Here's my story.

I am the eldest child of a Pentecostal missionary couple. I grew up in the cauldron of helping hurt people experience healing and help.

I have helped other people, some older and some younger, work through challenges and issues in their life for as long as I can remember.

Sometimes it was about finding direction in life and then other times it was about helping with their mindset and the way they approached life.

My coaching career started before coaching was even recognised as a known thing.

For many, I was the go-to guy. Parents would quietly pull me aside and ask questions about their teenagers, and husbands and wives would talk with me about their relationships.

But in 2010 I came face-to-face with something I did not know how to overcome by myself.

I simply called it 'The Lonely' and it came upon me slowly. I did not see it coming until one day I woke up to the experience of being trapped and it was like I was in a room with no windows, no sound, no escape.

I felt detached and isolated. People were all around me, but I felt myself shutting down and disconnecting from them. Even my family.

This couldn't be happening to me, I thought. After all, I was the certified master coach. I was the one that leaders of business and family came to for help, advice and wisdom. I had even written a book about rediscovering a meaningful and fulfilled life.

This could not be happening to me! But it was.

In 2010 I lost everything. My desire to participate as a parent, a husband and a friend was gone and along with it my confidence and my business. This season lasted for several years.

In 2013 just as I was moving out of The Lonely and reengaging with the world, I suffered a heart attack and then, again, just as life was beginning to feel somewhat normal, we lost our 3-year-old granddaughter to a tragic drowning accident.