Lynn Mattina

Below I've written about my personal journey:

After graduating from College in my early twenties, I moved to Southern California for job opportunity in broadcasting. Finding no open doors or training, I went back into art school searching for a design oriented culture. The small private school I attended asked me to stay on after I graduated. I chose to establish myself in tutoring, assisting the instructor and teaching updated graphics programs. Computer technology is like learning a new language especially for students who know english as a second language. I heightened my listening skills so I could understand my students and learn how to assist individual concerns. I soon became a sounding board to deeper problems within each individual's life. People with high depression and anxiety seemed to follow me and my deep compassion to help them increased. One night a student called me at home and wanted to thank me for assisting him. He told me that he was going to crawl into the oven and end his life that night. But he remembered my encouragement and he changed his mind. This event was shocking and changed my life.

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After a few years I stayed the path of an Art Director/Designer in the L.A. and Orange County advertising and marketing communities. The lifestyle in advertising can endure long hours, hard deadlines and highly charged political environments. This season had lessons in navigating communication strategies. The ability to understand words quickly, jump into team dynamics and maneuvering high emotions were a part of everyday life. I also volunteered to mentor and coach a long line of outside clientele. Most of these precious people could not afford expensive therapeutic counsel. By word of mouth, I was contacted by church leadership, P.h.Ds and many referrals to help extremely damaged people find their feet again. Psychology doesn't teach the deeper places of the soul and spirit and most of the time the church doesn't know how to handle brokenness either. Through my own experience with trauma, I was able to assist wounded hearts back to health where psychology and theology had failed them. Then the Lord called me into a deliverance and healing ministry. He brought me a beautiful team of women by my side as well as amazing intercessors around the world who prayed with my team and I. We had a 1 1/2 year waiting list for years. Miracles, signs and wonders became an everyday phenomena. Isn't that the way it's supposed to be?

Having become burnt out and overly taxed in advertising, my Dad's words would ring in my ears, "Go do what you know how to do best." I dearly loved art and designing, but this really never helped anyone live a fuller life. My heart ached for the wounded that couldn't find answers. Understanding the complexities from my own healing process, I knew what it was like to be completely misunderstood, abused, utterly alone in my home and community and pushed away by the church. Feeling better meant a continual flow of learning and teaching myself and others. I'm led into coaching adversity because I understand what it feels like. And I don't want anyone to walk alone through their pain.