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Hope everyone is doing well. Here is Part III of my catch up update. Just a heads up, I will be using the word certification a lot! After finally having a full client base with LA Fitness, I was still not quite ready to resume obtaining my life coach certification with CCI (Christian Coach Institute). […]

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone has been doing well. Here is Part II of my Catch Up Update: Most of the income that I was making came from Uber. I had a few clients at the Santa-Ana MacArthur/Bristol LA Fitness but it wasn’t much. It has been over two and a half years since […]

Hello everyone, it has been a very long time since I have posted anything! I will be catching you guys up on what has been going on since my previous post. I spent the first couple of months of 2018 working on my course to become a Certified Professional Life Coach. The course was very […]

“Why are you such a loser?”   How much do those harsh words from my mother affect me now? To be honest, it still hurts when I think back to that moment; however, I am not crippled by that pain anymore.   We build our characters from many materials, but three main ways of forming […]

Part VII

Is it okay to be mad at God? Is it wrong? Is it sinful? What am I supposed to do if I am pissed off at Him? These were the questions I was wrestling with for the month of April. After much pondering and many long talks with Don and my close friends, I finally […]

Part VI

July 2015 was my last month with Epic Movement; I would receive my final paycheck on the 1st of August. My two main objectives now were to work through counseling and to study for the Personal Training Certification Test. My counselor recommended that I go on two men’s retreats that he himself had participated in […]

Moving forward, I knew I had to get three things done. The first and most urgent thing I had to do was to figure out what I was going to do for work after my internship officially ended. Around this time, I spotted a flier at a 24 Hour Fitness that advertised a personal training […]

The more time I spent with Don, the more pleased I was that I had chosen him as my counselor. We simply clicked. My interactions with him filled me with laughter, insight, and a strong sense that I was fully known and cared for. As I recounted numerous painful experiences from my childhood, I learned […]

  In February, at an Epic Movement Intern Conference, I got a chance to chat with Tom, one of the ministry’s higher-ups. It was clear to me that Tom was a wise and compassionate man; he had even once mentored my boss Alfred. I asked Tom about his thoughts on counseling and shared my difficulties […]

Toward the end of my first year with Epic Movement, I was very sad to learn that not all of my teammates would be staying in Southern California for the following year. Some of them would move to Northern California, while others would leave Irvine for East Asia. As a result, I knew that there […]