Angela Stuart-Jackson
About
My Life Journey
Hi! My name is Angela Stuart-Jackson. I began this conscious journey of self-discovery in 1995 after my first husband passed away in a tragic accident. At the time, I had two young daughters and a whole life ahead of me. I remarried soon with a heavy heart of grief yet hope for a future of beauty and new paths. Many struggles arose in this second marriage but what I realized after my second husband passed away in 2015 was that struggles pointed me to question my faith, my purpose, God’s existence, and other’s intentions. For twenty years, this has been my story. I was confused about who I was. Grief, loss, and many transitions had left me in a place of numbness and protection. Little did I know that I was being pursued, sought out, and loved.
In 2016, I entered back into the academic world. My first degree was in education. At the age of 50, I decided to “figure out the grief and God’s allowance or absence in my life” so…I applied at a local university in marriage and family therapy. One of the most beautiful opportunities of this graduate program was having my daughter “walk the grad aisle” with me. The community of this program reminded me that there were more problems to solve than just mine and each of us faced our problems and our decisions with a whole different pair of lenses.
Do You Know About the Enneagram?
When my internship began in graduate school, one of my first clients was a creative, business millennial. During her first session, she asked me if I knew about the Enneagram. She proudly said, “I am a 4 with a 5 wing.” I smiled with as much courage as I could muster and said, “I am hearing about this in my grad program. Tell me what you have learned about yourself through the Enneagram.” What a plethora of information she gave me that day. I have been hooked on the Enneagram ever since.
Why would the Enneagram be a tool to get to know your world? The Enneagram is just a way to help me know myself. And then you may ask, why do I need to know myself? I believe self-knowledge, self-awareness, and self-understanding give us greater potential to access what is the truest about us and offer SUCH beauty to the world. If we do not give ourselves this opportunity then we JUST lose and others lose as well. The loss comes when all we offer ourselves and others is the untrue part of us which is easily available, powerfully injurious, and without purpose and meaning. We spend time living in a small story instead of living out a faithful life with limitless and hopeful options.
The Enneagram is my way of helping myself first – putting on my oxygen mask – so I can help others breathe deeper and with a healthier breath so they can become a different version of their best selves.
The Power of You
I would love to help you navigate who you are and why you do what you do through the ups and downs of life so you can shine a light on the best in you and bring greater understanding and curiosity to the dim light in you. Let’s meet and figure out together what is your potential waiting to shine. You see, I have walked in grief since I was 29 years old. Again, I walked in grief at 49 years old. Later on in 2018, my brother-in-law suddenly passed in a tragic accident. All three deaths were sudden. You better believe I work hard to discover the best in me, others, and God. Certainty, safety, and security can just slip away. While you have the time give the best gift of all to those that mean the most to you. Give them your trueness. Give them the power of YOU.
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Want to accelerate growth and self-awareness? The Enneagram provides a framework to understand why we think, feel and act in certain ways. Applying it through the lens of the Gospel helps us find lasting purpose and transformation in our life, work and relationships. Offering personal coaching, Your Enneagram Coach shows individuals, couples and groups how to apply a Christ-centered Enneagram in every area of life.
At the heart of grief is the attempt to reaffirm or rebuild a world of meaning that has been challenged by loss. Especially when the death is traumatic or premature, or when the relationship with the deceased was complicated or conflicted, the bereaved often need more than simple support and a listening ear. Looking at loss through a wide-angle lens, we also recognize that life confronts us with many unwelcome transitions, whether in the form of lost relationships, careers, health, possibilities, identity, security or even precious possessions. Though these non-death losses are often ambiguous or invisible, they too can shake our taken-for-granted assumptions that life is predictable, the world is just, and people are reliable. Drawing on a large and growing body of bereavement research and clinical scholarship, a Meaning Reconstruction approach to grief therapy gives you the tools to work alongside clients struggling with intense and prolonged grief, as you learn to listen between the lines of the stories they tell themselves and others about the loss, and find the seeds of new beginnings.
The Immanuel Approach describes a counseling prayer method designed to resolve many forms of emotional distress linked to incompletely processed painful experiences. • Immanuel means “God with us,” and this promise is the foundation for all that follows. The Immanuel Approach is to deepen intimacy with God, permanently resolve past pain, and discern God’s ongoing guidance.
MS in Marriage and Family Therapy
The Joshua Center is a faith-based professional counseling center located in Northwest Arkansas dedicated to healing, training, and equipping. The Apprenticeship Training Program was created by The Joshua Center to provide an opportunity to equip laypersons with the skills they need to make a difference in the lives of others.
EFT is a structured approach to couples therapy formulated in the 1980's and has developed alongside the science on adult attachment and bonding to expand our understanding about what is happening in couple relationships and to guide therapists. In the last fifteen years, Dr. Johnson and her colleagues have further developed and refined the model and completed numerous studies. EFT is also used with families and individuals. A substantial body of research outlining the effectiveness of EFT now exists. Research studies find that 70-75% of couples move from distress to recovery and approximately 90% show significant improvements. For more information on EFT research, please see http://www.iceeft.com/index.php/eft-research . The major contraindication for EFT is on-going abuse in the relationship. EFT is being used with many different kinds of couples in private practice, university training centers and hospital clinics and many different cultural groups throughout the world. These distressed couples include partners suffering from disorders such as depression, post traumatic stress disorders and chronic illness."
