healing

21 03, 2016

What is Identity, and why does it matter?

Where do we get our identity from anyway? Our parents, society through magazine, tv, movies, etc., from friends, teachers, family, the media?  Is it even accurate?

It can be pretty confusing when we are in conflict with our heart, mind and soul. There are SO MANY messages and labels about identity, but are they accurate, true and healthy in order for you for fulfill your younique God-given purpose for love and good works!

Identity & Purpose go hand in hand….when you truly understand, become fully aware of your true God-given identity created in His image, accept your YOUnique and amazing identity you are not fooled by false identifiers, labels and an unhealthy, unproductive focus that would hold you back. Or worse, completely derail and get you off the path you were meant to walk in fulfilling your purpose.

One of the reasons I LOVE our signature coaching program, Identity & Destiny – 7 Steps to a Purpose Filled Life, it’s straightforward approach changed my life. I finally broke through the barrier of FEAR and Self-Doubt. They were major obstacles that I just kept getting stuck in before completing Identity & Destiny. Anyone can do it who is willing to put in the time and discipline of it. Generally, 5 days a week, 15-45 minutes each day, depending on the particular focus of each module.

Basically, 3 parts – Self-Awareness & Acceptance, The Bridge – Overcoming Fears, Blocks, Limiting Beliefs and Lies you’ve believed about yourself, and the Purpose Mosaic.

One really cool aspect of all of this is how positively it can impact the relationships around you as well. When we have a greater understanding and acceptance of ourselves, our true identity & purpose it has a tremendous ripple [...]

28 08, 2012

Couldn’t Sleep, Just Cry…

It doesn’t happen often that I can’t sleep. As I tried and tried to just settle my mind, I just felt an overwhelming urge to cry, let my emotions spill out and relieve the stress I was feeling. It had been a pretty rough week hearing stories of lives lost to abortion, healing so desperately being sought out, by some, complete calloused denial for others. The bright spot in the week was the Loving Life luncheon with a room of 30 kind, caring and loving individuals who have a deep desire to help bring a movement of reconciliation to our little county of Yamhill, Oregon. What an answer to prayer!
As I prayed through it and asked God what “THAT” was all about, there was an overwhelming sense that that very night 32 years ago, August 15th, that I became pregnant with our first child, our daughter which we only months later chose to end her life through abortion. It’s funny how our soul has such a memory that almost seems to be a part of our inner life record, almost becoming part of our DNA until it comes to a point of reconciliation. So, as I slipped out from under the bed sheets next to my fast-asleep hubby, glancing at the illuminated clock face with a time of 11:37 p.m. I grabbed my note pad wandered down the dark hallway to the quiet living room turned on the dimmer switch light, plopped down on the comfy leather sofa, propping the pillows underneath me, this is what came forth.
How can it be that we have strayed so incredibly far from the image we were created to [...]

18 06, 2012

30 Years to Closure

30 Years to Closure

10/10/10 was the day I stood before the marble wall of the Northwest Memorial for the Unborn. A bittersweet moment which brought closure to a door in my life that I so wished had NEVER been opened...the door of "Abortion".

18 06, 2012

30 Years to Closure

As I approached this article’s deadline of October 10th, 2011,  my mind flashes back to one year prior, 10/10/10.   A day which brought a great sense of closure to a healing journey in my life.  I recall standing in front of the marble wall with my husband and loved ones, where hung the engraved bronze plaque memorializing the life of our daughter, Guinevere Rose.  Who’s life had been ended 30 years prior due to the “choice” of abortion.  It was a small intimate gathering.  The memorial was held at the NW Memorial for the Unborn, an affiliate location linked to the National Memorial for the Unborn in Chattanooga, TN.    I chose an abortion as a young, 18 year old naive and scared woman buying the lies the clinic staff told me that cold, drizzly October day.   “It’s just a blob of tissue”, they said.  “It’s not a baby yet.”  They said I’d be fine in a couple days and be able to get on with my life as normal.  Life was never “normal” again.   Little did I know the tangled web those lies would create in my life.As I have reflected, I awakened to the fact that my fiance’ and I were not just planning our future of wedded bliss, or so we thought!  We were planning a cover up of epic proportion.   A cover up that took nearly 23 years to see the light of day.   I can’t think of a more divisive foundational decision a couple could make in the infancy of their life of hope for a lifelong journey together.  Even though PAS (Post-Abortion Syndrome ‘trauma’) is not formally recognized yet certainly doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.  Since coming out of [...]