Centerline
At Soul Force Strategies, we believe the most powerful life is one lived in alignment—with your values, your purpose, and your deeper self. Centerline is where strategic insight meets soulful reflection. Here, you'll find thoughtful articles, personal reflections, and practical tools to help you lead with clarity, live with intention, and grow from the inside out. Whether you’re navigating change, refining your identity, or reaching for your next level, Centerline is your space to recalibrate, realign, and rise.
Living Authentically: Confidence as Congruence
Confidence isn’t about perfection — it’s about congruence. The final post in the Authentic by Design series explores what happens when your inner world and outer life finally align — when confidence becomes peace, and authenticity becomes freedom.
The Courage to Stand Apart
Authenticity often costs comfort, but it’s the only path to real confidence. This post explores the courage it takes to stand apart — to choose integrity over approval and alignment over acceptance.
Beautifully Broken: Strength in the Cracks
We all carry cracks — the heartbreaks, failures, and losses that shape who we are. This post explores how to find beauty in the broken, inspired by the Japanese art of Kintsugi: becoming more radiant because of the break, not despite it.
Confidence Without Comparison
We lose confidence when we measure our worth against others’ highlight reels. This post explores how to release comparison — both on social media and in life — and find confidence through lived experience, alignment, and gratitude for your own design.
Designed Differently: The Power of Authentic Alignment
You were never meant to blend in. You were designed differently — intentionally, intricately, on purpose. Real confidence begins when you stop performing and start aligning; when who you are, what you value, and how you live finally match. This is where peace replaces striving — and authenticity becomes your quiet power.
Be Ye Doers of the Word
It’s not enough to know the truth—we have to live it.
When Jesus said, “Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,” He invited us to stop watching others’ growth and start doing our own work. This is the heart of discipleship—and the difference between being a librarian of goodness and a warrior of light.
Love Is a Choice: The Power of Commitment
He proposed three weeks after we met—not because we were ready, but because we were willing. Thirty-two years later, we’ve learned that love isn’t sustained by ease but forged through the daily choice to stay. Commitment, communication, and endurance have turned our imperfect beginning into something deeply strong and real.
Faith Through Doubt: Wrestling Toward Deeper Strength
Wrestling with God is not rebellion—it’s relationship. Doubt doesn’t destroy faith; it deepens it. The refiner’s fire is not punishment—it’s preparation.
Lessons from 19 Moves: What Reinvention Has Taught Me About Identity
After nineteen moves — across states, countries, and continents — I’ve learned that reinvention isn’t the opposite of identity; it’s how identity is revealed. Each transition strips away what’s familiar and invites us to choose who we’ll become next. This is what nineteen moves have taught me about courage, belonging, and the quiet art of starting over.
Integration — Becoming Who You Choose to Be
Integration is not perfection. It’s the moment when what you know becomes how you live. Every day, ask yourself: Who do I choose to be today? Then live your answer.
Future Self as Compass
Identity isn’t static — it’s a compass pointing toward who you’re becoming. By connecting to your future self, you align today’s choices with tomorrow’s vision. Through practices like the Heroic Identity exercise, WOOP, and visioning, you can turn aspiration into direction and live each day guided by the person you’re meant to be.
Grace for the Gaps: What It Means to Rest in God’s Grace When We Fall Short
We all have gaps between who we are and who we’re striving to become. God’s grace doesn’t erase those gaps — it fills them. Grace meets us where we fall short, empowers us to rise again, and turns our striving into worship.
Integrity & Alignment
Integrity is alignment in action—the moment your choices, energy, and focus reflect who you’ve chosen to become. It’s not perfection, but wholeness practiced daily.
The Stress Test of Identity
Crisis doesn’t create identity—it reveals it. When pressure rises, who you truly are steps into view. Stress isn’t the enemy; it’s the forge that shapes you into who you’ve chosen to become.
Habits as Identity Builders
Our habits are not just actions — they’re the daily brushstrokes that paint our future selves. Each small choice is a vote for the person we are becoming. Align your habits with your virtues, and you’ll transform not just what you do, but who you are.
Faith Over Familiar: Stepping Out in Trust When God Calls You Into the Unknown
After 30 years of military life, I’m once again standing on the edge of the unknown — trusting that God will light the next step even when I can’t see the path ahead. Faith over familiar means letting go of certainty and clinging instead to the One who guides us through every transition.
Identity Anchored in Virtue
When your identity is anchored in virtues, life feels steady—even when circumstances shift. Virtues like courage, patience, and integrity become the inner roots that guide how you think, speak, and act. They shape not just who you are, but how you show up in every relationship, workplace, and moment.
Identity Is Created, Not Found
We don’t find ourselves — we forge ourselves. Identity isn’t buried treasure waiting to be discovered; it’s a masterpiece we sculpt one choice at a time. Every decision, every habit, every small act of courage is a vote for who we are becoming.
The Sermon on the Mount: A Blueprint for Soul Force
Two thousand years ago, on a hillside overlooking the Sea of Galilee, Jesus offered a radical invitation—to live with strength rooted in love, not domination; humility, not ego. The Sermon on the Mount isn’t just a sermon—it’s a spiritual blueprint for living with Soul Force. Through its timeless teachings on humility, integrity, forgiveness, and faith, we discover how to anchor ourselves in divine power and become light-bearers in a fractured world.
Weathering Storms with Soul Force
Life doesn’t always go as planned. Recently, I found myself in a hospital bed facing unexpected procedures and complications. In the past, I might have spiraled into fear or victimhood. But this time, Heroic helped me hold my centerline. Instead of wallowing, I chose antifragility—turning the storm into strength.
