THE STORY

I share my story to give you a clear picture not only of my own personal transformation, but also how God has equipped me in this unique role...

CHILDHOOD 

By God's grace, I had a beautiful early childhood, coming to faith in Christ around the age of 7. I remember sensing God's nearness and presence with me at night when I lay in bed. However, during my teenage years, my parents wrestled through significant marital challenges, and my father was in and out of the house. During this time, I turned away from the Lord for about three years... angry, curious about the world, rebelling. Thankfully, at age 17, I rededicated my life to the Lord at a Young Life camp and began seeking Him again.

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5 YEARS OF PAIN 

In my early adulthood, after doing a year of missions training with YWAM (Youth With a Mission), I went through an extended and unexpected season of confusion, depression, and pain, marked by several difficult circumstances:

• my parents' separation and eventual divorce

• spiritual warfare that brought oppression

• a spiritually unhealthy mentoring relationship that was destructive

• my own personal insecurities and fears

For five long years, I endured severe emotional pain and defeat, living under strongholds of fear and confusion, despite earnestly seeking God during that time.

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FREEDOM & MARRIAGE 💍

Finally, over about six months, through His personal and specific guidance, God delivered me, step by step, into a place of lasting freedom and joy—one that has remained stable and sustained for decades. He taught me, one day at a time, the path to lasting victory, and I've truly never been the same. The stability that He established in that season has endured for decades. Along this journey, I married my incredible husband, Bill, completed my first Master's Degree in Education, and taught high school English for several years. During the early years of marriage and career, the roots of my faith grew deep, and God cultivated in me the fruit of clarity, confidence, and wisdom.

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TRAINING, RESEARCH, CHURCH PLANTING, CHILDREN

After several years of living in freedom, I pursued a second Master's, this time in Professional Counseling, and began researching strategic, results-driven, gospel-centered transformation for emotional and relational health. It was during this time that I discovered the Immanuel Approach by Dr. Karl Lehman. In addition, Bill and I trained as church planters and led a church plant for several years, with a consistent focus on discipleship, doing healthy ministry, and cultivating vibrant spiritual family. Along the way, the Lord also blessed us with two amazing children, Asher and Haven, who fill our home with activity, the creativity of childhood, and lots of discovery. They keep us on our toes!

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10 YEARS OF PRIVATE PRACTICE 

In 2015, I founded Resilience Ministries, a private Biblical Counseling and Coaching practice. I began working with clients facing a wide range of life's challenges—anxiety, depression, spiritual disconnect and confusion, emotional wounds, trauma, church hurt, difficult marriages, isolation and loneliness, toxic relationships, and more. It has been a sacred honor to walk alongside these faithful sojourners, guiding them toward God's fullness in their lives. Even more rewarding has been witnessing client after client experience freedom and victory in Christ, time and time again!

KEYS TO TRANSFORMATION 🔑

Throughout my journey in counseling and church planting, a clear, step-by-step Biblical pattern for freedom began to emerge. Through months and years of growth, formal training, personal research, client work, and discipleship within the church body, I discovered a consistent set of biblical Keys to Transformation. These keys proved to be reliable and effective time and time again. As the Holy Spirit revealed these keys, I gathered them into structured, step-by-step tools to use with clients. And so, the Gospel Freedom content was born, eventually leading to the creation of The Refreshed Life Masterclass!

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AN UNEXPECTED "DETOUR" AND DIVINE INTERVENTION ‼️ 🕊️

As life and ministry flourished, the unexpected struck. From 2020-2025, both Bill and I began experiencing a slow decline in our health that we couldn’t explain. At first, we chalked it up to aging and thought maybe we just needed more rest, but it kept increasing. Over time, brain fog, fatigue, inflammation, low stress tolerance, and adrenal strain crept in. For Bill, it began showing up in ways that affected his nervous system, cognition, emotional regulation, and sleep. For me, my muscles and physical nerve pathways began to ache, tighten, and resist the normal, yet full pace of life I’d always kept.

In the worst of it, Bill was actually homebound for a month, physically and mentally unable to go to work. He couldn't sleep, he had physical tremors, and we were filled with questions. 

We worked through every resource and intervention we knew of—counseling, doctors, rest, medication, blood work, inner healing, more rest, doctor visits, more resources, spiritual warfare, and the list goes on. But the puzzle pieces didn’t fit together, and it didn't make sense.

Until God stepped in May of 2025. 

Through what can only be described as divine orchestration, He began connecting us to key people, cutting-edge research, and a new understanding about how deeply brain and body health directly affect the mind, spirit, and emotions, and vice versa. The Lord revealed that what was showing up as cognitive and emotional challenges for Bill and physical challenges for me was actually an invitation into a deeper insight and restoration than we had known—wisdom that would connect faith, physiology, and freedom.

In this season, He reminded me that healing isn’t only spiritual or emotional; it’s also nutritional, bodily, and cellular. It's about your personal story and your physiological state of being. It’s the gospel working its way all the way down into the nervous system, the hormones, the mitochondria, each individual cell, and how these all work together and impact daily life.

What began as a detour became a divine laboratory—where our pain became the birthplace of a fuller calling.

GOSPEL FREEDOM INTEGRATIVE COACHING & CONSULTING 🌿

Out of that long, refining process came not only our own health renewal—but also the next evolution of ministry: Gospel Freedom Integrative Coaching & Consulting—a whole-life, Christ-centered approach that integrates biblical truth, nutritional wellness, and neuroscience-informed tools. 

What the enemy meant for harm, God used to rebuild both our health and our mission. Today, Bill and I walk in more peace, vitality, and connection than ever before—because the Lord met us in the trenches and showed us how His truth and wisdom restore the whole person.

Now, through Gospel Freedom, I help individuals, couples, and leaders live and lead fully free—spiritually, emotionally, mentally, physically, relationally, and in their purpose and calling. Whether someone comes weary from ministry, burdened by anxiety, or simply longing to live with greater joy and energy, my calling is the same: to help them encounter Christ, restore balance in the brain and body, and walk in lasting freedom that impacts every sphere of life.

Because when the gospel touches every layer of who we are—mind, body, and spirit—freedom becomes not just a moment of breakthrough, but a sustainable, empowered way of kingdom life.

MULTIPLYING GENERATIONAL FREEDOM! 

By God’s grace, I’ve spent the past decade helping hundreds of clients cultivate spiritual, emotional, and relational health. In this new season, I’m especially excited to bring together Christ-centeredness and cutting-edge science—where faith meets function, Scripture meets the nervous system, and the supernatural and the scientific beautifully sync. What began as my own journey of restoration has become a multiplying journey of renewal—equipping individuals, couples, and leaders to experience true transformation through Christ’s presence, spiritual practices, brain and body balance, and everyday grace that ripples outward into families, communities, and generations.