Counseling & Coaching

"I will practice gratitude to access joy."

"I will practice gratitude to access joy."

-Brene Brown

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

– Martin Luther King

"...but joy comes in the morning."

"...but joy comes in the morning."

-Psalm 30:5

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

– Mother Theresa

I’m glad you’re here!

I chose the name, “Joyful Life” because it elicits such a hopeful feeling. “Joy” is my word for 2016 in the hopes that I would choose it more often in the daily stressors of life. Even in dark days or tough moments, I want to live with the hope that joy will return. As it says in Psalm 30:5 “…weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.”

To me it means, even though we have hard seasons in life, there is always joy and renewal that can follow. I find hope in the promised joy to come. I want you to experience that, too.

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