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I'm Ang.…a daughter of the King, best friend to my hubby of 27 years, and busy mama to two very creative young adults (18 and 22) who still call our home theirs.

I’m also a Certified Professional Life Coach specializing in Biblical coaching, who is passionate about helping women go from merely surviving to creating a life they love so they can thrive for the sake of the Kingdom.

But I didn’t always feel this way.

In fact, it wasn’t that long ago that I was the one who was desperately in need of a Life Coach.

Although I loved the thought of being a mom and wife, I didn’t love the daily reality of it. I struggled to cope with the pressures and expectations from myself and others, and the stress and overwhelm kept me from showing up as the person I wanted to be each day. I felt like I was letting God down with the blessings He had given me, but I didn’t know any other way to be. The relentless pace of life with kids only added to my stress and I carried anxiety with me constantly. Life felt like a never ending roller coaster. Hard as I tried to change my environment or circumstances to feel better, nothing seemed to make much difference. I felt powerless and exhausted. Even though I had Jesus and read His Word regularly, I didn’t feel like I was living the “abundant life” the Bible talks about.

To make matters worse, I felt like a fraud. Especially to my kids. Here I was trying to raise them up in the “joy of the Lord” but they could clearly see I wasn’t very joyful in my everyday life. Hot mess mama was more like it! What kind of witness was I being to them?

Oh sure, on the surface we appeared happy and successful with a nice home and material comforts, but underneath I felt a lot of anxiety, insecurity and discontentment. I was constantly chasing the next thing to feel good about myself. Even though I managed to keep up appearances, regardless of what I acquired or achieved, nothing ever seemed to fill me up. I couldn’t understand it. I had received the incredible gift of salvation, I was in the Word regularly and had a great church family. I should’ve felt peaceful, happy and content, but I didn’t. What was wrong with me?

I started working with a Christian Counselor at first (because I’d never even heard of life coaching!) and although I really enjoyed the process it seemed to take a long time to make progress. I didn’t like having to wait to get an opening with my counselor, especially when I felt stuck and struggling with an issue. Feeling so reliant on someone else to help me work through my thoughts and emotions only created more frustration, so to fill the void I started reading counseling books for myself. Lots of them! And it wasn’t long before I stumbled upon the field of life coaching and learned that it originated from the positive psychology side of counseling. It was a much more fast paced, future focused dynamic, which was exactly what I wanted. When I found out that there was a branch of life coaching that specifically aligned with Biblical principles I was hooked! I read every book I could get my hands on about it and started applying all that I was learning.

What I soon came to learn was that my feelings of stress, anxiety, overwhelm, guilt, frustration, worry, shame, discontentment and misery were NOT a result of my circumstances as I had believed. Which explains why even when I could change my situations, it didn’t make a lasting difference in my emotions.

Then one day, I got a a-ha moment like no other. While I was reading the Parable of the Soils (Matthew 13) it became clear that our thoughts (beliefs) and emotions are like the soil Jesus talks about. Our ability to successfully “plant” God’s Word in our hearts and minds to grow the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5) depends on the quality of our soil, which is our deeper subconscious beliefs about God, ourselves, the nature of sin and Satan, and our purpose here on earth!

Distorted beliefs that are not aligned with God’s truth don’t lead to fertile soil. And just so you know, we all have these to some extent or another. It’s not possible to live in this fallen world and not have been influenced with the enemy’s lies along the way.

I had often wondered why even though I was diligent at reading God’s Word, my old thoughts and behaviors would often override my good intentions.

The connection between the Scriptures and Christian psychology that I loved studying finally clicked, and it all made perfect sense to me! Knowing that our thoughts literally create our feelings, which drive our behaviors that ultimately lead us to our results, instead of focusing on changing our behaviors, the key is to start with our thoughts!

When we just try to “plant” the Scriptures on top of deeper subconscious beliefs that don’t align with God’s Word, we’ll almost always revert back to the old beliefs in time. They are like the rocks and thorns the Parable talks about. The old distorted beliefs need to be uproot and weeded out!

Now it was clear. My negative emotions weren’t caused by my circumstances. They were caused by me - by my own thoughts and subconscious beliefs about my circumstances.

And that was the BEST NEWS EVER!

Because if I was the one creating my feelings with my thoughts and deeper beliefs, then I could choose them more intentionally in order to create different feelings. By working with a Biblical life coach I learned how to do exactly that - dig up my subconscious thoughts and re-wire them with God's truth - and everything started to change!

I finally found the missing link, and as I applied this newfound wisdom I began to experience something magical. Even when my situations didn’t change, I was able to change how I felt in them. I wasn’t as affected by them in the negative ways I used to be.

The more I applied the practical tools I was learning through coaching and seeing radical transformation in my outlook on life, the more I wanted to share them with everyone! So I invested in training as a professional coach and haven’t looked back.

Since then I’ve had the privilege of coaching people from around the country through Zoom (and even in a couple other countries!). It’s not something I ever imagined I’d do, but I literally don’t think there could be a better job for me on the planet. Not only do I get immense satisfaction from helping people with their mental and emotional health for the sake of the Kingdom, but I also get the incredible benefit of continually learning and growing in managing my own thoughts and emotions.

We don’t need to settle for merely surviving in the day-to-day. Life can be so much better than that, and I want to help as many people as God allows me to truly walk in the freedom and joy of the Lord. As He promises, when we seek truth in Christ, we find freedom. By his grace, I get the privilege of helping women align their thoughts and emotions with God and learning how to truly thrive in Him in order to live out the life they were created for.

The peace, joy and satisfaction you want in life is totally available to you. I can show you how to experience it.