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Sacred Space: The Power of Being Heard

Jun 10, 2025

One of the most powerful moments in my coaching career was when a client said, “I’ve never said that out loud before.” She sat there stunned – and so did I. Not because it was a shocking confession. But because speaking it – finally – brought healing. Listening Creates Sacred Spaces When we listen well,…

Listening is Love: How True Leadership Starts with Listening

Jun 2, 2025

How True Leadership Starts with Listening When I first started leading, I thought leadership meant making decisions and inspiring people. And yes, those are part of it. But over the years, I learned something far more powerful: true leadership begins with listening. Listening is more than hearing words. It’s creating space where someone feels safe,…

Listening IN

Nov 29, 2023

We hear the client with our ears, a passive activity, but we listen to them and formulate our responses, our powerful questions, and calls to actions that we hear from them and the Holy Spirit. 

The Truth About Church Hurt and Church Wounds Podcast

Jul 10, 2022

The Truth About Church Hurt and Church Wounds with Pamela Mertz | Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast There was a lot of misinformation about who God truly is. There are many wounded and hurt people in the church AND Jesus loves the church. God calls all things to work together for good but God doesn’t…

Receiving Love from Others

Oct 15, 2021

As I continue to walk this valley of the shadow of my mother’s death with the Lord Himself, I am more deeply aware of the love He has for me.  This love, this substance that scholars and theologians have tried to define and describe for all of time, has manifested in so many tangible ways…

Love Never Dies

Oct 8, 2021

It has been a while since I have taken the time to sit and collect my thoughts into print to share.  So much has happened, and it’s been a season like no other in my life.  Like many in the world today, there are multiple crises happening all at one time, and it can be…

Cleaning Your Lens Podcast

Aug 17, 2021

Submitting to the Holy Spirit in Coaching This week I was privileged to be able to speak with Joe McGarry, at Christian Coaches Network International. On this podcast I am talking about how we submit ourselves to the work of the Holy Spirit in coaching. I also give an insight to my upcoming presentation at…

Loving One Another By Listening Well

Mar 30, 2021

This is the second command that Jesus gave to us after He said to Love God.  He stated it several ways and then He gave us the “how” through John’s gospel and epistles.  We can love because we are first loved by the Father.  This is key and I emphasized this as “our part” to…

Love God

Mar 16, 2021

This is a command, given to us by Jesus and we see it all over in Scripture.  The Israelites received the 10 commandments in Exodus 20 and the first command was to honor God, and how to do that.  To have “no other god” before Him. He is it, the One and Only.   The…

Learning More About Love Part 2

Mar 8, 2021

Love is…to be received first… To build upon the newer revelation of Attachment Love, I have been looking through that lens as I read about LOVE in the Bible.  There is so much to learn about how we do this, and what if this newly revealed concept of attachment love is the key to unlock…

Pamela Mertz, life and leadership coach, speaker, and author.

Welcome to my blog!

I have begun this blog to have a place to share some of the things God has shown me throughout my life. This is a small space for reflection and awareness that this isn’t all there is, and that our lives are not just random happenstance.  There is purpose, and reasons, if we pause long enough to look, rest and reflect.  I hope that as I continue to share with you in this blog that you will begin to see the Grand Design in your own life more clearly.