Oct. 2021

Here is a bit of my story for anyone interested. For anyone who doesn’t know, I am the founder of Hope For The Broken Hearted Ministries. I am a single mom with a son who has multiple special needs. He is twenty-eight, and we have been on our own since he was eleven. He is the joy of my life, and he will always live with me due to his disabilities. 

I have multiple autoimmune diseases, and my health issues have numerous times had me completely bed-bound/house-bound for years at a time. I understand what it is like to live with stressful situations that aren’t likely to improve or change drastically and then try to juggle all of the extra stuff that life throws at you simultaneously. I know many of you live with that same reality.

I am a trained Life Coach with specialties in Stress Management, Health and Wellness, and Hope Coaching. I also am trained as a Nutritional Therapist, and I am a certified specialist in Grief Recovery. When I received my training, I intended to work one-on-one coaching/counseling people, but my ministry went viral before I had the chance to do that. I realized that God had different plans for me. Instead, I have used my training in a general way to help millions of people who have sought hope, help, and encouragement via my social media accounts and website.

Since last year, we all know, the world has seemed to be going from one crisis to another. We’ve experienced a global pandemic, economic uncertainty, political and social turmoil, and many natural disasters. People are also dealing with personal traumas such as losing loved ones, declining health, unemployment, divorce, violent crime, or tragic accidents. For most of us, this is a time of unprecedented loss, stress, and upheaval. I see people are struggling to cope with all they face every day, and I felt the need to share in a more in-depth way with those who wanted extra help and resources to better cope with their stress, grief, and loss.

My plan last year was to start doing stress management workshops, but again, God had different plans. Over the last year, I have lost four family members and two family friends we have known for decades. With those deaths, I have now lost 46 family members and friends over the last eight years. My parents and my brother all caught covid in December. My brother died in December, and I spent the next five months helping care for my parents in addition to my son. My mother has recovered from covid, though her energy has not returned to where it was before she became ill. I consider it a miracle that she is still here and doing as well as she is. My father was already disabled and in deteriorating health before getting covid. He has been on a steady decline since last December and is in very fragile health. I believe the Lord will be calling him home soon. I have other family members in hospice care, and one of my closest friends is fighting for her life with cancer.

Even though I am well trained in stress management and grief recovery, and my training has served me well through the years, I knew I had to get proactive with helping myself deal with the stress I was dealing with before it impacted my health. I know losses will continue for our family due to many in fragile health, and the stress we’ve been experiencing will not diminish anytime soon. I prayed and sought direction, and the Lord brought me to new sources of information and resources. I have spent hundreds of hours attending online courses and seminars this last year, and I have found so much helpful information that has helped my son and me. It’s as though the Lord gave me new pieces to a puzzle, and things just started falling into place. Some of these new revelations have indeed been life-changing for us.

 I realized the Lord allowed me to go through all I have this last year to help others cope with their grief, losses, and stress. I share my experiences to let people know I understand stress, suffering, grief, and loss from first-hand experience. I have great empathy and compassion for all who are dealing with such things. I want to share tangible help, spiritual hope, and encouragement that with God’s help, we can get through life-changing events. I’ve created this membership site and private community to that end. I want to give in-depth knowledge, tools, and resources to those seeking a way to cope with their stress and losses. I pray you will find help, hope, support, healing, and encouragement here.

In his love,

Debbie