Yun-A Johnson is currently living in Colorado with her family where she is busy raising her three sons, managing her business "Your Aesthetic Style", and has started a parenting support ministry. She has led a young couple’s support ministry in Norway, served as part of the Blessing and Family Department team in Europe and led the Blessing and Family Ministry in North America from 2020-2023. Join us as she shares how she worked through the pain, resentment, and feeling like a victim from the divorce of her parents to find forgiveness, joy, and love. She says she discovered that "True Love has the power to dissolve all barriers." Yun-A shares tools and resources that have supported her in this journey and how her experiences have impacted her own parenting.

Claire Hinkle is a mother of four adult children and a loving grandmother. She has been a small group coordinator for many years in eastern Pennsylvania and was a staff member of Shehaqua Family Camp for 30 years. Join us as she shares the wisdom that she has gained through her parenting journey and rich life experiences.

A father of three, David Young is a certified life coach and mindfulness meditation teacher who recently completed a two-year Timeless Wisdom training with Thomas Hübl. Currently, he is training to be a marriage and family therapist. Listen as David shares how he came to the realization that he needed personal healing, kicking and screaming. Working through his relationships with his parents and siblings led him to his current work with individuals, families, schools, and other organizations and businesses. David also speaks about his experience of being with his father during his last weeks of his life, what he inherited from him, and how we can work through anger to find forgiveness.

Find out more of the programs that David Young talked about: https://www.beingwholehearted.com/
Contact him here: david@beingwholehearted.com

John Abelseth has been married for 42 years. He and his wife Helen raised their six children near Vancouver, BC, Canada and have eight grandchildren. In this podcast, John shares how his involvement in the Blessing & Family Ministry as a matching supporter and part of the core BFM team has enriched his life. After raising their own children, John and Helen purchased a mobile home and traveled to communities around the US and Canada educating and supporting families in helping their adult children in finding a partner in marriage. When asked by parents when they should begin educating themselves about how to do this, John recommends, "As soon as a couple is blessed in marriage, they should begin thinking and preparing for raising their future children...they first learn about how to give and receive love in the family. We pass on the important things in life through absorption from the family culture."

In this episode, Rafael Guignard describes how he went from being a rebellious teenager who almost died from drinking too much alcohol to finding his own faith while doing a church gap year program which strengthened his relationship with his parents. Through these experiences, Rafael made decisions in his life:

• to focus on creating loving relationships instead of being right
• to find gratitude for his parents and see past challenges with them in a new light
• choosing to attend the Marriage Blessing and commit to creating a loving family

Rafael is a certified Life and Performance Coach as well as the national Family Federation church leader in France.

In this episode, Myrna sits down with Andrew Love to discuss his journey to become a parent. Starting from a declaration in his early twenties that he was never going to have kids because it is bad for the environment, through becoming open to the idea of having kids but dealing with a deep-seated fear that he would be a bad parent to a place where he is deeply in love with being a parent to his three boys. Andrew also shared about how his faith forms and sustains his family and has lead to healing of the relationships with his parents.

Andrew Love has been blessed in marriage for 12 to his wife from Mongolia whose upbringing greatly influenced him to see parenting as natural, intuitive and about being present to their needs. He has filled many roles in life, being a comedian, a missionary, and a pastor. Starting in 2012, Andrew has worked with High Noon, a program that supports individuals getting ready for marriage, and now serves as the Executive Director. https://highnoon.org/

Resources:

https://www.schooloflove.org/

https://www.facebook.com/schooloflove.org/

Additional Resources

• Contact Myrna Lapres: www.coachmyrna.org

• 7 Gifts to Give Your Child—Parenting That Will Touch Their Future by Myrna Lapres

Questions:

Email: deeperconnection@familyfed.org

Music by Yurii Kohut from Pixabay

In this episode, Myrna and Crescentia talk with Shota Iwasaki to discuss intergenerational trauma, forgiveness, and his personal experiences healing and growing as a father of seven.

Rev. Shota Iwasaki is the father of 7 children, ages 16-29, and currently serves as the pastor of the Unification Family Church of Philadelphia (UFC). Rev. Shota is actively engaged in the local community through initiating the organization, "We Are Talking Trash," fighting against illegal trash dumping on public property and sidewalks and beautifying the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia.

Additional Resources

• Contact Myrna Lapres: www.coachmyrna.org

• 7 Gifts to Give Your Child—Parenting That Will Touch Their Future by Myrna Lapres

Questions:

Email: deeperconnection@familyfed.org

Music by Yurii Kohut from Pixabay

In this episode, Justin Okamoto shares some recent breakthroughs in his relationship with his parents and how seeking support from his relationship coach, Crescentia, has led to greater understanding and forgiveness.

Justin Okamoto is the Director of Training and Development for Northeast Subregion and head pastor of the Belvedere Family Community.

Additional Resources

• Contact Myrna Lapres: www.coachmyrna.org

• 7 Gifts to Give Your Child—Parenting That Will Touch Their Future by Myrna Lapres

Questions:

Email: deeperconnection@familyfed.org

Music by Yurii Kohut from Pixabay