Where It All Began ~Tiphanie W. | March 2024
As I look back over my life, I can see the evidence of each year’s growth in the midst of that year’s challenges. I often say, 2020 was a very tough year for a lot of people, but it wasn’t for me! The isolation that the pandemic forced us into, forced me into a position of redefinition through recognizing and accepting what God has called me to do in life. This was a time where I discovered the true power of forgiveness and how forgiveness is so freeing. I also discovered my purpose - my God given talent in life. I always knew it existed but I simply chalked my ability to help people and provide a safe space for people to truly open up while talking to me as I compassionately listen - as merely a positive personality trait. The moment that it hit me that I was carrying a gift was Sunday, March 8, 2020. God spoke to me not during church, but literally while sitting at my grandmother’s kitchen table having lunch after church. He told me that it was time for me to do more! And He had the nerve to leave it at that lol. But, I knew exactly what He was referring to. For those of you who don’t know me too well, I am a processor. I hear things and I feel things…..but I tend to sit with what has been revealed to me for a little bit while I process it before I act on or respond. In this case, I wrote about what I knew He was telling me it was time to do and a month later I was enrolled in coursework to make it official. I knew it was time to become a life coach and expand what I have within me to reach more people.
With heavy emphasis on every “it”, here’s what I wrote: “When it doesn’t fit in a box, when you can’t “not” do it, unofficially spent life training for it, when it doesn’t go away, when you would even do it unpaid, because it is a driving force in your life, it is terrifying at first, but you find yourself doing it whenever the opportunity presents itself, your sensitivity, awareness and intuition is heightened around it, only then because of it, your life has become purpose-driven and centered around goals, growth and contribution! Ladies, I am here to tell you this (it) that I speak of is your calling! It is a process, but learn to embrace it! Share your gift with the world because people need (it).”
Now here I am, approaching 4 years in as a life|health|wellness coach and I cannot even begin to explain how amazing this has been! Following an event just this past Saturday, I really reflected on the move of God. I shared on my socials that I knew I would more than likely cry on my commute back into town from the event. I said the way God just keeps placing me in the right places at the right time to pour into people! My tears are purely of joy in gratitude. I continually pray that God keeps me different and that He uses me as a vessel. There’s a few things I know and a few things I’ve had to learn. God will always get the glory in every situation and that He works all things out for the good. That means even getting a last minute invitation and feeling burdened by having to accommodate things into my schedule, He can and He will make it worth my wild for showing up and using my voice and my platform and the present moment to not only help or education the people, but to also remind the people of His goodness. In those moments, He gets the glory. I’ve learned that no matter how many coaches there are in the world, no one has my assignment. My anointing is mine and He has appointed me for such a time as this. Literally everything has changed in my life since I started showing up as the “!” instead of the “?”. The biggest take away I can give anyone is to know who you are and to know Whose you are.
I’ll admit, although God was heavily centered in my life when I announced and launched life coaching in the summer of 2020, now, things are so different. Everything, business wise is so much better because when I relaunched in the summer of 2023, I did it with God as my business partner. He leads and I follow and the blessings for myself and those connected to me just seem to flow.
