Laura's LifePath Coaching

July 14, 2025

July 14, 2025

Today I am sharing one of my favorite “quick tips”. It has the power to transform relationships!

 

In this time of ever-present distractions, it is especially important to BE PRESENT and BE ALL THERE.

 

It’s a simple concept to understand, but it’s not always easy to do.

 

The most important factor is being certain that the person you are talking with knows that they have your full attention and are not competing with any distraction, be it your phone or anything else.  

 

Can you bring to mind whom you need to “be all there” for today?

June 23, 2025

June 23, 2025

I’m intrigued by the candor of this statement by Lecrae.

 

It seems to me that, as Christians, we should all be able to admit that we can relate. After all, admitting that we’re a mess is key to how we became believing Christians in the first place!

 

Jesus provides the power to make us new creatures, but His number one commandment of love for others is our marching order for encouraging and helping each other to clean up our mess. This is a big reason why I am committed to my coaching work. I see it is a part of God’s plan for me. He has allowed me to stumble, struggle, and even to fail – more than once! But He has equipped me with every need for serving and helping others to remove their mess.

 

So, it has become a passion for me to help others with the help that I have received from the Lord, and from people He’s placed in my life. He has allowed me to experience trials in my life for a reason! I seek His power of conforming me more to His image each day and through every trial. I’m also thankful for the recognition that His teaching me enables me to strengthen, encourage and comfort those He places in my path.

One of the special blessings of my coaching work comes from the added one on one time with Him as He helps me with each situation, resulting in an ever growing closer relationship. 

 

Are you recognizing your mess and seeking God’s help in getting it cleaned up? Need any help?

June 9, 2025

June 9, 2025

The most predominate focus of my coaching practice centers on helping clients recognize what is needed to ensure that entering into, and maintaining, relationships with others will be healthy and lasting.

 

Coaching involves a relationship in itself, the forming of a partnership with a common goal – to improve the client’s existing relationships and equipping the client to cultivate new relationships that will be healthy and enjoyable.

 

My passion for helping others, and emphasizing relationships, is fueled by the love that God has shown toward me and my relationship with Him. His desire to share His unfathomable love and grace encourage me to share that love with others and to help clients achieve God-given goals. When God’s love touches and heals us, we are placed on a path toward understanding and navigating our way to the establishing of healthy and lasting relationships.

 

Is there a relationship in your life that you could use some help with? Send me a message and we can schedule a free thirty-minute call to talk about a partnership.

May 19, 2025

May 19, 2025

I used to read a devotion book every night with my son titled “Jesus Calling”, authored by Sarah Young. One of those devotions really caught my attention because it was so powerful. It centers on God’s love for each of us. Written as though spoken by Jesus, it reads:


“Be still in the Light of My Presence while I communicate Love to you. There is no force in the universe as powerful as My Love…If you were to experience that now, you would be overwhelmed to the point of feeling crushed…For now, the knowledge of my loving Presence is sufficient to carry you through each day.”

 

In my coaching practice I often emphasize the importance of maintaining healthy relationships. Assuring healthy relationships with others begins with an understanding of the extent of God’s love for each of us. He models His love in His Son who demonstrated His love for us on the cross. If you haven’t experienced His love for yourself and want to experience it, you can begin by praying and by reading His Word and asking the Lord to reveal it to you.

 

If you’re having any issues with relationships, or have other concerns with difficult life issues, and would like some help, just send me a message. I would be happy to talk with you.

 

Remember that God is always wanting to communicate with you, especially with His message of love. Are you learning to take the time to be still and listen for God’s messages?

March 17, 2025

March 17, 2025

Trust is a primary ingredient in establishing a healthy relationship! A solid foundation is needed to produce trust. The Bible tells us that Christ is our spiritual rock (1 Corinthians 10:4). As believers, we are able to build a rock-solid relationship with Him (Matthew 7:24-25). As we build our relationship with the Lord, we are empowered to build healthy relationships with family and friends. 

 

If we don’t accept God’s word that Christ is our foundational rock, we allow doubt to become our enemy! Doubt presents serious roadblocks to building healthy relationships, as well as undermining our spiritual growth. Doubt takes root when we rely on our feelings and experiences, instead of trusting in Christ to direct our path.

 

Are you putting your trust in Christ and building on the Rock?

March 3, 2025

March 3, 2025

Two primary facets of coaching involve help in finding the right direction and encouragement. A major key to providing a positive result is a willing attitude and desire on the part of the client to both receive help and to help themself. 

 

From my experience working in the mental health field, I can’t count how many times my efforts to help clients were thwarted or frustrated because the person I was trying to help did not genuinely and wholeheartedly desire change. They wanted someone (whether me or God) to wave a magic wand, or say a prayer, and presto change-o! All done!  

 

Finding the right direction and experiencing real encouragement takes desire, commitment and hard work, especially on the part of the client! There’s a correlation with the spiritual growth that occurs when a believer experiences the desire to know more about, and become a disciple, of Jesus. The desire and commitment, over time, for spiritual growth produces change. That person becomes more like Jesus when there is consistency in learning and responding to God’s direction day by day.

 

John Darby, a noted author has observed: “Spiritual growth is the Holy Spirit engraving the Lord Jesus on a man’s heart, putting Him into his thoughts, his words, and his ways, just as the Law was engraved upon stones.”

 

If you are ready for change, having a coach can help considerably. But, I invite you to first consider asking yourself a question.

 

“Do I have a desire for a relationship with Jesus Christ and for the spiritual growth that He desires for me?”  

February 3, 2025

February 3, 2025

It’s already February and Valentine’s Day will be here soon!

 

A day to celebrate Love!

 

Valentine’s Day can also be a difficult day for those who do not have a significant other.

 

The good news is that we can all take comfort in knowing that we are loved with an everlasting love. We have a God who loved us so much that He sent His one and only Son to die in our place so that we can enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

 

I don’t know where I would be without the love of God. He has given me all that I have, as well as all that I need, including the wherewithal for coaching as a service to Him and to others.

 

It is His love that fuels my passion for coaching and for helping others. His unfathomable love and grace are my motivation for wanting to share His love and to help others achieve their God-given goals.

 

God is love! Now that is something to celebrate!

October 21, 2024

October 21, 2024

The satisfaction that I enjoy when it becomes apparent that my coaching is helping a client to find a path out of a place of darkness, toward a place of light, has recently been enhanced by adding my certification in Crisis Response and Trauma Care. The focus of this area of coaching is on providing a compassionate and supportive presence to mitigate acute distress following a traumatic event. How people respond to trauma and crisis varies to the same degree that personality varies. What may be traumatic to one person may not phase another.

 

Among the benefits that this area of mental health coaching can provide are stability, comfort and awareness of the possible harm of making quick decisions. The consideration of a particular support system may also provide help along with addressing spiritual and other facets of mental help. The mere presence of working with a mental health coach, generally referred to as the “Ministry of Presence” is usually a paramount benefit in the relief of a traumatic setback in itself. 

 

My own faith in Christ, as Lord of all and the ultimate authority, is what enables me to share what I have learned through my training as a coach with the goal of providing comfort, strength and a path toward light from the dark.

Are you experiencing stress as a result of trauma and the uncertainty around us? How is your connection with God? It would be my privilege to talk with you.

August 5, 2024

August 5, 2024

This got my attention today and I just had to share it with you. 

One of the best tips that I can offer to a client having difficulty with a relationship is to let go and let God

 

Whether the relationship is old or new or involves a person we love, letting go and trusting God often presents a perplexing challenge. A test of our faith is required, especially when the difficulty involves a person that we love, to surrender the difficulty into His care, to trust Him with the problem and to let go.

 

I have faced this challenge numerous times. Over the years, the Lord has either allowed, or caused, the removal of a relationship with someone who I thought would become my partner in life. The reason has not always been clear, but the lesson has been unmistakably clear!

 

Trust and Let Go!

 

Do you have any relationship difficulties that God is calling you to surrender into His hands?

July 22, 2024

July 22, 2024

Not long ago, I read that only 20% of people are coachable.

 

As a coach who desires to bring transformation to people by cementing their personal relationship with Christ and the renewing of their mind (see Romans 12:2), if true, this statistic means that 80% of us can be written off as beneficiaries of this goal of coaching!

 

Why this negative mindset?

 

I suspect that the change and growth associated with coaching is foreseen as a lead in to losing one’s comfort zone. It seems that most of us prefer the comfort of a self-help approach.

 

Coaching provides accountability and consistency that’s missing from self-help. Time and effort are necessary elements in reaching goals. A coach provides support, inspiration, encouragement and the necessary follow through to reach a goal that will bring lasting change.

 

In the words of Charles Spurgeon: “Growth is painful. Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”

 

With coaching guidance, you can get unstuck, move forward, overcome fear and uncertainty, and find hope, healing and peace.

 

If you would like to talk about coaching, send me a message to set up a free half-hour Discovery Call. Be the exception!

 

Are you interested in exploring the possibility of change?