Has something brought you to a stop?
We arrive at these moments feeling stuck… or numb…
or restless to “do something.”
Yet beneath the surface, something deeper is speaking—an ending asking to be honored, a beginning not yet ready to step forward.
Most of us were never taught how to slow down and understand what our emotions are trying to say. But everything we need for a fuller, steadier, more grounded life is already in us.
Sometimes we just need someone to help us find it.
Coaching the Crossroads
Hi! My name is Mike Wright.
You are probably familiar with coaching in sports, business, relationships and life. The essence of coaching is having a skilled individual who can guide you to harness what already resides within you. I believe you have everything you need within you but recognize that you’re likely struggling to see it from your present vantage point. Coaching the Crossroads is where my personal story, pastoral heart, theological framework, and formalized training have met. This is my sense of calling and my story has prepared me with skills to guide your story.
My role is to be a guide who helps you identify behaviors and cycles that are confounding your relational, life, vocational and spiritual goals. Understanding these obstacles involve both honoring their goodness - for they once proved necessary and helpful, and honestly naming their inadequacy for the journey ahead. Our sessions together will be a relational walk of story-telling, feedback, connecting moments, honesty, holding life’s tension, laughter and discovering resolution.
I am eager to accompany you on the next important step of your journey. A new chapter begins today.
We are all on a journey home
An ancient story is told of a twin born under the shadow of his brother. From birth his father favored and chose his older brother. Complicit with his mother he stole his father’s favor only to lose the love and safety of home. He fled to his mother’s family where he too was tricked, found himself even more isolated and filled with a longing for home. On his return there was a mysterious encounter, a violent wrestling match at the river Jabbok. This forsaken, middle-aged man was wounded but also blessed in the encounter. Known once as the trickster, he was renamed by his divine adversary, “he who contends with El.” His descendants would be known by this name for the remainder of history, Isra-El.
For me this story has been profoundly descriptive and personal. But no matter one’s faith background, this ancient narrative provides timeless counsel and direction in our modern world. We are shaped by the stories we’ve been told and continue telling. Our journey does not have to be a life sentence trapped in younger, under-developed and inadequate strategies. I can help you discover the journey home characterized by hope, maturity and strength.
