Resiliency Coaching
Resiliency Coaching
Resiliency Coaching
This unique form of Life Coaching provides strengths-based support for people struggling through a difficult season of life, and can help with a range of challenges including stress, anxiety, anger, grief or despair, as well as support through life transitions, trauma or relationship issues ... (more)
Meet Jim
Resiliency Coaching
Resiliency Coaching
With a passion for those who are hurting and dealing with life’s challenges, Jim has devoted his life to supporting individuals and families through all life stages. His passion and life mission is to walk with and care for people, helping them nurture hope and resilience in all the rhythms of life ... (more)
Soul Care
Resiliency Coaching
Soul Care
Many of us are awakening to the reality of disconnected lives running on “empty.” We survive, but thriving seems far off – maybe not even possible. Life, as we are living it, is not sustainable. Soul Care invites us to trust that we can experience fullness of life now, whole and connected ... (more)
Resiliency COACHING
WHAT IS A RESILIENCY COACH?
This unique form of LIFE COACHING provides strengths-based support for people struggling through a difficult season of life. Specializing in non-clinical care, coaches are trained professionals who can help you experience hope, strength and freedom through a range of conditions including stress, anxiety, anger, grief or despair, as well as offer support through life transitions, trauma or relationship issues.
A RESILIENCY COACH compassionately and emphatically seeks to empower positive change -- helping people to manage symptoms, build support for recovery, and work towards freedom and wholeness. It is action-oriented with an emphasis on improving one’s present life and reaching goals for the future.
Through this process, a RESILIENCY COACH can help you:
- Identify underlying causes of distress.
- Recognize and address negative thought patterns.
- Realize untapped potential and strengths.
- Identify toxic habits and unhealthy behavioral patterns.
- Be empowered toward healthy action and progress.
- Establish realistic milestones to track growth.
- Regain self-confidence and a sense of self-worth.
- Explore and rediscover passions and motivations.
- Seek meaningful purpose and contentment in life.
Through a holistic approach (physical, mental, emotional, relational, etc.), a RESILIENCY COACH partners with people to help them develop skills to overcome obstacles. Coaches provide fresh perspective for greater awareness that helps reframe thinking patterns, manage emotions, and address problems more effectively. Coaches also partner with other healthcare professionals when more specific clinical care is needed.
LINK: COACHING & SOUL CARE
LINK: 20 TRAITS OF COACHES
HOW IS COACHING DIFFERENT FROM COUNSELING?
Coaches and counselors both help you to improve your life! While coachlng and counseling can work effectivelyt in partnership with one another, there are also some important distinctions.
Credentials. A Life Coach has worked through specific training and a certification program through an accredited organization. Counselors hold a minimum of a master’s degree in psychology or a related field, and must complete licensing requirements in their state.
Diagnoses. A coach cannot diagnose mental illness, although they can recommend that a client seek a diagnosis from a counselor or doctor.
Medication. Coaches do not prescribe medication. They can refer a client see a psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practitioner if medication may be helpful.
Area of focus. A Life Coach helps clients experience hope, strength and freedom by empowering skills for present and future challenges. Psychologists and counselors are more specifically trained to help clients heal from past and present challenges.
LINK: RESILIENCY/LIFE COACH MYTHS
LINK: IS A COACH RIGHT FOR ME?
SOUL CARE COMPANION
What is Soul Care?
Attending to our SOUL is an essential skill for RESILIENCE...
Your SOUL is the core of your truest self -- the real you in heart, mind, body and spirit. It is the center of our being and the place where we experience love, joy, hope, peace, contentment, and strength. Our soul is the home of all connection and wholeness.
SOUL CARE is the intentional practice of giving attention to our soul. It is about learning to live well and be well through the practice of integrating all aspects of human experience (spiritual, mental, relational, behavioral, vocational, etc.). Caring for the soul is making the connection between the vital and important aspects of our lives and living unified with ourselves and others.
A SOUL CARE COMPANION is someone who attentively walks with another during a specific season or experience of life. They share the ministry of presence -- of discovering and creating space with another to process, reflect, and embrace the movement of resiliency, hope, and growth in daily life.
... "Whenever we seek to live our lives with meaning and purpose, through prayer, meditation, and other spiritual practice we’re engaging with our soul as a radical RESILIENCE skill." (Alice Updike Scannell)
LINK: COACHING & SOUL CARE
LINK: COMPONENTS OF SOUL CARE
More about me
Compassionate Advocacy
Throughout my life, I've had a passion of walking with people who are hurting and dealing with life’s challenges. Starting out as a psychology/social work major in college, and then pursuing a degree in ministry, I have focused my entire career serving the community. For the past 30 years, I have worked full-time with students and families through the church, caring for people in all life rhythms and stages. I am a board certified Master Christian Life Coach (MCLC) with the American Association of Christian Counselors, specializing in Mental Health, Grief and Trauma.
Outside of full-time work, I am also a certified Firefighter, Emergency Medical Responder and Chaplain. Since 2010, I have also served as part of our Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Team and am a founding member of the Tennessee Disaster Mental Health Strike Team. In these roles, I have responded to floods, tornados, terrorist attacks, major accidents and unexpected deaths, seeking to offer compassionate advocacy that helps manage stress, support resilience, and provide connection to vital resources.
In 2016, I had the honor to be part of the “Reimagining Health Collaborative” with Duke University focused on growing needs around mental health. Through this work I was able to collaborate with organizations throughout Chattanooga to promote mental health awareness, education, and access to resources. I now serve as a member of the Advisory Council with Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network (TSPN), am a QPR Suicide Intervention instructor, and part of their postvention response team. As a result, I was also invited to be a Chaplain for two local behavioral health facilities.
I am married to my high school crush, Bindy and we have three adult children. My life mission is to walk with and care for people, especially those hurting or struggling, helping them nurture strength and resilience in all the rhythms of life.