When Life Feels Hard — Even When You’re Doing the “Right Things”
A steadier, more grounded way to live, lead, and follow Christ.
Life can feel emotionally exhausting beneath the surface — even when everything appears to be working on the outside.
This coaching journey helps you grow in emotional resilience, relational maturity, and identity rooted in Christ so you can navigate work, family, faith, and everyday life with greater steadiness and clarity.
You may be functioning well but not fully rooted in peace or purpose. You may care deeply about your faith, but sense something inside feels “off” or misaligned.
Our work together isn’t about quick fixes or stronger willpower. It’s about slowing down, noticing what shapes your patterns, and growing in emotional steadiness, relational awareness, and spiritual depth—grounded in how lasting change actually happens.
Through personalized, Christ-centered coaching, many people begin to experience:
• Greater emotional steadiness — responding with regulation rather than reactivity
• Clearer identity and direction — rooted in who you are in Christ
• Healthier relationships — with stronger connection, boundaries, and repair
• A more grounded way of living — less striving, more faithful presence
This work isn’t focused on managing behavior. It focuses on becoming whole—understanding your inner patterns, strengthening stability from the inside out, and aligning how you live with who God created you to be.
What Your Coaching Journey Includes
✔ A Personalized Growth Plan
Clarifying where you are, what’s shaping you, and where God may be inviting growth.
✔ Bi-Weekly Coaching Sessions (50 minutes)
Relational, reflective conversations that help you regulate, process, and move forward with intention.
✔ Support Between Sessions
Optional email or text check-ins and curated tools to help you stay grounded and integrated.
✔ Tools for Awareness & Formation
Practical insights and reflective practices that illuminate patterns and strengthen emotional and relational maturity.
What Growth Like This Often Looks Like in Everyday Life
Clients often describe their growth as becoming emotionally steadier, spiritually grounded, and more confident in how they navigate relationships, decisions, and everyday life.
Many of them begin to notice that they:
• Respond with greater steadiness instead of reactivity
• Make decisions with clearer confidence and peace
• Show up more fully and consistently in relationships
• Build rhythms and habits that genuinely support the life they want to live
• Experience faith less as information and more as a steady, lived relationship with God
The change isn’t only internal. It becomes visible in daily choices, relationships, and in the way life’s pressures are carried.
Areas Coaching Often Explores
Every coaching journey is shaped by your season of life, your story, and what God may be inviting you into. While each process is personalized, coaching often includes growth in areas such as:
• Emotional resilience and maturity — remaining grounded under real-life pressure
• Self-awareness and inner clarity — noticing patterns, emotions, and responses with compassion
• Relational health and boundaries — strengthening connection while maintaining wisdom and limits
• Understanding formative patterns — exploring how past experiences continue to shape the present
• Deepening lived relationship with God — moving faith from knowledge into daily experience
• Purpose and direction — discerning faithful next steps with clarity and steadiness
• Sustainable rhythms — cultivating rest, reflection, and joy that support long-term growth
This isn’t a checklist. It simply reflects the kinds of places where meaningful growth often unfolds.
Who This Coaching Is For
This coaching tends to be a strong fit for individuals who resonate with experiences like these:
• A desire to feel more emotionally grounded and steady in everyday life
• Feeling the pressure of work, family, or leadership and want to respond with greater emotional steadiness and resilience.
• A sense of readiness for growth, but uncertainty about what faithful next steps look like
• Persistent overwhelm, overthinking, or fatigue beneath the surface
• A longing for deeper connection—with God, with others, and with yourself
• A desire for clarity and purpose that meaningfully shapes daily life and decisions
You don’t have to be “ready” or have everything together. Coaching simply begins with a willingness to slow down, pay attention, and grow with intention over time.
How Coaching Typically Unfolds
Many people begin coaching seeking clarity or relief from feeling stuck. As coaching progresses, it often deepens into emotional and relational growth that supports lasting transformation. Some clients continue with ongoing coaching to help integrate growth and navigate new seasons of life, leadership, and faith.
Coaching is personalized, but intentionally designed as a steady process that builds meaningful change over time.
Tools That Support Your Growth
I use assessments to help you understand:
how you’re wired (DISC, CliftonStrengths)
what motivates you (Motivation Code)
how you find meaning and values (Core Values Finder)
your spiritual flourishing (Spiritual Metrics, Christian Flourishing Assessment)
These tools create shared language and insight we can build coaching around — they don’t define you, they illuminate you.
A Thoughtful Investment in You
Sustainable growth rarely comes through quick fixes. It grows through steady attention to how your inner life, relationships, and leadership function under pressure. That’s why this coaching is designed as a rhythm and practice, not a checklist.
Coaching is intentionally limited to a small number of clients to preserve depth, presence, and individualized care.
Coaching Pathways
Most clients begin in one of two focused growth pathways, depending on what they’re navigating right now:
🌱 Pathway 1 - Purpose & Life Direction Coaching
Designed for those seeking clarity around calling, direction, and next steps. This pathway helps you identify strengths, values, motivations, and practical action rhythms that align with who you are and who you’re becoming.
🌿 Pathway 2 - Emotional & Relational Growth Coaching
Designed for those ready to explore deeper patterns shaping their relationships, identity, and emotional resilience. This pathway focuses on strengthening relational skills, emotional regulation, and personal integration for lasting transformation.
Many clients move between these pathways as growth unfolds.
What’s Included
• 50-minute coaching sessions (bi-weekly)
• Personalized growth plan and assessment integration
• Between-session support via email or text (as needed)
• Reflection tools and exercises tailored to your journey
Investment & Coaching Rhythm
Coaching is offered through a monthly rhythm that supports steady, sustainable growth.
• $300/month (bi-weekly coaching rhythm)
Most clients commit to a 3- to 6-month journey to build meaningful momentum and integration.
Ongoing Integration Coaching
Some clients choose to continue with monthly sessions after their initial coaching journey to sustain growth, navigate new seasons, and remain grounded in intentional development. Ongoing coaching is offered at $150/month.
Not sure if this is the right next step for you?
I’m happy to talk it through with you, no pressure at all — reach out and let’s talk through it together. You’ll get honest guidance, even if that means coaching isn’t the next step.
You can also check out some Frequently Asked Questions here.
Let’s Talk
If you’re ready to take the next step, let’s connect.
After you click, you’ll schedule a free discovery call where we’ll talk about your goals and discern whether coaching is a good fit.
What Clients Are Saying…
Dr. Justin Tilghman seamlessly integrated leadership strategies, personal growth, and faith-based wisdom. Over the past year, his mentorship has helped me clarify my core values, align my leadership style, and find balance in life. His faith-centered guidance has shown me how to experience resilience and joy through Christ, even in challenging seasons. Working with him has been transformative, and I wholeheartedly recommend Balanced Coaching to anyone seeking personal and professional growth.
-Chad M., Tennessee