I was four years old, half dressed and barefoot, wandering through the darkness dangerously close to a highway, with no idea how I got there. That was me. As a child, I experienced night terrors and sleepwalking episodes, along with repeated hospital stays because of epilepsy. When I did not feel safe or settled, my brain and body were powerful and protective, responding the only way they knew how. What I could not understand then was that God’s protection was already over my life. It took me nearly fifty years to recognize it. As I did, I discovered that my fitness ministry was my response to God’s calling. Over time, I began to see how closely God’s prompting and my response were connected.
My fitness ministry is my response to God’s calling.
A DISCIPLE OF DISCIPLINE
For most of my life, I understood discipline. I knew how to keep going, keep achieving, work on myself, and push through difficult circumstances. From the outside, that looked like strength. I became skilled at functioning, leading, teaching, training, and encouraging others. Beneath that capable exterior, however, was a woman still trying to outrun old patterns that had formed long before she had words for them.
Religion: A particular variety of belief, organized into a system of doctrine and practice.
I was not raised with a Christian foundation. The spirituality around me was vague and self directed, often centered on personal energy, manifestation, inner power, and the belief that peace could be created through personal effort. It became my religion. At the time, I did not understand what was missing. I only knew that I was searching for something solid enough to hold me.
TRAINING OTHERS IN MY FORM OF RELIGION
As an adult, I became a life coach and personal trainer. I studied behavior, wellness, motivation, mindset, movement, and personal development. I helped people set goals, change habits, strengthen their bodies, and think differently about their lives. Many of those tools were useful, but I eventually realized that tools are not the same as truth. I had strategies, but I did not have an anchor.
Yes, I knew how to help people move forward, but I did not understand what it meant to be deeply rooted. I knew how to teach mindset, but I did not yet understand the transformation that occurs when the mind is renewed through the truth of God’s Word. I could help people create change, but I had not yet learned that lasting restoration requires more than effort. It requires surrender.
KIND OF BEAUTIFUL BUT DEFINITELY BROKEN
My life looked beautiful from the outside, but old survival patterns continued operating beneath the surface. I had a family, a home, meaningful work, and what many people would have considered a storybook life. Still, unresolved pain does not disappear simply because life looks good on paper. Eventually, what I had spent years trying to outrun caught up with me. I broke down, made destructive choices, and watched parts of my life fall apart. What felt like an ending became the beginning of my breakthrough.
When I came to faith in 2021, it was neither casual nor convenient. God interrupted my life in a way I could not explain away. My spirit awakened and I said yes to God. But my mind still carried years of old wiring. I loved God, yet I was still learning how to live from truth rather than survival, striving, fear, and self reliance.
MORE THAN AN EVOLUTION – A TRANSFORMATION!
Over time, God began to show me that some of the thoughts I had accepted as my identity were not truly who I was. They were learned responses, mental ruts, and old ways of protecting myself. They were familiar, but familiar does not always mean faithful.
God revealed these patterns gradually, through conviction, Scripture, prayer, and quiet moments when I sensed Him telling me to pay attention and look more closely at what was happening beneath the surface. Looking back, I can see the same pattern in my ministry: God’s prompting and my response unfolded over time, not all at once.
Those promptings became the foundation for Salt & Light: Rewired Mind, Restored Life and the framework I now teach through four words:
- REVEAL - We allow God to reveal what is really happening within us.
- RESET - We reset what has become misaligned.
- RENEW - We renew our minds with truth.
- RESTORE - Then we begin the lifelong work of living restored in body, mind, and spirit.
MORE THAN A CAREER – A MINISTRY!!
No, I didn't originally set out to begin a faith and fitness ministry. It started with one act of obedience. After decades in fitness and wellness, I sensed God inviting me to bring together the things He had already placed in my hands: faith, movement, worship, teaching, encouragement, nervous system awareness, and practical mind renewal. That was God’s prompting, and my response was simply to take the next step. I began to wonder whether a workout could become worship and whether movement could become a meaningful form of ministry.
Worship Workout grew from that prompting. It is not simply exercise with Christian music playing in the background. It is not centered on appearance, performance, or pursuing an external standard of health. It creates space for women to reconnect with God, their bodies, their breath, their minds, and one another. We move, but we also listen to God’s Spirit. We strengthen our bodies while learning to surrender. We breathe deeply while renewing our minds with truth.
FITNESS MINISTRY IS ABOUT GOD WORKING IN OUR LIVES
What began as one small yes has grown into gatherings, teaching, prayer, community, and a deeper calling to help women stop living divided lives. I continue to meet women from different generations and seasons who carry the same ache. They love God, but they are tired. They are faithful, but overwhelmed. They are functioning, but not always free. I recognize that woman because I have been her.
This ministry is not built on having everything figured out. It is built on allowing God to use what He has redeemed. His prompting rarely arrives at a convenient time, and obedience often requires us to move before we can see the entire path. One thing I have learned about God’s prompting and our response is that we are not always given the whole plan before the next yes. Still, one yes can lead to another. One act of obedience can become a ministry. One redeemed story can become a pathway that helps another woman find freedom.
Worship Workout has become faith in motion. It is a place where women worship, move, breathe, reset, and remember who they are in Christ. The same God who protected a frightened child wandering near a highway is the God who now uses her story to help other women find their way home.
QUESTIONS FOR PERSONAL REFLECTION OR GROUP DISCUSSION
- Where have you sensed God prompting you lately, and how have you responded?
- Is there an old pattern or way of thinking God may be asking you to surrender?
- What has God already placed in your hands that He may want to use?
- re you waiting for the whole plan before taking the next step in obedience?
