Manage triggers, lower irritations, wrangle your inner critic, and break stuck patterns.

In all your relationships (including with God!)

P.S. I also help you manage annoying people and become less annoying too. :)

What the kids are saying:

  • Chip and Jo Gaines

    Chip and Jo Gaines

    Magnolia, Fixer Upper

    Steve's time with our Magnolia staff was WONDERFUL. He helped put words to the anxiety that so many people feel both on a personal and professional level. Since his visit, we've been able to see the practical utilization of what Steve taught, which has been invaluable. We highly recommend!

  • Rich Villodas

    Rich Villodas

    Pastor. Author: The Deeply Formed Life.

    With profound depth of insight, humor, and empathy, Steve is a trusted guide for those looking to lead as a “calm presence” in the world. I highly recommend him for your personal life and organization.

  • Christine Caine

    Christine Caine

    Speaker, Author, Founder of A21

    We are SO GRATEFUL for Steve. His work with our global team and me personally, is phenomenal. Our team voted Steve 'the best thing that happened in our organization this year.' He's helped us so much.

Resources

  • Capable Life Logo

    Capable Life

    Tools that are spiritual, clinical and practical.

    Where I host my best transformational tools. All resources are field tested and proven to bring long term change. Click below for group studies, online private community, self paced courses, intensives and more.

  • Podcast

    Fresh conversations and tools to help you relax into God’s presence. Listen to guests like Beth Moore, Henry Cloud and 160 others. Subscribe wherever you get your pods or check out our Youtube channel below.

  • TEG

    TEG

    The book that is revolutionizing our faith by helping us mind the gap between our beliefs and experience. Deal with deep seated assumptions and stuck patterns., change the way you approach the Bible and yourself. Click below for church wide sermon series and group study resources

  • Managing Leadership Anxiety

    MLA

    The book that started it all! Get relief by diffusing dynamics under the surface in you and your people. Learn detangle what is in you vs what is coming at you from others. Break predictable patterns, stop attempted solutions. Required reading in over 20 universities and seminaries.

“The differentiated self is a connected presence.

Curious. Non Reactive.

Keeping anxiety from spreading to others,

sifting assumptions and false expectations.

Connecting to self, others and God.

This is difficult and life giving work.”

My speciality: four dynamics that infect all relationships:

  1. Reactivity. (The only form of anxiety that is contagious.)

  2. Assumptions. (The fastest way to disconnection.)

  3. Predictable Patterns. (You run into yourself again and again or you are weary of the same dance with that other person.)

  4. Attempted Solutions. (Your best effort to fix it keeps it stuck or makes it worse.)

    I help you notice, name, and diffuse them in you and your relationships.

The Results:

  • You can work with difficult people without catching what they’re spreading.

  • You can break long standing dynamics that wear everyone down.

  • You can put the anxiety back where it belongs and help people take responsibility.

  • You can be well while working in the most broken and intense situations.

  • Your body can relax in the peace and freedom of God that your head believes in.  

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