All of my life, I have had a desire to do the right thing by pleasing God and other people. \u00a0However, when I could not keep it together and failed, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. \u00a0I knew if I tried really hard I could do it without the help of anyone, including God. \u00a0This struggle left me feeling like a failure more than once. \u00a0It was only when I realized I was powerless by myself and could admit my imperfections, I became secure and confident in whom I was as a woman in Christ.<\/p>\n
Control<\/strong><\/p>\n After many years of infertility, multiple miscarriages, and trying to \u201cfix\u201d things in my marriage on my own, I had to realize there are things in my life I can not control. \u00a0I had to be willing to submit those things to God and give up my fears, my timelines, and plans of how I think it should be done. For someone who prided herself on being organized, on time, and prepared for any situation, the lack of control in certain areas of my life left me feeling hopeless.<\/p>\n What a happy day when I really understood my life\u2019s scripture. What a relief. I am not expected to have it all together. God knows we are going to fail, so why shouldn\u2019t we expect it of our self.<\/p>\n As a fitness and wellness coach, my purpose in life is to work with women who want to overcome the helpless feeling of not knowing how to maintain their weight and consistency in their fitness. \u00a0I understand the feeling of having control and discipline in so many areas of life, yet struggling internally in one area that is so important to a woman. It can leave you feeling powerless.<\/p>\n My heart is to empower women to feel confident in their choices with food and exercise, and guide them toward a life of balance physically, mentally and spiritually, no matter how busy life gets.<\/p>\n *****<\/strong><\/p>\n Crystal will be blogging for At Home with GCH<\/strong> on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month.<\/p>\n You can follow Crystal’s business blog at www.yourfitnessdesigner.com<\/a> and\/or follow her on www.facebook.com\/yourfitnessdesigner<\/a>.<\/p>\n For a personal Fitness and Food Design, you can email her at crystal@yourfitnessdesigner.com<\/strong> to schedule a free telephone consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I Can Handle It \u00a0 \u201cI can handle it and figure it all out on my own. If I mess up, I do not need anyone to help me. \u00a0I am strong enough and capable to turn it around and make it right. \u00a0I know the exact time when things need to be done according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":10886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,2399],"tags":[9296,4,2159,2158,425,753,2157],"class_list":["post-10885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-home-with-gch","category-health-wellness-fitness","tag-at-home-with-gch","tag-control","tag-crystal-bush-breaux","tag-fitness-designer","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-perfection","tag-wellness-coach","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Crystal-headshot-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-2Pz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10885"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11829,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885\/revisions\/11829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Phil1_6\"](\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Phil1_6.jpg\")
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