a path toward God’s healing of their wounded heart.  If that person is you or someone close to you, send me a message so that we can find a time to talk!

October 31, 2022

October 31, 2022

The length of time before my own awakening to the reality of being deeply wounded from abortion has caused me concern over the uncounted women and men out there who have been needlessly suffering from a similar wound. Their suffering has probably been unacknowledged and silent despite the severity of damage at their core. Additionally, there has been a negative impact on relationships with spouses, children and friends.

 

My goal as a coach is to reach out and help others who are suffering from similar wounds by leading them to an understanding and acceptance of the gift that only the Lord, the One who can heal all wounds, including the wounds of abortion, can provide. The words of Sarah Young are encouraging: “Offering help to hurting people gives meaning to your suffering – and glory to God.”

 

God has provided a clear path for the transfer of our suffering to Him. It is always exciting to me to have the opportunity to share my knowledge and experience in helping others to put this suffering behind them and, at the same time enhance their relationship with God.

 

I love this quote by Richard Foster, “We can be assured of this: God, who knows all and sees all, will set all things straight in the end. Even better, He will dry every tear. In the meantime, He mysteriously takes our sorrows and uses them to heal the world.” 

 

So many of us need the healing, hope and the touch that only our Father can provide.

 

I have been personally blessed by His touch! 

 

Do you need His touch, too?

July 11, 2022

July 11, 2022

There is such freedom in letting go of a painful past!

 

Even though we may have suffered a terrible trauma, such as abuse, or other debilitating psychological or physical injury, we do not need to live as though we are a permanently scarred victim. 

 

We do not need to let what happened to us in the past dictate how we live our life each day in the present. We have a choice!

 

What we need is the determination and ability to overcome what happened to us and to look forward, with the understanding of how we can respond to the trials we have been through, in positive ways that will not only be to our benefit but will also provide help to others.

 

God allows us to go through such trials in our lives for a reason. 

 

View your past trauma as a challenge to understand God’s reason for allowing it and recognizing the positive aspects underlying God’s purpose. 

 

Remember, we are not defined by what we’ve been through, or by who we used to be. We are defined by who God says we are now.