encouragement

You’ve Come This Far; What’s Different?

You may be up early for the day after Christmas sales. Perhaps you are waking up in your childhood home visiting your family for the holidays. Or perhaps, you’re facing going back to work today. Whatever the case a lot has transpired in your life this year. In the recent 30+ days, if you’ve been

Merry Christmas 2019: Practice Presence

Merry Christmas! My hope and prayer for you and yours is that you practice presence with one another. Be with your people. Slow down and enjoy the gathering, the laughter, tears, noise, food, all of it. A little season’s greeting without an invitation to any action today except pay attention to your people.   Photo

What Are Your Christmas Eve Traditions?

As this day, this Christmas Eve dawns, I pray you find yourself able to enjoy the gatherings, and anticipate the celebration of birth of Jesus with the wonder of a child, with the joy of the shepherds, and heart of a seeker like the wise men who traveled from their faraway lands to meet Jesus.

Why Did I Create the Hashtag #letgoleanin?

If this is your first time dropping in here, Welcome! Please allow me to set the stage for what you can expect. I work as a transformational coach whose focus is helping women connect the dots of work, life and faith in order to live an integrated, wholehearted life. You’ve dropped in near the end

If Rest is so Valuable, Why Do We Neglect It?

The fourth Sunday of this 2019 Advent season is here. We’ve journeyed through the week of Hope, of Faith and of Joy. Now we enter the final week of preparation for the celebration of Christ’s first coming and the readiness for His second coming. This week the theme is What represents peace to you? Absence

2 More Ways to Deepen Faith

In my Transformational coaching practice we focus attention on three main steps in the acronym  G.E.T.: Grow-Equip-Thrive. Each step involves several strategies in the developmental process. What’s the point of this style of coaching? Transformational coaching helps you connect the dots of work, life and faith so you are able to live your life in

Are You Desiring More in Your Faith?

Sitting alone in my front garden, tears streaming, I spoke out a question from deep within, “Don’t you see how hard this is for me God? Don’t You care?” Photo by Ilkka Kärkkäinen on Unsplash This frustration, this anger I was expressing toward God would garner correction in many churches. I’ve heard those voices tell others “oh no,

Can Life Experiments be Playful and not Stressful?

Climbing the 12 foot ladder, my heart racing to a beat of competition fueled by pride, I knew I was going to have to follow through with this dare. No self-respecting 16 year old would turn down an opportunity to jump from an Olympic diving platform earning the bragging rights of accomplishment. This was no