by Amy Jung | Jun 24, 2022 | Anger, Coaching Your Friends, Coaching Your Kids, Coaching Your Spouse, Coaching Yourself, Uncategorized |
“More than thirty-five years of counseling have led me to the statistical conclusion: approximately one out of one people struggle with anger.”Robert D. Jones, Calming Your Heart, 31-Day Devotionals for Life I know we all struggle with our responses to feelings of...
by Amy Jung | May 28, 2022 | Coaching Your Friends, Coaching Your Kids, Coaching Your Spouse, Coaching Yourself, Thinking, Uncategorized |
I didn’t sleep a wink the night before our class IV/V adventure down the Chattooga River. It was a ride I personally did not sign up for. A part of the vacation that my husband thought would be a great family experience. I was thankful for the mandatory safety...
by Amy Jung | May 20, 2022 | Coaching Your Friends, Coaching Your Kids, Coaching Your Spouse, Coaching Yourself, Thinking, Uncategorized |
I used to live just one street over from the bluffs that rise up over the Missouri River. I’m familiar with its power. My kids and I loved to walk down to our historic town’s riverfront to stand at the banks and throw rocks and sticks into it. Sticks were...
by Amy Jung | May 12, 2022 | Coaching Your Friends, Coaching Your Kids, Coaching Your Spouse, Coaching Yourself, Fear, Uncategorized |
I’m always amazed at the lack of fear my kids have. They walk over logs high over creeks, my daughter rides horses, and my son pitches in baseball games. These things can stir up fears in me. Fear can be good. It can serve as an alarm bell that something is...
by Amy Jung | Apr 26, 2022 | Coaching Your Friends, Coaching Your Kids, Coaching Your Spouse, Coaching Yourself, Encouragement, Grace, Hope, Ministry and Serving, Uncategorized |
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.”proverbs 18:21 I remember one of the most hopeless seasons in my life. I felt despair at the thought of living through another day of...
by Amy Jung | Apr 16, 2022 | Coaching Yourself, Jesus, Savior, Uncategorized |
It’s Silent Saturday. The day before we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection. I’m not asking a question as I normally do in this post, but I’m also not being silent today. I sit down at my desk to write and the legs of a chair that’s been headed...
by Amy Jung | Feb 26, 2022 | Coaching Yourself, Encouragement, Mothering Encouragement, Parenting, Renewing the Mind, Spiritual Growth, Thinking, Uncategorized |
Is it wrong for me to think I can reflect God? Humans aren’t perfectly holy, all-present, or all-knowing. Don’t worry! I don’t propose that we can reflect those kinds of attributes, but if we are in Christ we are enabled and called by God to image...
by Amy Jung | Dec 10, 2021 | Coaching Yourself, Jesus, Uncategorized |
Exasperated with feeling weak and unsuccessful, I grumbled under my breath about the project I was working on. This project had called me to a vulnerable place. I had put myself “out there” and had utilized all my creative energy. I was spiritually,...
by Amy Jung | Nov 13, 2021 | Coaching Yourself, Grace, Uncategorized |
I felt the tug of the strong, Outer Banks current on us and I knew we were in trouble. My daughter and I had been enjoying the rough surf with our new boogie boards on our first full day at the beach. I failed to notice the lone, yellow, caution flag hidden between...
by Amy Jung | Oct 28, 2021 | Coaching Yourself, Grace, Spiritual Growth, Uncategorized |
Have you ever heard this heart-wrenching story? Polish Priest, Maximilian Kolbe, was arrested by the Gestapo for hiding Jews and Polish refugees from the Nazis during World War II. During his time at Auschwitz concentration camp, ten men were rounded up to be starved...
