Beth Stroup Email and Phone Number

I'm an eclectic 50478 year old home educating, single-mom from Texas, and attend college full time to obtain my psychology degree. Professionally, I am a Life Coach specializing in issues specific to men. In the early years I worked at everything from business management to Youth Ministry. In more recent years I have worked extensively as a Behavior Specialist in group homes for both severely mentally ill adult men, and teenage boys convicted of sexual abuse toward others. For the last six years I served as a volunteer on the Board of Directors of a non-profit organization that provides transitional services to survivors of domestic abuse and supports various community efforts.This quote sums up my philosophy about work, relationships, and life in general . . . ."The person who falls upon hard times in the world, will not, as a consequence, turn to that which offers them refuge and comfort, thus encouraging their old self to survive. Rather, they will seek out that which will faithfully and inexorably help them to risk themselves, so that they may endure the difficulty and pass courageously through it! Only to the extent that a person exposes themselves over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible be found within them. In this daring lies dignity and the spirit of true awakening." ~~Zen teacher Kalfried von DurkheimI coach in the manner of this quote as well. When it comes to problem solving, I tend to take a pretty tough stance. Most of the problems in our lives are not brought to us by others, we bring them to ourselves. My advice is *always* to face the problem head on - and the steps are to evade, resist, and escape. I do not encourage others to return to their old selves, but use the human power of creation to make a new life. That takes a war-like mentality. Search and destroy, if you will.Specialties: Life Coach, Behavior Specialist, Research, Public Speaking, Tutoring, Teaching, Employee Training, Marketing, Writing