Are you experiencing a faith crisis/journey? Would you like to navigate it with more peace and less pain?
Believe me. I get it.
As a life coach who works with clients in a faith crisis/journey, I see a lot of pain and isolation. I hear words like “disorienting, stuck, confused, terrified, lonely, distressing, shame. It’s all I can think about. I’m afraid this might ruin certain relationships."
People in faith crisis need safe places to discuss and process their journeys. Often, well-meaning loved ones, friends, or leaders don't have the tools to support a person in a faith crisis if they haven't experienced it themselves. Sometimes, in their best attempt to help, they can inadvertently add to the other person's burden.
It hurts when people assume you're lazy, want to sin, or you're following the devil when, actually, you're on a faith journey based on you being a person of integrity, morality, and love.
People need tools, paradigms, and support to find their footing, expand their thinking, to find hope and peace that things can get better.
If you relate, I've designed a coaching program with you in mind.
Navigating an LDS Faith Journey can help you navigate your journey with more peace and less pain
This program is designed to be a community of safety and support with practical tools, skills, and coaching to help you navigate your faith journey in healthy ways and move through the stages of faith with more hope and peace.
What You Get
Each month you get four virtual sessions that will include:
• Workshops on topics relevant to a faith journey, like navigating difficult conversations with loved ones or practical ways to grow your trust in God's voice and your intuition
• Group discussions with a wonderful community of others in a faith crisis/journey, so you feel less alone and more supported and empowered
• Coaching, skills, and tools from a faith-based perspective to help navigate thinking, emotions, relationships, triggers and trauma responses, and more
• Affirmations and journal prompts to help you keep making progress between sessions
In addition to the live sessions, you have access to:
• Access to recordings so you can participate in ways that work for your schedule
• Faith Crisis First Aid Kit. Short videos along with several helpful tools and resources for those who might be new to a faith crisis or in an intense season and could use quick help
• Lists of helpful resources recommended by Becky, like podcasts, books, articles, and more. Also, resource lists recommended by people in the membership community
•Private Facebook community with others navigating a faith journey
What difference would it make to have support, coaching, skills and tools so you can navigate your journey with more peace, hope, and empowerment?
Understanding the stages of faith development (it’s growth, not backsliding)
Understanding the stages of grieving (including denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance)
Common reasons people experience faith crisis vs reasons others might assume
The LDS-LGBTQ intersection
Understanding the psychology of why a faith crisis can be so painful
How to navigate overwhelming emotions that are common in faith journeys
Moving from external to internal authority
Helpful resources like podcasts, books, music
Tips for finding community and belonging
Navigating triggers
Navigating mental health and self-care during a faith journey
Help grow your relationship with Heavenly Parents and the Savior
Additional ways to connect with God
Seeking and receiving personal revelation
Self-differentiation
Developing a more flexible, resilient faith that is less black-and-white
Self-compassion
Learning to trust your inner compass
Other options instead of all-or-nothing thinking
Spiritual languages and how they can change as you develop
Empathy vs toxic positivity
Protecting yourself from others' negative emotions rather than sponging them
Navigating relationships and conversations with loved ones in a different stage of faith than you
Questions and doubt as a doorway to growth
Find more peace, hope, and solid ground in your personal faith journey.
Currently we meet on Saturday mornings at 8 am MT.
Membership is month-to-month. You have access to recordings, courses, resources, and private Facebook community as long as you're a member. You can cancel at anytime.
My faith journey started when my son came out as gay. No matter where your faith crisis/journey started, the experience can be scary, destabilizing, isolating, and it can monopolize your mind day and night.
Faith journeys can include a sense of destabilization, a roller coaster of emotions, a grieving process, a crisis of faith and belonging and trust, and even trauma. After my son came out as gay and I experienced a faith crisis, I remember trying to describe the painful experience with phrases like, "My foundation that has always felt so firm now feels wobbly and crumbling."
Do any of these sound familiar? If so, you're not alone, you're not crazy, you're not broken, and you're not evil. You're going through a normal, healthy, developmental process of moving through the stages of faith. Understanding these stages can bring peace and purpose, and can help you see the truth of your own psychological and faith development when others may feel fear, judgment, or guilt about your journey.
Some people say you must choose between leaving the church and returning to your former black-and-white stage of faith that doesn't fit you anymore. Faith development experts say otherwise. Many are finding ways to stay in a community you love and honor your personal integrity and stage of faith as well. If that's your desire, I'm here to support you with tools, coaching, support, community, and peace and hope that it can get better.
Even if you're experiencing what faith development experts call a "dark night of the soul," I'm here to tell you, you're actually growing and progressing, and there is sunshine ahead.
Hear from clients who have worked with Becky through a faith crisis / journey
For me, few things have been more terrifying and painful as a faith crisis. I was always taught that having such doubts meant that I was doing something wrong.
Working with Becky as a Life Coach has been SO helpful to me. She has taught me many valuable tools that I used (and continue to use) to help me work through the hard emotions of my faith crisis
(fear, anger, shame, grief, etc.).
Becky is respectful of everyone's journey and walks with you, wherever yours may lead! I am so grateful for Becky and her willingness to share what she has learned on her own faith journey in order to bless and strengthen others who are trying to do the same.
Anonymous
Client
I met Becky Edwards during one of the hardest points of my life. A year earlier, my daughter confided that she was gay, and I really started to struggle with what that meant for her and our family as members of The Church.
It brought up so many other questions about other topics, fears, and concerns and it sent me into a spiral. I felt so disoriented, and truly in crisis. I started questioning everything I believed, and my entire faith system was crumbling from underneath me. What made it harder is that my husband and I were not on the same page, and it was affecting not only my faith, but my marriage and family life as well.
I had the opportunity to sign up and participate in one of Becky‘s coaching programs. The tools that she taught me, and the discussions and peace that I felt truly helped me in navigating a really difficult time. I started feeling like there was light at the end of the tunnel, and my faith shifted and began to grow again.
I was able to take control and learn to receive personal revelation and that has changed my outlook and given me hope again. I can’t say enough about what a blessing it has been in my life. If you are struggling with a faith crisis, or feeling disoriented and just need some help getting grounded again, there is help out there. It is a hard journey, but one that I’m grateful I found Becky to help me navigate.
Shannon Bludworth
I came out as a same-sex attracted woman at age 47 in the midst of a pandemic with the world shut down and very few resources available. I felt very isolated. An acquaintance of mine connected me with Becky. On multiple occasions, she met with me in person, on the phone and in group settings and supported me as I shared this new journey and all of its ups and downs.
Drawing on her faith-based mentoring techniques she guided me through some heartbreaking rejection and connected me with the LGBTQ+ community that she had been gathering around her.
Her infectious smile, amazing ability to love others and unassuming, gentle nature has been a blessing in my life and she has helped me find meaning and belonging during a time when I felt like I was floundering and alone.
Melissa
Receive coaching, tools, and resources surrounded by a supportive community. Find more peace, find your footing, and find hope that things can get better.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q - Who is this program designed for?
A - This program is for LDS people who are experiencing a faith crisis/journey who either 1) currently want to stay in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or 2) those who are still deciding if they feel right about staying or not.
Q - What if I have never experienced a faith crisis, but I want to better understand and support my loved ones who are going through that? Is this program a good fit for me?
A - I love your loving heart - empathy is a Jesus quality, for sure. I plan eventually to create some training for loved ones who want to support those experiencing a faith crisis. But for now, to help those going through one now to feel safe and to have their confidentiality respected, the program is specifically for those experiencing a faith crisis/journey and who currently want to stay in the church.
Q - Are you a therapist?
A - I am not a therapist. I am a life coach. I have wonderful friends and clients who are therapists and when there is significant trauma or other needs, I refer clients to therapists. I am a coach who has worked with many people, including those in faith crises. I'm focusing this program on a balance of a community with empathy and safety AND paradigms, skills, exercises, and tools to empower people to navigate their faith journey in ways that are healthy for them and at their own pace.
Q - I would like support and compassion without judgment or an agenda. I already feel judged and pushed by people who want me to leave the church or who think I'm following the devil. Will this program feel safe and free of judgment?
A - Yes, that is definitely my goal. I strongly value honoring each person's path and what's healthy for them, including their own pace. I am not here to give you the answers or push you one way or the other. My gay son left the church for his mental health and it was the best decision for him. I'm choosing to stay. I'm here to give you support and offer healthy ways to navigate your own faith journey.
Q - Is your coaching focused only on thought work? I feel triggered when people tell me to "just choose to believe" something.
A - I can relate. I've seen thought work unintentionally add wounding and gaslighting to people in a faith crisis. I use thought work as ONE of many tools, skills, and techniques. I also use somatic tools for regulating a trauma response when the nervous system gets triggered, writing tools, tools to process and release heavy emotions, communication techniques, exercises to help you tap into and learn to trust God's voice and your own intuition, and more.
Q - I'm not sure how I feel about paying money for a program related to spirituality.
A - That's understandable. In the LDS church, we're raised with a strong work ethic and we highly value giving service to our neighbors for free. I value that too. I also pay people for their training, time, and expertise in areas that I find valuable, like an accountant, a therapist, or a health coach. As a life coach, I bring value to those looking for support in navigating an LDS faith crisis.
Q - What if I can't attend live?
A - No worries. Trainings and coach calls are held on Zoom and members will have access to the recordings (and the courses, resources, and private Facebook community) as long as they're in the program.
Q - What if I have questions about the program to see if it's a good fit for me?
A - You can email your questions to becky@beckyedwardscoaching.com
Q - How long is the program commitment?
A - The program membership is month-to-month. You have access to recordings, courses, resources, and the private Facebook community as long as you're in the membership. And you can cancel at anytime.
