let everything happen to you
January 4, 2026
“We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at[a] the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.”
I’m a story + soul companion. Over the years, I’ve spent time with many people who are thoughtful, faithful, and deeply committed—everyday people like you—who are tired, carrying grief, or holding wounds that have gone unnamed for a long time. Sitting with them has shaped the way I understand both suffering and grace. I’ve learned how much our histories matter, how profoundly our bodies and relationships are shaped by what we’ve lived through, and how patient Christ is with us as He meets us in the story.
My approach is Christ-centered, trauma-informed, and narrative-focused., but it is mostly relational. I care about earning trust, listening well, noticing what is happening beneath the surface, and resisting the urge to rush toward answers or resolution. I believe Scripture gives us language not only for hope and restoration, but also for confusion, sorrow, waiting, and lament. “We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses” (Hebrews 4:15), and that truth continues to orient the way I show up with others.
In the context of relationship, The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit created in their image (Genesis 1:27). We bear His beauty, goodness, glory, and truth. This is the very core of who we are—before sin, sorrow, and suffering laid its mark on us, before the stories we’ve grown up in told us otherwise.
My desire is to help you get back to this place, to live in and from this truest identity—that you are a beloved child of God who bears His image.
We see in the Scriptures, time and time again, that our Father is a patient one. He is provoked to anger, yes, but first He is compassionate and merciful, abounding in steadfast love (Exodus 34:6). It is not a surprise to Him that we move slowly from one degree of glory to another (2 Cor 3:18).
Our sanctification, our returning back to the truest sense of who we are (the Imago Dei) and who we are to become (like Christ), is progressive. Ours is a journey that goes through stages, and stages within each stage.
Why is this worth noting? This journey is one you’ve been on for quite some time. You may have expected to arrive somewhere by now. Yet here you are. Your struggle, your suffering, is a part of your process of becoming.
Give yourself the benefit of the same patience God offers you.
Before time (as we know it), a story was already unfolding. God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—unified in their love—were a living love story. Beauty, goodness, and truth in harmonious relationship. Wholeness and flourishing. Compassion, gentleness, justice and love to the fullest extent. Shalom. And though it is wholly mystery to me, we have been born into this incredible, infinite story.
Stories have enveloped and enfolded us. Micro stories of our parents and the generations before them, the stories that have unraveled throughout our lived lives, the stories others have told us and the stories we’ve told and continue to tell ourselves; stories that are sacred and profane. We are storied beings—ensouled, embodied, enstoried.
Story is the means and relationship is the context by which our lived truth and reality are revealed. When others bear witness to our stories of both suffering and celebration, we come to realize that not only does God see us, hear us, and know us deeply—but He comes for us, too.
When we engage this work in the context of 1:1 companionship or group, we are given space to be unsparingly honest, exposing parts of ourselves that have longed to be seen, heard, and known—our stories become witnessed by another. We were made for this. Being made in the image of God, our sense of dignity and worth is repaired in the context of relational community that images God’s love back to us.
By engaging our stories through the lens of grace and redemption, storywork becomes a transformative journey of spiritual wholeness where we become increasingly like Christ. It renews our strength and draws us into deeper connection with God and with those around us. Our relational wounds begin to heal.
“We are created for the purpose of loving relational connections with God and other people, and we are designed such that we grow and develop through relational connections.”
“One life on this earth is all we get…and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.”
inspiring stories
When I first came to Christie for counselling, I had just gotten out of a decade long abusive relationship. I was broken and felt completely worthless. Christie, through an amazing display of kindness, compassion, and patience, picked up those broken pieces and made me whole again. With the aid of Scripture, Christie reminded me of who I am in Christ and that I am His beautiful creation. She showed me that I am worthy in His eyes. I feel joyful again and every area of my life has experienced restoration. I can trust again and have meaningful relationships. I am a precious child of God and, for the first time in years, I actually believe this.
Clear, biblical, and not condemning counsel. She did a good job of drawing me out, forcing me to slow down, and in sticky issues helping me to see the heart of Christ. Her way of asking clarifying questions has been very helpful. She also was great at providing me with conceptions of what I was struggling with, without using labels.
I kept wondering how she could help me out of what was going on in my mind each week, to find that there was an answer and I didn’t need to remain stuck.
"Knowing the impact of our stories and finding God’s redemptive work within them is vital for emotional, relational, and spiritual health." — Dan Allender • "Faith is about trust, which is ultimately about attachment. Trust is more than a thought; it's something that we do with our bodies as we are in relationship with others." — Curt Thompson, MD
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