Your Purpose is Hiding in Plain Sight

I believe your purpose is not something outside of you waiting to be found. Purpose is hiding in plain sight in each one of us. Purpose is in the opportunities God places before you to love, serve, and impact others. Purpose is what you choose to say yes to everyday.

The experiences, desires, and gifts already live within you -- they are not accidents—they are part of your calling. When you learn to recognize where God is inviting you to serve, you begin to walk confidently in the purpose He has designed specifically for you. And, you begin to look for it every day.

My mission is to help you discover your unique purpose. Together, we will uncover who God has created you to serve. He prepared them in advance for you. We will identify the needs you are equipped to meet, and build the confidence to live from your calling instead of searching for it.

My own adoption story has shaped the way I serve. As someone whose identity is rooted in God's adoption of me through Jesus Christ—as His beloved child and co-heir—I have a unique passion for those touched by adoption: adoptees, adoptive moms and birth mothers. I understand questioning of identity, belonging, and worth, and I create a space where those wounds can be acknowledged with compassion and hope.

My coaching is about more than setting goals. It is about soothing the soul, strengthening identity, and helping you see yourself through God's eyes. When you work with me, you will develop transparency about your purpose, confidence in your calling, and the courage to embrace the opportunities God places before you each day.

You don't need to find your purpose. You need to extract the one God has already been revealing to you through the person He created you to be.

Two Areas My Coaching Can Help You Thrive in the Adoption Arena

I am a unique kind of Life Coach. My approach is different than what you may understand about Life Coaching.

Life Coaching is planning forward for the future.

I help my clients think forward, plan forward and build forward. There is really nothing in the past you need. The past is what brought you to this point: needing guidance. So, let me help you grow into something different than your past.

No one stood at a river wondering how they would cross and plan to built a bridge backwards in the opposite direction. No one, on their 10th anniversary, started planning their wedding.

No one builds a bridge backwards

#1 Relationships

Many adoptees want to build relationships using a backwards model of reclaiming or experiencing everything they have lost in the past.

I am here to help you move forward in relationships where you had to jump right in the middle of with no prior history. I don’t help you look back. I help you build a bridge forward, planning forward and thinking forward. I guide you to other paths when a bridge is not possible. That is hope even amid the scars.

There is HOPE even amid scars

#2 Behaviors

Many adoptees have identified their destructive behaviors— they don’t need the identification process. They need the strategies to help them move forward.

I am a different kind of Life Coach because I discuss behaviors in the present. I help them explain what they do. I discuss their future. I help them see what is possible and how to choose it in the future.

I don't start with the past and go forward. The past is only useful to motivate you to create the steps that help you move forward. What has caused the behavior will come out, but examining the past I will leave up to counselors and psychologists. We all have our place.

My method is a forward thinking approach for my clients. I have two nicknames from friends that are appropriate and that explain my method: George, like the curious monkey and Tigger, like the positive, bouncy tiger. I want to instill a curiosity and wonder for knowledge that changes lives while pointing you to gratitude and positivity even in the midst of the storm around you.

Positivity in storms

Are you curious about the possibilities that my coaching can open up? Are you willing to focus on ever ounce of gratitude while in your storm?

Let's chat. First session is free to see if my services can benefit you and we will make a plan.

Email me at https://www.steepedinpurpose.com/contact

or text to schedule a chat at 817-992-3177.

To buy my book, Adoption Reimagined: Building Relationships in the Adoption Arena and What To Do When It Doesn't Work, click the link here.

Adoption Reimagined: Don't Ever Quit

It sure has been a minute since I last updated about my book, Adoption Reimagined. I haven't quit! I have made progress towards my publishing goal.

How about you? What goal did you make in 2023? Did you make it a priority or get distracted and put it on the back burner?

I got distracted, I admit, but I never put it on the back burner or threw in the towel. I continued to make plans, decisions and steps that directly related to my end goal.

I tried to write every morning. I continued to gain knowledge about adoption by talking to others in the adoption arena. I read other's stories. I made a logo. I worked with my publisher every month. I added a marketing expert to my team. I let others read my manuscript to critique it and make it better. I had photos made to launch my book. I have sent all the chapters to my editor for final review.

Every step was a step towards my goal. Your goal may not be to write a book. What is your goal? What steps have you made towards accomplishing your goal?

I have been working on this book for about 5 years. So, never ever quit! Never give up! Just keep moving forward because steps towards your goal is progress.

I also added some cheerleaders, prayer warriors and encouragers to my team. Who do you have that can support you, encourage you and kick you in the pants if needed? We are not meant to DO life alone! It was not good for Adam to be alone. We are created to be in relationship with one another.

Challenge

• What is your goal?

• What choice can you make that keeps your goal a priority?

• How can you eliminate distractions that take you away from your goal?

• Who can you add to your team to help you with the details so you don't get off course with the minutia?

• Who can you ask to cheer you on and pray for you?

Whatever it is you are struggling with, I would love to be your cheerleader and help you plan the next steps that are right for you.

Let's chat! Call or Text 817-992-3177