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?
Parenting is a role in life that many of us don’t get any formal training in. We often end up parenting the way we were parented and for most of you listening the model that was shown you was a fear based parenting style. Coach Crystal Haitsma is a coach that focuses on a different approach to parenting that she likes to call connection based parenting. She has come to believe that this is truly how God parents each of us and if we want to be able to parent like He does we need to heal our relationship with Him. She is talking on the podcast today about how being a good parent is an inside healing process for the parent and when a parent does this, the children will follow and change as well. This is a great episode and one filled with hope because research shows that no matter what age your children are, even if they are adults, you can change your relationship with them and truly gain greater connection.
Most of us try to avoid anxiety at any cost. It’s an emotion that tends to not feel the best and our natural instinct is to run away from it. But no emotion is bad and all have been given to us by our Heavenly Father. Coach Cory Hardman is on the podcast today talking about all the benefits we can have in our lives if we can learn to use anxiety as a tool to propel us forward to achieving our goals. Since every single one of you listening is a human, this is an emotion you deal with so come see exactly how well you may or may not be using anxiety in your life to create good things. If you have a teen or young adult who you know could use some help with managing their anxiety, pass this podcast along to them and then encourage them to sign up to chat with Cory on how they can manage it better.
We are wired to be together. There is much comfort in gathering with like minded people to discuss and navigate the ups and downs of life. There are times in life where feeling like we don’t have a group and don’t have the support we need is more acute. Coach Jane Copier works with one of these groups. She helps women who are in midlife come together and get the support they need to transition from having most of their time being wrapped up in taking care of their children to having an empty home and learning a new role of being a mother to adult children and having to make their own schedules. Jane is passionate about helping women in this stage of life and has created an amazing program entitled “The Empty Nest Academy” where as she puts it, it’s a place “for women who want to make the second half, the best half.”
Every invested parent hopes to have a lasting relationship with their children once they grow and leave the house but transitioning from having your children at home to adult children can often be difficult. Coach Brooke Oniki is a proponent of making sure the relationship between parent and child is a horizontal one. When a horizontal relationship is achieved parents become more trusted and they can exist as a collaborator in their adult children’s lives. There is a lot covered on today's episode and Brooke discusses so much about the importance of horizontal relationships and how they will benefit your life in so many ways.
We are sexual beings just as much as we are physical and spiritual beings. In fact, the development of our spiritual being is connected to the development of our sexual one. Coach Dan Purcell is on the podcast today talking about the importance of sexuality and how we can each develop it more. He is a firm believer that sexuality is best grown in a marriage relationship and that parents can have a great influence on their children’s sexuality as they grow their sexual relationship in the marriage. Dan shares great tips as well as the name of a fun sex app he’s developed that is free and will help spice things up in your marriage.
We all yearn and are wired to be connected to those around us. So how do we do it, how do we become more connected to those in our lives. Coach Meagan Skidmore feels the key to connection is the ability and willingness to be vulnerable. On today’s podcast she shares great examples and insights on how to be more vulnerable and what connection can look like when we are. If you feel like there is a relationship in your life that could use better connection, look at how vulnerable you are willing to be and then see if you can practice vulnerability more. The research shows you will almost always achieve your goal of greater connection.
We have many many thoughts that come in and out of our mind each day. We often feel like we have no control over them. When we feel like we have no control over our thoughts that can sometimes cause a problem because it sets us on a course towards what Coach Jennifer Barnhart likes to call “‘Thought Tornadoes'”. A cycle of spinning thoughts in our heads that get us nowhere and leave emotional damage along the way. But there is a way to get out of these and Jennifer has designed a whole course to help you do it. So listen today to learn more about what a thought tornado actually is and how you can stop having them and then go signup for Jennifer’s course to put it all into practice.
This is episode #134. Each episode has been a conversation with a coach. The question for you the listener is have you taken the leap and signed up for coaching yourself? The great thing about coaching is that there are so many different ways to receive coaching and as many coaching styles as their are coaches so if you have worries about being vulnerable and sharing the things that are holding you back, it’s almost a guarantee that you will find a coach here that you will feel safe with and who can help you uplevel your life. An amazing way to get coached is through one-on-one coaching and coach Heather Rasband is here talking all about why one-on-one is a great option to receive the guidance and support you need.
The phrase “holding space” is very Coach specific lingo and yet, it is a skill that would benefit everyone. Today coach Denita Bremer is here talking about what the term “holding space” means to her, how we can become better at doing it, what it means for us and others, and most importantly, how it helps us become like our Savior Jesus Christ. Denita is a trauma coach and we have talked a lot about trauma in the last few episodes. This skill of holding space by a coach is key in helping others overcome trauma. So, if you feel like you really need a safe individual to handle your experiences, reach out to Denita so she can hold space for you in overcoming your trauma.
When trauma is introduced to the body it often gets stored there because one doesn’t know how to release it. But it can be released and is necessary for a healthy mind-body connection. Cami Birdno is back again this week talking specifically about four main tools or practices that one can use to identify and release the trauma we have within us. As Cami will state, this is just an introductory overview of four main tools, so if you want to learn more please reach out to Cami so she can help you learn the tools better and apply them in your quest to release the trauma in your body.
