Connecting members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with certified coaches who have all the tools to help you live a life full of peace, love, fun, and progress.
Each episode features a highly trained and impactful life coach who is listed on the Life Coach Directory for Latter-day Saints (ldslifecoaches.com) and is filled with practical tools and ideas to get even more out of this life then you thought possible. Your life may be good already, but what if it could be amazing?
President David O. McKay said, “The nobelist calling in the world is motherhood.” As women in the church we are taught this truth from day one. All of our life plans and focus are on this calling, and for a good reason. Having and raising children truly is a noble calling. But what does it mean when we finally find ourselves in that role and we are extremely unhappy? Have we done something wrong? Are we broken? Will we ever truly find that happiness we were told we would receive once we became a mother? Come listen to the podcast today as coach Jessica Wiest talks about her own crisis of motherhood when she realized her children were not bringing her the happiness she thought they would. Hear her take on how you can know if you are in a motherhood crisis as well as five great takeaways on how to enjoy your kids more.
We all have to eat in order to live, but of all the relationships we have in our lives, the majority of us have a very unhealthy relationship with the food we eat. We are constantly labeling foods as either “good” or “bad” and if we eat certain foods that do things to our body, then we also must be “good” or “bad”. But Heavenly Father doesn’t love us based on the foods we eat or the size of our bodies. Worth has nothing to do with body shape or if we look good in the latest fashion style. Obsessing over food and our bodies is a huge tool of Satan that he uses to distract us from using our time and energy to really focus on the things that matter, seek to feel the love of God in our lives, and to feel peace instead of shame, disgust, and regret.
While grief and loss are a natural part of life, it is a process that we often don’t know how to navigate. When hit with grief, our emotions are deep and complex and layered on top of each other. We can often feel like our entire world has been turned upside down and that we will never experience happiness and joy again. Learning how to make our way through the grief process so that we can be stronger and truly live a life of joy and happiness once again can be difficult, but it is most definitely possible. Come listen to Stephanie Pickle as she relates her own journey through grief and loss and what she has learned from those experiences that now help her as she coaches her clients.
Adam Miller is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in McKinney, Texas and is the author of eight books. On today’s special addition podcast you will be able to listen as Adam discusses some passages from his book “Letters to a Young Mormon” with the Latter-day life coaches you normally hear on the podcast. Adam and the coaches address things like what sin is, what translation of the scriptures needs to look like in our own lives, and how to fully understand the hunger that is given to us because we have a mortal body.
When we become parents we have a lot of expectations of who our children should and will become. These expectations are only good until our children start to take a different path than the one we thought they would or should take. But as coach Christi Davis will show you, letting go of those expectations is the key to having a good relationship with your teenager and allowing you to enjoy them as they navigate becoming young adults. As a parent of teens your job is just to provide an environment that allows you teenagers to choose and make choices that will help them have a great life.
There is a cultural belief in the Church that the best place for a woman to be is in the home and that if she does anything else outside of the home, has any desire to do anything other than tend to home and children, then there is something wrong - wrong with her or wrong with her life situation. But desires are God-given and each woman’s path is as unique and different as there are women in this world. When all is said and done, the path a woman takes in her life is between her, her spouse, and Heavenly Father. Coach Shannon Resare shares valuable insight as to why allowing women to forge their own path is so important and why whatever decision a woman makes as to how her life looks allows room for abundance and possibility.
Loving yourself can seem like a selfish thing to do, but in actuality it is the most selfless thing because when you love yourself you allow yourself to love others more fully and completely. A mistake so many people make is that they believe that in order to be loveable, or to love themselves, they must be perfect and have all the desired traits and qualities they are striving for. But if we look to Heavenly Father and the Savior as examples of loving us, they love us exactly where we are. They are not withholding love until we reach a certain level or meet specific criteria. Their love for us is always and never ending, the same should be true for how we love ourselves.
Marriages are relationships that take constant work and input from both spouses. Even under the best of circumstances, there can be struggles and growing pains. When one of the spouses has issues with mental health, those struggles can become even more intense and difficult to navigate. Coach Jessica Farmer works specifically with individuals who have a spouse dealing with mental health problems, so that they know how to navigate through not only dealing with their spouse’s mental ups and downs, but also with their own as well. A huge area she focuses on is teaching people how to set and establish healthy boundaries that will benefit not only them but their spouse as well.
Spirituality is our connection with the divine. It is where our spirits are able to connect on a level above mortality with God. Often we can become scared and fearful of that higher level connection and what it will mean for the current truths we hold dear if we learn things that contradict them and the beliefs of those around us. To Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, discovering those truths from a place of courage instead of fear is how we have integrity with ourselves and with God.
So often we think we know what’s best for our kids. When they are young we make a lot of decisions for them, but as they grow older it can be tricky to let go and allow them to make choices for themselves. On this episode of the podcast, Heather and Tiffany talk about the importance of letting your young adult children make their own decisions, how that is good for them, why it’s necessary for their development and growth, and how it can actually strengthen the relationship you have with them. Takeaways: There is a lot of pressure put on young adults these days from parents and society about what they should be doing with their lives that it can be difficult for them to find a space to know what they really want and who they want to become.
