For those who have followed me here since 2017, you’ve watched my journey as I’ve endeavored to follow God’s call to let JOY loose around me and build a joyful life.
It started with this blog, when all I had was that phrase and a ton of questions about how someone who felt so joyless could ever let joy loose.
So I studied and prayed and wrote, over and over again, as the Lord ministered to my own soul.
Some things already made sense to me
I could see how my church ministry let joy loose. That made sense. And in a growing way, my blog made sense too. I read your comments, and had lots of behind-the-scenes conversations with readers about how my words were helping them build a joyful life. I was so thankful.
And when I began to get my own physical and emotional wellness on track in 2018, I knew I wanted to widen my perspective in order to help women with their physical and emotional wellness too, in addition to their spiritual wellness. After all, we are holistic beings. When one aspect of our wellness suffers, so do the rest. All contribute together to a joyful life.
Wellness with Young Living
So you watched me launch my Brand Partner business with Young Living, however clumsily. But the joy that grew in my own life as I was privy to hundreds of women and families getting healthier by making simple and intentional shifts to plant-based products truly delighted my soul.
And when I began to mentor other women to build their businesses with Young Living, and to see how encouraged they were to be able to provide income for their families in a season of economic uncertainty, I exploded with purpose myself. Not only were these women healthier in their bodies, their minds, and their spirits, but now they had begun to find fulfillment in their own purpose too. Joyful life was spreading.
Faith-based Life Coach for Women
In 2020, I accepted the Lord’s prompting to increase my influence by training to be certified as a Life Coach.
This began for me during a season of difficulty in my own family, as we faced the pandemic and watched my sweet mother deteriorate and then pass away from cancer. She had left a beautiful legacy. And I wanted to do the same.
Joy was my lifeline. And the network I’d been building over the years literally held me together at points.
The coaching certification gave me training and greater confidence to be able to come alongside other women facing uncertainty, unhealthy habits, chaos and overwhelm, and big decisions. They needed a champion and an advocate to help them think with clarity, learn to say “no”, and get the courage to say “yes” as we unlocked their unique radiance and purpose in this world.
I could not do it any other way than to be a faith-based Life Coach for women. Nothing else made sense with my understanding of God’s call to a joyful life.
It’s all one thing: Joy
It’s clear to me how God has brought all of these paths of mine under one umbrella, JOY.
Writing
Ministry
Business with Young Living
Life Coaching
I do it all with incredible gratitude to God for the way He called me and rescued me for joy.
And so ElizabethRhyno.com is born to be that umbrella, where you’ll especially find me writing and steering you toward Life Coaching so that your joyful life can explode too.
May I please continue to help you build a joyful life?
If I’ve helped and encouraged you with my writing or my worship leading, then I pray you’ll also trust me to help you with Young Living and with Life Coaching.
It’s all one thing to me. It’s ALL about your joy.
I live to let joy loose in the women around me by helping them discover holistic wellness, find their unique purpose, and redesign their lives to live it out.
Why is it that some people seem so focused and purposeful, and that I feel so chaotic and overwhelmed? If I hire a life coach, how would it help me live with greater purpose?
I used to think that to hire a Life Coach was a dumb idea. Why in the world would I spend money to get someone to tell me how to do my life? “I am decent at living – don’t really need help with that, thank you very much.” Ha!
Well, hindsight is 20/20, isn’t it?
At some point along the way, sitting in the middle of a fog of depression, lack of motivation and clarity, I realized I probably could have used help sooner.
How did I even get here?
Well, my pride had gotten the best of me, making me think I could figure out my life and purpose on my own. I didn’t want anyone’s help.
Looking in the rearview mirror, I see that I missed the clues that could have shown me it was a good idea to hire a Life Coach.
Do you see any of these clues? Friend, don’t ignore them like I did, ok?
1. You always answer the question, “How are you?” with “Sooo busy!”
Ooff. Anyone else realize how much we idolize busyness? Like full agendas and breathlessness are virtues or something. Almost like if we aren’t over-scheduled, we’re not doing it right.
When was the last time you looked at your calendar from a position of peace, and not from a place of perpetuity or pandemonium? (Do you like all the alliterations?)
Friend, ask yourself these honest questions:
Is there a void you are trying to fill with your busyness?
Are you afraid of quietness?
What exactly do you think that busyness says about you?
Get curious about those.
2. You live in a state of chaos or overwhelm
This relates to #1, but it’s not entirely the same. Chaos and overwhelm are regular companions.
Chaos: a state in which everything is out of order
Overwhelm: incapacitating emotional or mental stress
Do either (or both) of those sound familiar? Things out of order & disorganized? The inability to move because everything is tooo stressful?
This is not how you were created to live, friend. This does not reflect the peace and the joy that Christ offers to us in this life.
Your life coach can ask gentle, hard questions to help you to uncover what’s behind these things, and point you in a healthy direction forward. We don’t need to live in fight, freeze, or flight mode.
3. You can’t articulate your personal mission statement
You’re not alone in this one. I’ve actually found that far more businesses than individuals can articulate a mission statement.
A mission statement actually points us out of chaos. It helps us align our direction with our values. Developing one is honestly one of the most clarifying tools I have found in building a life of joy and purpose.
4. You feel like you’ve lost yourself in motherhood
Mamas. Motherhood is a beautiful gift. And with the number of friends I know who yearn for the opportunity, I sometimes struggle to call moms out of the crowd for fear of hurting someone else.
But mamas – we know that motherhood is a gift, and also so hard. And it’s so easy to get lost in the busyness and the mundane day-in-day-out of it. And when multiple kiddos rule our every moment, we sometimes forget to function as unique individuals. We can’t think, we can’t stay rested or tidy, and the goal of keeping everyone alive and fed so easily takes over every other thing.
It also often lures us into escape mode, which is definitely not ideal.
Because God created us even before He created our kids. And we have unique passions, gifts, and skills that are not only meant for our families, but for people outside of our families as well. We are made for community, and we have special roles to play in the community to bless others, and for advancement of the Kingdom.
If we limit ourselves to just our homes for the period of 18-25 years or so that we have our brood growing under our roofs, we will easily lose sight of the impact we can simultaneously have on people outside of our homes.
(PS This is not a SAHM vs Working Mom convo. This is a purposeful woman convo – and purposeful women can work outside the home or stay at home. It comes down to living with intentionality into the specific thing God calls us to.)
You just don’t have to put it off until the kids are grown.
5. You want to discover your unique radiance in the world
This relates closely to #4, but is definitely not only for moms.
Maybe you aren’t even sure what your unique value-add in the world would be. You haven’t necessarily clarified for yourself what it is about you that makes you you. You aren’t sure what it is that you could do, or how you could live on purpose to make a difference in someone else’s life. You have a sense that there is more, but you’re not sure what it is
A Life Coach is uniquely called and qualified to help you uncover these things about yourself so you can be set loose to radiate.
6. When you imagine yourself in 2, 5, or 10 years, the picture is fuzzy
Oh gosh, friend! We are invited to dream with clarity, with imagination, with vivid color! Our God is so creative. And if we are made in His image (spoiler alert: we ARE) then that means we get to dream about our future and joyfully plan for it; Not obscure, vague dreams, but clear, on-purpose ones.
If you aren’t sure how to give yourself this kind of permission, it’s time to hire a life coach who can really help you get out of your head and into the world!
7. You really would love to redesign your life and vocation to be something you love, but you have no idea how.
You know those people who seem to thrive at life? Or who seem to be able to create the exact life that they want to live, blending vocation seamlessly with passion?
Maybe they are working from home or on the road, and it never seems like “work”.
Maybe they are visiting lots of fantastic places.
Maybe they are having a crazy meaningful impact on people, doing what really makes them thrive, and makes the people around them light up.
–> How do you think they got to build that kind of life? Not accidentally, I assure you.
Instead, they decided that their future self was worth investing in now.
They decided that fear and insecurity weren’t going keep them stuck anymore in a place of discontentment.
They got brave, challenged their uncertainties, became creative about resources, and dove in.
(And they aren’t looking back, are they?)
That kind of confident, vibrant, meaningful living isn’t just for a select few – in fact, I believe it’s really the way we are intended to live. God created us to be masterpieces, and He created good works for us to do.
With such a kind, vibrant, colorful, imaginative, and abundant God, I just can’t see that He meant for us to live in gray monotony. It doesn’t fit His character.
BONUS reason: You are at a point of transition in life, and transition feels scary.
You know what? Transition doesn’t have to be scary. It can actually be a thrilling gateway to something new.
But it does take wisdom and care to proceed. And it often takes another perspective to help us see past our blind spots. It takes the nudging and confidence boosting from a third party (or even a couple of third parties) to help us quell the limitations and do. the. thing.
Life Coaching and Purpose
I became a Life Coach because I truly believe that we are made to thrive at life, and that a purposeful, colorful life now is possible as we build a joyful & lasting legacy.
I love to come alongside women to ask the questions and help them move from chaos and overwhelm into simplicity and insane purpose.
I love to help women create the calendar that makes them light up, do the things that they love that most fully radiate who God created them to be.
If you are curious at all about what it would look like for you to get brave now to invest in your soon-to-be future self and hire a life coach, man alive, I’d LOVE to dream about that with you!
I’m easy to find right here, and it would be my JOY to talk about this with you!
Have you been afraid of what God is calling you to? Does it feel just too big for you?
It probably is. And you probably won’t get it right. And you’ll see failure along the way, and experience moments where you want to quit. How’s that for hope for you today?
Listen, if the call you sense in your innermost being seems just too huge for little you, can I introduce you to a few people?
-Moses
-Jonah
-Elisha
-David
-Peter
Just to name a few…
All were called
All of them were called. All of them were too small.
They each doubted at some point that they could fulfill their calling. All eventually clung to the Lord and followed His direction in some way.
They each left incredible legacy, and showed us that legacy is possible despite human frailty, when we lean into the Lord, trust His voice, and choose to step forward with courage.
We won’t get it right
We won’t get it all right – we will fail sometimes. We’ll doubt ourselves, and we will doubt God.
We’ll say the wrong thing, and avoid the right conversation.
We’ll hide. We’ll get angry.
We’ll even lament our lot In life maybe.
But if God is welling something up under the surface, if He is calling us to something bigger than ourselves, we need to answer. And He’ll help us walk it out.
Let’s not put it off anymore.
“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 NIV)
What’s the reason you get up in the morning? What draws you to put your feet on the floor? Does it fuel you with JOY?
I’ll be honest that many mornings saw my feet hit the floor out of sheer necessity. I didn’t roll out of bed with excitement for what lay ahead of me in the day. In fact I dreaded it, both when working, and when at home with my kids. I didn’t really have a plan or specific goals, or feel at all purposeful. I just knew I had to get up in the morning.
Do You Want to Establish Your Life Purpose?
PSA: It shouldn’t take someone to hit their forties before they discover their life can radiate with purpose.
It shouldn’t be long before they unlock what brings them meaning and joy. It did for me though. I floundered.
But now my season of purposelessness and floundering fuels me to help other people discover their joyful purpose earlier. To establish purpose now. To build the life that not only leaves an incredible impact on the world, but also brings genuine joy and satisfaction. It’s never too early or too late for that while we still draw breath.
Several years back, I head this phrase deep in my soul: Joy Let Loose. If you’ve been around these parts, you know that the phrase itself made no sense in my context at the time because I was battling depression and facing difficult times with my kids and my own motivation.
Joy Let Loose
But I now know that phrase was the gift of a seed that managed to plant its way into my undeserving soil, and take root.
Joy Let Loose first became a blog. Because honestly that’s the only thing I could think of to do with it. I was kind of stuck at home at the time, and unable to work, so I figured I’d do something I was decent at, and use this new phrase as a title. On this blog, it became both a lens and a benchmark for how I would serve my readers. I soon discovered many other people were also starving for joy.
As time progressed and I wrote more for this blog, I had opportunity to write in a few other publications as well. No matter where my words landed, I made the effort to keep JOY as my lens. Because people want to be more joyful.
A Reason to Get Up in the Morning
On social media, I curated and created content to help bring people JOY. People were finding it helpful. Then when I launched as a Brand Partner with Young Living, I found my chief audience were women desperate for help with their hormones and emotions. They needed to find sanity in the chaos of everyday life, and were also floundering. Now I have been so blessed to come alongside a couple hundred people to manage those emotions safely and holistically. And I have the honor of mentoring other Brand Partners as they lean into their purpose too.
As my customers were seeing results in their physical, mental, and emotional wellness, I quickly realized my new small business was an extension of my purpose to let JOY loose in people. And my small business and community brings me exceptional joy.
That’s really just a snapshot of a focused process that helped me lift up my head from discouragement, cultivate purpose, and lean into it. There were intentional steps I needed to take to examine myself and my motivations, to learn how my past hurts were impacting me, and how my perspective needed shifting.
I’m so incredibly glad I put in that work to gain clarity and direction.
Coming Soon
I became certified as a Life Coach, and I have a growing desire to teach people. I want to help folks who feel joyless and purposeless how to rewrite their stories like I did. How to reframe past experiences, leverage their unique skills and passions, and lean into a more focused life.
I’m really excited as the ideas and content come together. And I’m praying over each and every client that the Lord will lead my way. It is rewarding to see how my own story, my teaching skills and ministry and life coaching training have prepared me to lead other people toward lives of impact, joy, and fulfillment.
I am looking for people who want a reason to jump out of bed in the morning. I’m looking for those who feel joyless but want to let joy loose. I’m praying for those who feel lost, but want to find and live out your life purpose.
Stay Up to Date
If that sounds like you, I’d love to add you to my email list so you can stay up to date as the pilot course gets ready to launch. Do you want to establish your life purpose? I would be honored to help you! Simply click here to stay up to date!
Thanks for much for being here! If you know someone facing purposelessness, I’d be so grateful if you shared this with them, or on your social media channels!
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A Joy Resource
When we go hiking, we plan ahead for the journey. Same is true when we head out camping, take a road trip for the week, or move into the dorm for the semester. We plan out what resources we will need for a healthy and successful journey. So should it also be when we set out on a JOY journey. It’s important to arm ourselves with the resources we need to be successful.
I like to think of this blog as one of your resources. I try to fill it with encouragement, practical tips, and personal stories in order to fuel your faith that an intentionally joyful life is actually possible. Not only possible, but desirable and God-honoring. I want each and every one of us to live with such steady, strengthening, expressive JOY that we can’t help but let it loose to the people around us.
So I’ve been collecting more resources for you.
One beautiful resource I’ve found is The Joyful Life Magazine. This lovely spot is a beautiful place for women to hang out to be encouraged, to learn, and to build your own collection of helpful resources you can use at home.
The Joyful Life is not just a beautiful magazine—it is the inspiration for a faith-driven movement.
-The Joyful Life Magazine
Their goal as a magazine, and as a company, is to provide you with content, inspiration, resources, and products that will draw you into a closer walk with Christ so that you will be equipped to experience authentic joy in every area of your life!
That sounds a lot like our goal around here!
What joy resource can I find there?
I love that The Joyful Life Magazine has options for kinds of resources. First and foremost, they are a magazine. This beautiful paper magazine has a luxury print quality that complements their standard of excellence in written content, imagery, aesthetic, and design, resulting in a collectible volume of quarterly journals. You can purchase single volumes, or purchase an annual subscription very reasonably. It is simultaneously beautiful, practical, and inspiring, giving great fuel for everyday life.
Not only is there a print magazine, though, but they also have a lovely and helpful Blog. You’ll find a variety of topics on the blog, including:
Book reviews
Parenting posts
Encouragement in spiritual disciplines
Character studies
Recipes
DIY ideas
… and a lot more too!
Digital Joy Resources
Yesterday I purchased a new digital resource from The Joyful Life Magazine. It’s a two-week study called Counting It All Joy.
It is a lovely, 81-page PDF download that offers personal story, Scripture reflection, poetry, and the opportunity to respond to the Lord as we consider the book of Philippians.
I’ve only just begun, but I’m very happy with this opportunity to sit with Paul in Philippians for the next two weeks. I love having the option to print it or read it on my device and take it with me wherever I go.
Journals and Print Resources
If you are a reader or like to journal, I think you might fall in love right about now. The Joyful Life Magazine provides gorgeous Bible Studies, books, and journals that are aesthetically pleasing, and rich in content.
On occasion they bundle products together at reduced prices. The one that I have my eye on right now is The Everyday Joy Bundle , volumes 1 & 2 of their Everyday Joy Devotional.
What joy resource are you looking for?
I hope that you find this recommendation helpful! I think the Joyful Life Magazine is a beautiful opportunity to get the “supplies” we need for our joy journey. I’d love for you to surround yourself with everything you need to be successful as you pursue joy. And maybe we have family and friends who we could encourage with a joyful gift too. Let’s live intentionally, fuel up, and let our joy loose, shall we?
What joy resource are you getting from The Joyful Life Magazine?
