“He will cover you with his feathers. He will shelter you with his wings. His faithful promises are your armor and protection”. Psalm 91:4
Tracey Atkinson, MS, LPC Christian Centered Women’s Coach
First of all, WELCOME!! I am excited you are here!
If you are curious about what a Christian Centered Women’s Coach is and how I may help you, let me explain. My name is Tracey Atkinson, and I am a Christian Mental Health Therapist and Christian Centered Women’s Coach. Over the past 20 years, I have worked with many women, just like you, that feel they are in this mucky grey area of “I am a Christian woman AND my life feels messy, my emotions tend to run the show and I feel like I constantly fall short, even when I feel like I am giving it my all”. That sounds EXHAUSTING, DISCOURAGING AND DEFEATING! Silently raise your hand if you fit into this category. If you did raise your hand, I CAN HELP! Just keep reading!
I help Christian women heal emotional wounds that have quietly shaped how they see themselves, their relationships, and even God. You were never meant to live disconnected from your worth, your voice, or your faith. It is the wounds of emotional abandonment that has left you spinning in never ending negative narratives, which distant you from living who God created you to be.
My mission is to guide women, just like you, out of emotional pain and into a confident, Christ-centered woman. Together, we uncover what has been broken, gently restore what has been lost, and anchor your identity in biblical truth—so you can live with clarity, confidence, and spiritual strength.
Healing is not about fixing what’s wrong with you. It’s about remembering who you are in Christ and learning to live from that truth every day.
My Journey to Sacred Healing Was MESSY!
I am about to get very honest right now so grab a cup of coffee or tea, get settled in a comfy seat with a fuzzy blanket and read along as I shared a tiny glimpse of my story. By the way, I am completely okay with being open and honest because I KNOW with 100% certainty, I am not the ONLY woman with a messy walk with God! Praise the Lord!
I was around 5 years old when I woke up to a vision of God at the foot of my bed. There were no words or noise, complete silence. But there was God, at the foot of my bed. His arms were reached out before him. His hair long and brown. He eyes were so beautiful looking at me. He was wearing a white robe. There was a light glow around him. I didn’t last long, but I can remember it like it is happening right now. A calm came over me in that moment and that was it.
A year later my life would completely change forever at the hands of a sexual perpetrator living in my home. A relative that we took in to live with us in our Godly home. Everything I knew that was innocent and loving became blurred very quickly.
Trauma changed my life; it changed my family's life. For six years, I experienced sexual abuse, and I truly felt God abandoned me when I needed him the most. To protect me, to help me, to save me.
A darkness took over my life, my thoughts, my functioning, it was gone. That little girl became trapped within me, longing to be loved, protected, saved. As the years went on, I became more destructive. I burned bridges, pushed people away, continually screamed at God because I thought he had abandoned me. I felt I wasn’t important enough for him to save me. I felt he didn’t love me. I felt like I was fighting the world and myself and it was EXHAUSTING.
My eyes were blind to God. My heart shattered. My ears deaf to people telling me how good God is, how much he loves me. It took me hitting rock bottom and a very, very long history of living an unstable life to stop running and realize he was there the whole time. Even when I couldn’t see him. Even when I prayed with everything I had and didn’t believe he heard me. Even when I ran out of tears crying, he was there, waiting for me to open my heart to him. He is the MOST loving God!
Although this is a very short version of my walk with the Lord, it is the powerful transformation of my life!
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; Do not be discouraged, for the Lord, your God, will be with you wherever you go”. Joshua 1:9
Let’s get down to talking about real life “stuff”. Trauma, emotional abandonment, violence or abuse of any kind, emotional wounds, the scars no one knows about. The negative narratives and the rabbit holes that our minds get lost in. The spinning cycles, the loops that reinforce deeply rooted shame. Maybe your mind sees expectations you never meet, goals just outside of your grip or the judgements that are placed within yourself that take up more space than you’d like to admit. Hold that thought, hold those feelings for a little longer.
Now let’s go to the side of you that is a Christian woman. The side of you that goes to church, sings your favorite songs at church, maybe volunteers when an opportunity presents. The woman that has a daily devotional or two on her coffee table. The woman that prays to God as much as possible. That same woman that does her best to keep it all together. You see other Christian women walking confidently around church. Talking about all the good, wonderful adventures in their lives. You are giving 110%, every ounce, balancing the world on your shoulders, but just under the surface, little by little, you are crumbling, gripping, white knuckling, just to hold on just a little longer. Hold that thought, hold those feelings for a little longer.
What do you think happens when those worlds collide instead of coming together? This woman is doing everything “right”, but continually feels everything she does just isn’t enough, It isn’t working. Her faith is being tested. The ground is shaking. She questions EVERYTHING in those moments that nobody knows about. WHY? Is it the pressure that a Christian woman “should” have it all together? Present a certain way? Put on a fake smile, a mask?
What happens when we know what God’s word says (“Fear not, for I am with you” Isaiah 41:10), but your body is holding onto fear from trauma?
What happens when we lash out in anger because our life is spiraling into a pit of destruction (“quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry” James 1:19), but your emotional abandonment has left you in constant internal chaos?
THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN CALLED TO DO!
I guide Christian woman out of emotional pain due to emotional abandonment and into the confident woman God created them to be. Negative narratives, deep rooted shame, self-hatred woven into destructive thinking patterns and a dysregulated nervous system create a damaging level of low self-confidence and most often, loss of identity. God created ALL of us for more!
I HAVE CREATED AN 8 WEEK CHRISTIAN CENTERED WOMEN’S COACHING PACKAGE CALLED “CHANGE THE CHANNEL TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE” FOR WOMEN JUST LIKE YOU WHO ARE TRYING TO LIVE A FAITH FILLED CHRISTIAN LIFE WHILE ALSO FEELING LIKE THEY ARE BARELY HANGING ONTO THE EDGE. YOU DON’T HAVE TO WAIT ANY LONGER. YOU DON’T HAVE TO KEEP TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT ON YOUR OWN AND THE BEST PART………YOU WON’T BE ALONE ON THIS JOURNEY!
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