Center for Christian Coaching Blog
“Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.”
Psalm 86:11
Helping Clients Overcome Self-Sabotage
One of our roles as Christian Life Coaches is to help clients overcome barriers that hinder them from walking in all the Lord’s blessings. One life-draining barrier clients may experience is self-sabotage. Consider some of these terms used to describe self-sabotage in...
Staying Curious with Life Coaching Clients
Christian Life Coaching is a rewarding career where we have the privilege of supporting clients to overcome obstacles keeping them from where they are to where God has called them to be. The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with...
What Sets Christian Life Coaching Apart?
One of the beautiful things about Life Coaching is the abundance of options. You have the opportunity to match your calling with an area of specialty in your Life Coaching career. Many Life Coaches discover they are passionate about a particular facet of coaching. Do...
How to Help Coaching Clients Set Goals for 2023
It’s a new year, and many clients are feeling pressure to select their “word of the year” and make New Year’s Resolutions. And even though a new year isn’t necessary for reflection and reevaluation, it’s still an opportune time for your clients to put plans in place...
How You Can Help Clients Through Christmas Season
I’m so busy! There isn’t enough time to do everything! I’m so sad – I miss my loved one(s). I’m overspending! Can you sense your clients’ stress during the Christmas Season through expressed sentiments like these? The reality is that for some clients, Christmastime is...
Gratitude and Christian Life Coaching
It’s that time of year. Your inbox and newsfeeds start filling up with articles about gratitude and thankfulness. But these life-transforming virtues aren’t just for Thanksgiving time. Did you know that when your coaching clients cultivate a heart of gratitude, it...
Coaching People, Not Problems
One of the greatest joys of Christian Life Coaching is the freedom to represent Jesus, His love, and Kingdom principles. An important way we do this is by coaching people rather than problems. So what does it mean to coach people, not problems? After all, aren't...
The Purposeful Pause
As a Christian Life Coach or if you are considering becoming one, you may feel compelled to fill the gap of silent pauses during a coaching session because the quietness feels awkward. Maybe you’ll catch yourself quickly asking another question or reframing the...
Are You Blooming or Wilting?
Christian Life Coaching is all about transformation. Transformation can be defined as “a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance.” Summertime is a season of gardening for many of us. But have you ever neglected your flowers a little too long? Suddenly you...
What’s the Difference between Life Coaching and Mentoring?
Are you trying to decide how God wants you to use your compassionate heart for people? Perhaps you see the impact our world is having on those around you, and you ask the Lord, “How can I help?” You may have heard about life coaching and mentoring and you’re curious...
The Value of a Christian Life Coach
Do you have a heart for people? To see them transformed, free, and living out their purpose? So does Jesus. Perhaps you also sense a calling to be a Life Coach, so you go online and research how to become a Life Coach and discover so many options! You find information...
Putting Love Into Action
Love is one of those words we apply to many different things. “I love that song,” “I love that restaurant,” “I love those shoes,” or “I love my grandma”. Not only do we use it for a lot of different things, but we can also change our minds daily and move on to the...