Shifting Gears

Hello all,

Let this post redirect you to my new sites as follows:

The www.Christian-Life-Coaching.org Homepage
This is the homepage of my website...

The Video Blog (updated Tuesdays and Fridays)
This is also on my website... I post a short video twice a week, using lots of scripture to help counter the New Age 'wisdom of man' that is permeating the self-help arena these days.

James Thomas Klotzle's Facebook account
This is a social networking site that allows me to keep in touch with people from all over.

JamesTcoaching on Twitter
This site allows me to give regular updates about my work to everyone who is interested.

Christian-Life-Coaching on Blogger
This site is identical to the Video Blog page above, but it is hosted by Blogger to accommodate the many people who use Google's Blogger service.

Christian-Life-Coaching's Tangle (Christian Video) Channel
I post my videos on this Christian video hosting website, and have gotten good reception from the community so far.

JamesTcoaching's Youtube Channel
I post my videos on Youtube as well, although this is a very secular site that, overall, is hostile to Christianity... I have gotten poor to fair reception from this online community, except for some friends who keep up with what I'm doing.


Feel free to leave comments and encouragements below...

Please contact me directly with any questions or concerns:

christian.life.coaching@gmail.com


My blogging over the past 5 months has been understandably (I hope) erratic. However, I have not "dropped off the face of the earth!"

No, I've been enjoying a November-through-March winter wonderland here in St. Paul, Minnesota! Also, I've been working on my Master's degree in counseling psychology and revving up my private coaching practice.

Coaching is different from counseling, because coaches work with healthy people who want to change something in their life... while the counselors work is healing broken people. I am a certified coach with a special interest in stress management because of my experiences with traumatic and chronic stress in emergency services (firefighting and emergency medicine).

My practice is developing nicely; my mentors say that I'm ahead of schedule and have an excellent set of goals lined up for the future. Daily, however, I am reminded of my inadequacy and dependence on God's wisdom... He has proven Himself faithful to provide direction and the words to speak time and again as I seek to live out this calling on my life.

Here are my personal vision and mission statements:

Vision Statement:
I envision a vibrant counseling and coaching ministry that glorifies God and inspires and equips His children to lead lives of victory, joy and fulfillment.


Mission Statement:
To build a vibrant counseling and coaching ministry that glorifies God and nurtures godly households by equipping and inspiring Christian family leaders to lives of victory, joy and fulfillment through counseling, coaching, speaking and writing.


I hope that you can see my heart and God's direction in this endeavor. He has opened the way to use the spiritual gifts that He has given me, and has touched many lives already in the process. I have communicated with fellow Christians from South Africa to Canada to the United Kingdom... many who are on this journey with us, seeking greater victory, joy and fulfillment.


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Listen up, Church...

Here is our calling...

I'm not saying we do it very well...

But hear, Church, what we're called to be.



Are we doing our job?


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Lend a helping paw..

There are some videos floating around of an accident where a pedestrian gets struck by a car, and no one goes to her rescue... I won't include that video in this post for obvious reasons.

But I will include this video...




hm...

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Interesting thoughts on language...

This is an excerpt from an article that I found while researching attachment styles in adult relationships... this does not have much to do with attachment at face value, but I thought it was an interesting perspective on language!

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"We stand to gain a lot from the endeavour to communicate across cultures, although no doubt much will be lost in the process; and some may have strong feelings about the tyranny of having to communicate in an alien language. For language, as well as being a vehicle for communication, is also power. The author and psychoanalyst Eva Hoffman, who left her native Poland to complete her education in Canada and the USA, and who now practises as a psychoanalyst in London, writes about the relationship between language and identity in her autobiography Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language:

Linguistic dispossession is a sufficient motive for violence, for it is close to the dispossession of oneself. Blind rage, helpless rage is a rage that has no words...and if one is perpetually without words, if one exists in the entropy of inarticulateness, that condition itself is bound to be an enraging frustration. In my New York apartment, I listen almost nightly to fights that erupt like brushfire on the street below-and in their escalating fury of repetitious phrases I hear not the pleasures of macho toughness but an infuriated beating against wordlessness, against the incapacity to make oneself understood...If all therapy is speaking therapy-a talking cure-then perhaps all neurosis is a speech disease. (Hoffman, 1991, p. 124)"

Gender, attachment and communication in marriage Christopher Clulow. Sexual and Marital Therapy. Abingdon: Nov 1998. Vol. 13, Iss. 4; pg. 449, 12 pgs

Hm...

anyhow..

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Saving the World

...one diabetic patient at a time....

I must take this opportunity to brag up my wife a bit... one of the medical research studies in which she played a crucial role hit the newspapers today under this headline:

HealthPartners utilizes pharmacists in an effort to manage care for those with diabetes
Study finds counseling cuts costs, improves health for diabetics

"HealthPartners is trying a new approach with an old standby in medicine: the local pharmacist.

After providing diabetics with routine counseling by pharmacists, the Bloomington, MN - based health provider found patients became healthier and needed fewer trips to the hospital.

The organization linked 300 members with specially trained pharmacists who guided them on daily medication habits and changed their doses or brands if necessary. After six months of this "medication therapy management," the diabetics missed fewer drug doses; spent less time in hospitals; and improved their blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol."

...for the full text of this article, Click Here

Yay for medication therapy management!



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Just a little update..

Life is good in St. Paul.

Classes are fascinating, clients are challenging but energizing, the weather is full of little surprises for a California boy.

In developmental psychology class this morning, we were watching videos of infants and toddlers interacting with their mothers/primary caregivers... also with strangers and in new situations. Amazing to see the developmental stages as described by different researchers so clearly borne out in real time before us.

Keeping my pulse on the economy through NPR and the WSJ makes me glad to be in school and not looking for an entry-level human services job right now. Perhaps our brave new national leader will open up more opportunity for expansion of public care in these fields... the ranks of homeless in need of mental health interventions are daunting when viewed through our current paradigm of healthcare, government roles/responsibilities/regulations etc.

Why do homeless people live in the Twin Cities in the dead of winter? They should all move to Santa Monica, Venice and Long Beach, CA, where the sand and sun call year-round.

Every once in a while I get the urge to adjust a blind... there are some broken ones at school that a few minutes of fiddling with a leatherman multi-tool would set in order pretty easily.

I was standing in a doctor's office the other day, and a mini-blind wand was lying on the sill... a common problem with this one manufacturer's model... a quick fix with no tools.... But I resisted the urge.

Hopefully, the local window-coverings company will get a paid service call out of that 'broken' blind... I don't want to help them out of any business with the economy in such dire straights :)

I hope everyone who randomly checks this blog is doing well...

Drop me a line sometime.. I enjoy getting phone calls (and messages when I can't answer)... and emails from my far-flung-faithful readers are always nice too :)

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Expressing affection...

Need a fresh way to communicate those three little words?

try this...



:)

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