Just a Snippet About Me
I help people connect with God and grow through their every circumstance, particularly during times of significant transition, through my books and other resources. I began writing and coaching following my 25-year career as an environmental consultant and 7 years helping steward a prayer ministry. I finished my first devotional book in 2019, but have written many ebooks you will find throughout my site.
Although I love to coach, I shifted my focus to writing books as I worked through and processed my own challenging life circumstances. It was God’s Word, seeking and sitting in God’s presence, and the wisdom of other believers that changed my life and inspires my writing. My coaching background helps me provide meaningful questions and other information in all my books. I also pray for everyone that I hope is touched by my books.
Of course, I love to read and I am happily involved with different writing groups to improve my craft.
About My Website and Blog
Throughout this website, you will find books and posts about the topics I believe are meaningful to a an individual, like you, growing in the Lord. They include:
Discovering how to release and let God restore the losses of your past
Growing in your relationship with God through prayer
Growing through every life circumstance and using your experiences to move into your purpose
Experiencing personal transformation through encountering Jesus
Why I am Passionate About Transformation
God has transformed me through many circumstances in my life. He has taken every success I have enjoyed and challenge I have faced and used it to change me and direct me toward his purposes.
Personal turning points: I had two significant turning points in my life that God used to shape me as a writer and a coach.
In the midst of my college years and later as a young parent, I experienced the painful divorce of my parents and the failure of my own first marriage. These two experiences brought me to my knees and helped me grow deeply in my relationship with Lord. I was brought face-to-face with the beliefs and emotional memories that were significantly hindering my life and freedom in Christ. I married my second husband in the midst of this healing time and have been happily married for over 25 years.
Golden, Colorado
The second turning point in my life was the day I heard two African pastors pray out boldly to God. As I listened, the Holy Spirit stirred me. Those two men had something that I wanted. I had a deep yearning to know God more deeply…to walk with Jesus….and to hear more clearly from God through the Holy Spirit. So began my journey into prayer as one of those African pastors became my prayer mentor and friend.
As a prayer leader at the Golden International House of Prayer, God began another transforming work in me. He refined me, purified me, restored me, redeemed me and revealed my identity. He moved me into both prayer and coaching. He continues to grow and change me daily.
My journey into the Heart: Through Tony Stoltzfus and Leadership Metaformation Institute, I discovered that God is at work in the midst of every circumstance. If I was troubled and stuck, the condition of my own heart was the issue. Out of this experience has come more than 6 years of learning and teaching others how to encounter Jesus and let him fulfill the desires of our hearts. It it life-changing!
“Nitty Gritty” Professional Details
Credentials
Certified Christian Life Coach, Professional Christian Coaching and Counseling Academy. ICE Accredited.
New Testament Bible Ministry Certification, Colorado School of Kingdom Ministry
Certified Encounter Coach by Tony Stoltzfus and the Leadership MetaFormation Institute, Redding, CA.
Bachelor and Master of Science, Colorado State University
Personal and Community Transformation Experience
Golden International House of Prayer (IHOP) board member and prayer leader from 2007-2013 (Golden, CO).
Teacher for Golden IHOP and community groups on discovering life purpose, prayer, prophetic intercession, hearing the voice of God
Prayer team leader for community transformation (Journey to Transformation)
Training certificates in prayer, prophetic intercession, and spiritual warfare through Christian Harvest International and Wagner Leadership Institute
Transformational coach and teacher since 2012
My Family
My husband, Joel, and I have been married for 25 years. We are parents to four adult children and grandparents to five young grandchildren. We love spending time with our family and enjoying the outdoors in beautiful Colorado. Life is grand!