Imagine your daughter is standing before you, red face with all the tears. Her sniffling nose and tired eyes are speaking to you louder than her words. “Yep. Bedtime,” you think to yourself while grabbing a kleenex from the box next to you. You can see the signs all over her that she needs a…
Looking for real, lasting, life changing methods and solutions? Are you looking for things that will drastically impact your daily life? For me, this happens when I’m reading the Bible and a certain phrase stands out from the rest. {read to the bottom for a free printable list!} A verse that jabs my heart and…
Life coaching is fairly new on the landscape. People aren’t really sure what it is yet or why coaching might help them in the midst of busy lives, kids, work and home. Coaching is for anyone! Coaching is not counseling and coaching is usually quite affordable. Getting your own life coach is an exciting addition…
After a season of ignoring my favorite things, my counselor encouraged and asked me to greatly consider doing my favorite things. Fun things. Crazy things. My own things. Interesting things. My mentor coach, in another way of encouraging growth, told me to stop hesitating and just jump out there and do the things! Stop overthinking,…
The Proverbs 31 woman. I have a million feelings and thoughts about this chapter at the moment. I’ve been sitting with it, thinking about it, praying through it. Who is this woman and why does she get a chapter in the Bible? There are old sermons, churchy devotionals, cutesy, romanticized t-shirts… all that feel very…
Books are a very important piece of personal growth. There was a time that I purposefully ignored all the growth books around me because I had a feeling I knew what they would tell me. I knew once I started on the journey to growth, things would change. I would change. Life would change. The…
I have been struggling with some hard questions. Questions for myself and questions from other people. Hard questions that have complicated, difficult answers. Not only are the questions complicated and difficult, but they’re hard to explain with extended answers that aren’t really for everyone. Even the easy questions… things like, “What do you do?” or…
Research is showing that accountability coaching is extremely effective for many areas of your life. Having someone ask the right questions, help you establish the next steps, set goals, and hold you accountable to those goals can be beneficial for lasting, real change in life and work behaviors. Reducing overwhelm, halting procrastination, breaking down large…
I wrote this post in a season of first-hand experience and watching others go through having stories not heard in healthy, safe ways. In a way, this post is what led to me getting more help, realizing there is specific trauma response training available and that coaching can be an impactful way for stories to…
*This post was written at the very beginning of my mental health journey. Since then, I’ve grown through counseling and moved into having my own coach and mentor. I want to share the baby steps that it took to ask for help, build a team around me, and start getting mentally, physically, and relationally healthy….
