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Helping wounded Christians heal through biblical clarity and gospel-centered counseling. Christian-based support for emotional healing, trauma recovery, and spiritual discernment.

12/14/2025

Sitting in my office, writing a birthday card, and realizing how different my faith feels now.

There was a time when even quiet moments felt heavy — like I should be praying more, doing more, being more for God.

But healing taught me this:
Peace isn’t laziness.
Stillness isn’t disobedience.
And God doesn’t require urgency to be near.

If your faith feels exhausting instead of grounding, it’s not because you’re failing God.
Sometimes it’s because your nervous system learned faith through chaos.

And that can be healed.

You’re allowed to experience God in calm moments like this — ordinary, gentle, and whole.

12/12/2025

Here’s what nobody tells you…

Healing doesn’t feel holy.
Most days it feels confusing, humbling, and honestly… embarrassing.

Nobody tells you that when you finally start growing in biblical truth, God begins exposing the patterns you learned in emotionally chaotic homes.
He pulls up the lies you believed in charismatic culture.
He confronts the parts of you you’ve avoided for decades.

And it gets messy.
You cry more.
You repent more.
You see how much you misunderstood God.
You realize how much your emotions ruled your decisions.
And you finally see how much Scripture you never actually applied.

Nobody tells you that leaving bad theology feels like grief.
You mourn who you used to be.
You mourn the years you wasted.
You mourn the women you trusted who only led you deeper into confusion.

But here’s the part nobody says out loud:

Christ heals you slowly on purpose.
Not because He’s punishing you,
but because He’s rebuilding you into a woman who can finally stand.

A woman who can spot lies.
A woman who can raise her children with clarity, not chaos.
A woman who can break generational patterns.
A woman who can be honest without fear.
A woman anchored in the Word — not emotions, not hype, not confusion.

If you’re in that place right now —
where everything feels exposed,
your heart feels tender,
and you’re wondering why this hurts so much…

It’s because God is not letting you go back to who you were.
He’s forming you into who you were meant to be.

Stay with Him.
Stay in the Word.
Healing is holy even when it doesn’t feel holy.

12/10/2025

Ladies… I want to invite you into something simple but deeply needed in this season:
A moment to breathe.
A moment to reset.
A moment to sit with someone who understands the weight of confusing faith, emotional chaos, and growing into the woman God is forming you to be.

I’m sitting here at Life Anchor Center with a warm cup of coffee in my hands, and it reminded me how many women in our community are walking around exhausted, poured out, and spiritually dehydrated — but trying to hold it all together.

So here’s my invitation:

Come join me for a cup of coffee. ☕️

No pressure.
No performance.
No “church hype.”
Just a safe, grounded space for real women who are tired of pretending they’re okay.

If you grew up in emotional chaos…
If you’re rebuilding your faith after bad theology…
If you’re trying to heal, but you don’t even know where to begin…
If you’re a wife, a mother, a daughter, a believer who feels the weight of life and doesn’t have a place to exhale…

Come sit with me.
Let’s talk.
Let’s slow down.
Let’s remember that Christ meets us in ordinary moments like this — not just the big ones.

Life Anchor Center isn’t just a counseling office.
It’s a place to be grounded again.
A place to rediscover clarity and truth.
A place where you don’t have to hold everything together — you just have to show up.

Fairport, Rochester, and surrounding areas — my door is open.
I’ve got a cup of coffee waiting for you.
And if you’re walking through a messy season, you don’t have to do it alone.

Send me a message if you’d like to stop by.
Let’s anchor your soul in truth, one conversation at a time. ⚓️



12/10/2025

How sad that people still believe they can “fix” people.

I see this often in the mental-health world — this idea that the therapist is the healer, the fixer, the one who carries the weight of someone else’s transformation. And honestly… that belief crushes both the client and the counselor.

Here’s the truth I’ve learned as a biblical counselor:

👉 I cannot heal a human soul.
👉 I cannot rescue anyone from their sin, trauma, or patterns.
👉 I cannot be the center of someone’s transformation.

Only Christ heals.
Only the Spirit renews the mind.
Only the Word anchors a life in truth.

My role is not to replace God — it’s to walk with you, open Scripture with you, help you see what’s happening in your heart, and point you back to the One who actually does the restoring.

And honestly?
It’s freeing.

Because when you stop trying to “fix” people, you stop carrying burdens God never asked you to carry.
You stop performing.
You stop striving.
You stay grounded, humble, and dependent.

Counseling is not light work.
But it is sacred work — because we point people to the only true Healer, not ourselves.

12/08/2025

🧂 I’m rebuilding my entire business for 2026… and honestly, this season is stretching me in ways no one prepares you for.

Learning Kajabi from the ground up.
Moving every client, every product, every email.
Redoing my whole website.
Creating new programs.
Launching the Salt Room.
And still trying to understand how to market everything without losing my mind.

It’s a lot.
Especially when you’re doing it while turning 50, dealing with real life, managing hormones, staying sober, trying to eat healthy, running a home, and growing as a biblical counselor.

Women don’t talk about this part enough.
Not the polished launch.
Not the final product.
But the messy, overwhelming in-between where you’re Googling how to do one thing on Kajabi while answering emails and trying to remember if you even ate lunch.

Sometimes I sit there thinking,
“Lord, I’m called to help women heal… but I’m still learning how to build.”
And yet, He keeps reminding me:

You don’t build in your own strength.
You build in Mine.

Kajabi is teaching me discipline.
The Salt Room is teaching me patience.
Rebranding is teaching me humility.
And this whole process is teaching me dependence.

You don’t have to know everything before you start.
You don’t have to grow fast.
You don’t have to be the “perfect entrepreneur.”

You just have to be faithful.

So for every woman rebuilding her life, business, identity, or calling in Christ—
you’re allowed to learn as you go.
You’re allowed to start small.
You’re allowed to do hard things while still healing.

This season is stretching me…
but it’s also shaping me.

One step.
One client.
One Kajabi tutorial.
One Salt Room idea.
One prayer at a time.

God is in it.
And that’s enough for me to keep going.

12/08/2025

Walking out on a beautiful snowy day in Fairport, I had a moment I never thought I’d experience growing up in Rochester.

For most of my life, this place felt heavy.
Cold.
Chaotic.
Unsettled.
Like the backdrop of a story I couldn’t wait to escape.

And I did escape — all the way to Florida for almost twelve years.
Sunshine, beaches, palm trees… everything Rochester wasn’t.

But here I am.
Back in the snow.
Back in the quiet.
Back in the place where God first started untangling the mess I carried inside me.

And strangely enough…
I’m finally enjoying it.

Not because the city changed.
Not because the weather changed.
But because I changed.

Sobriety began here.
Clarity began here.
A new foundation began here.
And God brought me back to the very place I once resented —
not to repeat the past,
but to redeem it.

When you grow up in emotional chaos or spiritual confusion, it’s easy to assume that healing has to happen somewhere else. Somewhere new. Somewhere clean.

But sometimes God brings you right back to the place where it all started —
not to trap you,
but to show you
that you’re not the same woman anymore.

Today, the snow doesn’t feel heavy.
It feels peaceful.
And this city doesn’t feel like a reminder of who I was…
but proof of who God is.

Faithful.
Steady.
Patient enough to rewrite a whole life
one season at a time.

12/07/2025

Today in church, I found myself standing in a corner talking to someone…
but also quietly watching people.
(It’s the former chaos-survivor in me — always observing, always reading the room without even trying.)

Then Thursday night, after a birthday dinner, I stepped outside to record something for later…
not realizing my husband was recording me at the same time.
Two completely different moments —
but they both revealed the same thing to me:

Women who grew up in emotional chaos or spiritual confusion rarely feel fully “in” a moment.
We’re present… but we’re also scanning.
We’re listening… but we’re also noticing everything around us.
We’re talking… but we’re also protecting ourselves, just in case.

And I realized —
I still do this.
Not from fear anymore,
but from years of learning how to survive environments that were unstable, unpredictable, or spiritually confusing.

But here’s the beauty God is teaching me in this season:

Even when I’m observing…
even when I’m recording quietly…
even when I’m tucked in a corner watching the room —
I am no longer that overwhelmed, unstable woman who didn’t know her place.

I’m grounded now.
I’m anchored in truth.
I know who I belong to.
And the older I get, the more I realize:

You don’t have to be the loudest woman in the room to be secure.
You don’t have to be the center of attention to be seen by God.
You don’t have to perform to have value.
You don’t have to explain yourself to be understood.
You can stand in a corner, or step outside to record a thought —
and still be a woman God is shaping, strengthening, and using.

To the women in my niche —
the watchers, the deep feelers, the quiet processors,
the ones who grew up in chaos and are now learning how to breathe:

You’re not strange.
You’re not “too much.”
You’re not socially off.
You’re healing.

And God is teaching you—
just like He’s teaching me—
how to be present without fear,
observant without anxiety,
and grounded without the old survival mode.

Two moments…
one reminder:

God doesn’t just meet us in the loud places.
He meets us in the corners, too.



12/06/2025

As I’m sitting in the library this morning, watching my grandson flip through picture books, I started thinking about the women I counsel…
women who love Jesus deeply, but feel bruised by patterns inside the church that no one wants to talk about.

Here’s the truth:

A lot of what women normalize in church culture isn’t “personality.”
It’s sin wrapped in spiritual language.

Here are four patterns I see constantly:

1. Gossip disguised as “prayer.”

You’re not “sharing a burden.”
You’re exposing someone’s struggle to feel important or involved.
God calls that slander, not intercession.

2. Niceness with no love behind it.

A polite tone with a cold heart is still hypocrisy.
Politeness is not a fruit of the Spirit.
Love is.

3. Quiet comparison & rivalry.

Some women never compete out loud — they compete internally.
They watch every move but never celebrate anything.
That’s insecurity, not discernment.

4. The superiority mindset.

Using theology to elevate yourself above someone else isn’t maturity.
It’s pride.
Calling it “discernment” doesn’t make it holy.

These patterns damage unity and hurt real women — often silently.

So how do we respond biblically?

We don’t fight fire with fire.
We also don’t pretend it’s not happening.

We:
• Guard our hearts
• Refuse to internalize their behavior
• Create distance when needed
• Stay truthful, not dramatic
• Bless without enabling
• Let someone’s fruit guide our boundaries
• And trust God with what we cannot see

And then… we check our own hearts.

None of us are exempt.
Sanctification is slow, but real —
and it makes us softer toward others and more honest with ourselves.

A woman walking closely with Christ doesn’t need to compete, compare, monitor, or perform.
She lives anchored in truth, not approval.

And honestly?
That’s the kind of woman the church desperately needs right now.

12/04/2025

📍 Every time I walk into my office, I feel a quiet battle inside of me…

“Will anyone show up today?”
“Will this season keep growing?”
“Am I doing enough?”
“Is this what God really wants?”
“Will this work actually bear fruit?”

People see the finished room —
the books, the chairs, the calm atmosphere —
but they don’t see the part where I’m standing at the door
asking God to steady my heart.

Because when you come from a life of instability,
even success can feel scary.
Consistency feels foreign.
Growth feels unpredictable.
And trusting God sometimes feels like stepping into a room with no guarantees.

That’s the part no one talks about.

The counselor has to depend on Christ
just as deeply as the women who sit across from her.

Every time I unlock this door, God reminds me:

“This is not your work.
This is My work.
You plant. I make it grow.”
(1 Corinthians 3:7)

My job is faithfulness —
not control.
Not predicting outcomes.
Not managing numbers.
Not forcing growth.

Just showing up with truth.
Showing up with Scripture.
Showing up with humility.
Showing up with a heart that knows
every single transformation belongs to Him.

And maybe you need this reminder too:

You don’t need to feel strong to obey God.
You don’t need to feel confident to be faithful.
You don’t need to see the whole picture to take today’s step.

Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do
is walk into the room,
sit down,
and trust that God will fill the gaps
you can’t.

That’s what I’m learning —
one session, one prayer, one quiet morning at a time.

12/03/2025

😎 Sitting in my car today, cleaning my sunglasses, I had a thought I wish someone told me years ago…
Most of us don’t realize how much of our life we’re looking at through dirty lenses.
Not literal ones —
but the emotional, spiritual, and theological “glasses” we grew up with.
If your childhood was chaotic,
if your church life was confusing,
if your mother was unstable,
if false teaching shaped your worldview,
if survival mode was normal…
Then your “lens” is scratched, foggy, and distorted —
but you think you’re seeing clearly.
That’s why:
• healthy relationships feel suspicious
• boundaries feel wrong
• rest feels unsafe
• people-pleasing feels like love
• discernment feels like fear
• emotional chaos feels like “the Holy Spirit”
• correction feels like rejection
You’re not broken —
you’re just looking through lenses you never cleaned.
And sanctification?
It’s the slow, faithful work of God wiping away what life taught you,
so you can finally see truth clearly.
Biblical counseling is basically this:
God replacing the lens of trauma with the lens of Scripture.
As I wiped my sunglasses clean, I whispered,
“Lord, clean my vision too.
Help me see what’s real.
Not what my past taught me.”
If you’re realizing your “lens” needs changing —
you’re not behind.
You’re waking up.
One truth, one moment, one cleaned lens at a time.

12/02/2025

Some women are not your assignment — and that’s not unloving, it’s discerning.

Let’s be honest:
• chronically unstable women who won’t face their
patterns
• broke women stuck in survival mode with no desire to
grow
• women loyal to abusive churches because “that’s all they
know”
• women addicted to prophetic movement dopamine and
“words”
• women chasing emotional hype but rejecting biblical
transformation

That entire charismatic chaos ecosystem shaped me for years — and by God’s grace, I walked out of it. And now I refuse to build my ministry on the same dysfunction I had to heal from.

This season is different.

God is putting a new type of woman in front of me…
Women who are:
• self-aware enough to name their sin and their wounds
• teachable instead of triggered
• ready for real healing, not spiritual theatrics
• hungry for doctrine, not declarations
• emotionally regulated enough to sit, reflect, and do the
work
• spiritually humble, not self-appointed prophets
• financially able and willing to invest in actual
transformation

These are the women who grow.
These are the women who produce fruit.
These are the women who don’t waste the grace God gives them.

I’m committed to serving women who are stepping out of confusion, chaos, and counterfeit spirituality — and into clarity, truth, and solid ground.

This is the work we do at Life Anchor Center.
And these are the women I’m called to walk with in this season.

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