Hey y’all! Everyone has a story and here’s mine.

I was born and raised in the Bible Belt (Alabama). My parents were huge, keeping me and my sibling in church. (We were non-denominational) I loved Jesus at a very early age. I even asked to be filled with the Holy Spirit at age 7. 

As I began my teenage years, my family’s attendance to church practically disappeared overnight. Then the pressure to act a certain way, look a certain way, speak a certain way, hang around certain people, became very important to my parents. I still loved God and tried my best to be a good Christian girl based on what I knew growing up but be accepted by society too. The only rebellious teenage thing I did was date a guy my parents hated, my senior year in high school. 

Flash forward ten years later, I marry my husband in 2015, and we have our first son. I went through post-partum depression and had the mindset that as a stay-at-home mom I had to do everything to be accepted by husband. I even had my mom whispering in my ear that if I did lose weight, look a certain way, do this, do that, my husband was going to leave me. Barely out of PPD in 2018, I become pregnant with our second son. This time it was worse. I shut down mentally and emotionally with my husband. I am still in love with him and still wanted him but somehow, I couldn’t get those feelings to overthrow the shutdown. The enemy was at his loudest at this point. The thoughts the enemy gave me would surely make southern women clutch their pearls. 

In 2022, I find out that my husband had been having an affair for over year. I heard God tell me in that moment to “fight for him”. He swore to me that he ended it but in February 2023 I find out he was lying the whole time. I started individual therapy at that same time. My husband was supposed to do the same but never followed through. I did everything that my husband asked to fight for our marriage and him. I was told it was my fault that he cheated. In therapy, my therapist helped me through my healing from my narcissistic parents, and she even believes my husband is a narcissist based on what was currently going on in our marriage.

In October 2023, God moved in a mighty way. I had a breakdown. My husband came to get our boys and take them to the state he’s working in and I somehow ended up at a women’s encounter weekend where God wanted my to surrender EVERYTHING to Him. And I did. I was baptized for 3rd time in my life. On my drive home, as I was on such a Holy Ghost high, I heard God say very plainly He was restoring it all. 

God called me to coach others in their walk because restoration of our marriages and our families first starts with the restoration of ourselves. I have my certification in faith-based coaching and in the start of my certification for Christian counseling. 

My husband has filed for divorce, but God has the final say. I may not have my marriage or family restored just yet, but the most important part is that I am restored with God. I am humbled and honored to partner with God and others with the goal of restoring ourselves to God first and restoring marriages and family’s God’s way.