Frequently asked questions about chronic illness coaching, faith, and the Fast Break Fridays podcast.

Every engagement starts with a free consultation — a 30-minute conversation where we map out what you're navigating. From there, most clients work with us through ongoing coaching: 1:1 sessions grounded in a Doctorate in Coaching and pastoral care through Lion and the King Ministry. We work on the things that fall between specialist visits — pacing, medication decisions, the language you'll use in the 12-minute visits, and the days your body won't move. See the coaching engagements and pricing →

Most of chronic illness actually lives in the days and weeks between specialist visits — the energy you have for pacing, the medication logs, the symptom patterns worth flagging. Coaching between appointments turns the specialist's plan into a daily practice you can sustain, and walks you into the next visit prepared rather than exhausted. Read the doctor-prep pillar on the chronic-illness hub →

If lab work keeps coming back "normal" while your symptoms keep coming back, the work shifts toward advocacy. We help you bring the right materials to the 12-minute visit, ask the right questions, and use the language that moves a dismissive visit forward — including the templates for the moments when "it's stress" comes up again. Read: when the doctor says it's stress →

Yes — and for most of the people in this work, they have to. The faith & perseverance pillar at LKM treats pastoral care as the framework that keeps you moving on the days your body won't move for you, not as decoration layered on top of the hard stuff. Pastoral care through Lion and the King Ministry is woven into every engagement that wants it. Read the faith & perseverance pillar →

Coaching is forward-looking and goal-shaped — what you're moving toward and what's in the way. Pastoral counseling tends to be more reflection-centered and ongoing as care. LKM blends both: the founder holds a Doctorate in Coaching alongside pastoral care credentials through Lion and the King Ministry, so engagements can lean either way depending on what you need. See coaching engagements →

Disclosure isn't a values question alone — it's also a pacing question. What to share, when to share it, and how to protect the energy you don't usually have on a Tuesday morning. We wrote a Christian's guide that works through disclosure and pacing together — practical for chronically ill patients, not theoretical. Read: a Christian's guide to disclosure and pacing →

Holding two conflicting diagnoses without collapsing into either one is one of the harder pastoral and practical moments in chronic illness. This guide walks through the faith-anchored framework — prayer, community, the body-as-temple theology, and the operating posture of holding two answers in tension — alongside the three-column comparison page and the second-opinion script that help you decide what to do next when specialists disagree. Read: a faith-anchored guide to navigating conflicting diagnoses →

Caregiver fatigue hits different when you're also the patient — the load doesn't pause for your flare days, and the guilt of needing to step back can quietly become a faith crisis. We wrote a guide that pairs the operational moves (a weekly energy-vs-obligation grid, a delegation matrix, a scope downshift for ministry seasons) with the biblical framework for limits as wisdom, not failure — Galatians 6:2 alongside Galatians 6:5, the body-as-temple theology for the season when the temple needs rest, and the prayer language for "I cannot" without collapsing into shame. Read: a faith-anchored guide to caregiving while you're the patient →

No. Pastoral care through Lion and the King Ministry is part of LKM's foundation — the coaching engagements can lean on it where it fits — but the chronic-illness coaching itself is open to anyone navigating the work between appointments. See coaching engagements →

Fast Break Fridays is the LKM podcast — short, weekly episodes pairing a Scripture highlight with prayer and a moment of stillness. It's built for the chronic-illness and faith lane, designed to land in a few minutes and carry you into the rest of the week. See the show →

Episode 1 launches in 2026, with one short episode each Friday. The first episode sets the tone for the show — Scripture, prayer, and a chronic-illness-aware stillness you can take into the rest of the week. Read the Episode 1 page →

Major podcast platforms (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc.) and from the podcast page here. If an episode lands with you, the best way to support the show is to send it to one person who's navigating the same season — that's how a small podcast finds the people it was made for. See the podcast →