An 8-week LIVE online group coaching cohort where you receive spiritual direction and learn body-based tools to help you heal and reclaim who you are.
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Register Now →"Tender & Fierce gave me rhythms in my daily life that allow me to show up fully as the woman I was created to be, comfortable in my own skin, and living above the chaos that comes with life."
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We all begin with a heart that is soft and fully alive. But life has a peculiar way of hardening it.
Perhaps you find yourself:
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Wrestling with irritation and anger towards those you love most
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Struggling with overwhelm under the weight of all the things you are responsible forÂ
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Becoming hard and fierce in your closest relationships
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Wishing you could experience joy and contentment in the small moments of life
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Longing for a simpler, less pressured day-to-day
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Wanting to reconnect to the authentic, creative, and compassionate woman God created you to be
And then we grow apathetic. It's hard to maintain a soft, loving heart, and establish firm boundaries when everything feels so "efforty".Â
Friend, this was my story. And it's the story of so many women I meet today.Â
But once I learned to teach my body to release the accumulated pain in the presence of Jesus, I began to reclaim who I was made to be, tender and fierce.
Tender and Fierce will unite you with a community of authentic woman, give you the tools you need to rediscover your tender heart and gently release the layers that have kept it hidden and hardened. It is my prayer that you learn to reconnect your body to the tender fierceness that comes from living fully alive in Jesus.
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"Tender & Fierce will positively impact my family for generations. Despite growing up as a pastor’s kid, I had never learned any of this before, and it has already become the most crucial part of my walk with God. I went from hearing God’s voice every six months or so, to hearing Him every single day."
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"I am so grateful to the Lord for the tender & fierce heart of Christi Straub. With a rich capacity to see into the hearts of others, she is able to guide using Biblical wisdom and the Lord’s design of the human body to places of healing in our lives. It is her deep empathy and genuine spirit that fosters a beautiful trust to make this opportunity possible. I now have knowledge and tools to implement daily as I continue to walk forward on my journey and the Lord’s plan for my life."
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"This experience was unlike any I’ve ever had before! The way Christi gently led us through each session was Spirit-led and spoke directly to my soul. I see my emotional world so differently, and have become more in tune with things that I was not aware were causing me to remain in a life of stress and overwhelm. I am so grateful!"
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What Tender & Fierce Alumni Say
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"For me to experience life with more joy and fullness and deeper identity, and be the mom and wife that God intends me to be is worth more than words. Bless you guys. Thank you so much."
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"I remember reading the Tender & Fierce Cohort description and thinking that it was written entirely for me. It felt like it was exactly what I needed in my life, and it was! Since taking the course, I haven’t stopped talking about it with family and friends. God used Christi in phenomenal ways, as usual, to lead me deeper in my faith walk. Tender & Fierce gave me countless somatic and visual tools to help regulate my nervous system, in addition to seeing Jesus there with me during the exercises.
This has been imperative in my life personally, as I had a surprise health scare pop up during the course. I missed a few of the sessions due to being in the hospital, but I used many of the tools that Christi taught us to help get me through the fears and scares that my mind and body were facing in those hospital moments. I use her techniques while driving, while relaxing at night before bed, and at many other little moments throughout the day. Tender & Fierce was such a gift, and I wish that every one of Jesus’ precious daughters could take it. Thank you Christi for helping 'bind the brokenhearted and proclaim freedom for the captives!'"
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"Coming from an old Pentecostal background, I had a lot of unlearning to do, and Tender & Fierce helped me to do that. I had a deep fear for God in that I always thought He was angry at me for not praying & reading the Bible how I was taught to. The idea of visualizing Jesus coming to sit with and talk to me was absurd.
Tender & Fierce has helped me to break the religious ideology and make me realize that GOD LOVES ME and He desires to sit with and talk to me daily. I now have a voice to speak up for myself and be present in my own life so I can show up as my authentic self. I now know that I can be Tender & Fierce all at the same time :) Thank you doesn't seem like enough to say to Christi. May God continue to pour into you as you pour into others and make us disciples of Jesus."
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"The topics and techniques covered in this group coaching cohort transformed my life. Through Christi’s coaching and discipling, I now walk in new freedom. I’ve been filled with grace to love others and experience the goodness of God."
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"Tender & Fierce served as a catalyst of change in my life. It started in me a new way of interacting with God and understanding my body. It helped me learn to slow down enough to soak in the beauty around me and to be fully present."
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"I joined Tender and Fierce during a particularly challenging season of motherhood: physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I’ve been a Christian since I was young but prior to Tender & Fierce, had never heard Jesus' voice or really knew how to feel the love and peace of Jesus that other Christians talked about. I'm so grateful Christi taught me how to pray and how to experience Jesus’ presence, guidance and love in the midst of normal everyday life. I've been freed from much of the baggage I was carrying for far too long!
Even though most of my external circumstances haven’t changed, I’m more tuned in to my body and have many practical tools to cope with stress now! Tender and Fierce has made me sturdier, more joyful, and more present and playful with my kids and husband. I’m deeply grateful to Christi for the freedom I’ve found through Tender and Fierce and can’t wait for a Tender and Fierce retreat!"
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"Through Tender and Fierce, a paradigm shift occurred, helping me discover my true identity. I had always thought I was an anxious person. Christi helped me realize this was my go-to coping mechanism of self-protection. We walked through several tools to begin releasing the stuck survival energy that had become my habit.
Tender and Fierce helped plug me into my superpower of connecting with the Holy Spirit. It has been a gamechanger! The relational connection has transformed how I show up and love others. It has enabled me to experience God’s love and operate from my core. To come home and know who I am has allowed me to begin walking in my God-given authority and be fully alive in Jesus. Thank you, Christi—I am eternally grateful!"
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"Tender and Fierce has introduced me to a nurturing and cherishing way to relate to myself. Many struggles I had faced beforehand, stemmed from an inability to relate to myself in a nurturing way. To me, Christi was a role model to do things differently, which also gave me an idea of who the caring God of all comfort is. I watched, I heard, I saw, and experienced new possibilities of ease and calm I could not have imagined.The somatic exercises incorporating the body gave me a new set of tools to navigate everyday life more smoothly. Instead of just tensing up without end I curiously listen in and apply the tools. Thank you!"
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A Special Note from Christi
Most women I know struggle to find their stride in the roles they walk in - wife, mom, daughter, entrepreneur, business woman, homeschool mom, friend, fill in your blanks. We want to live fully - and be excellent in all we do, but those roles add a heavy weight.
And somewhere along the way, we get lost. We lose the little girl inside us and our true authentic self gets covered up by imposters that have helped us fit in and succeed. That’s where I found myself, after two babies, trying to balance work and motherhood, feeling lost and wondering where Christi had gone – her lighthearted joy and passion with it.
It sent me on a journey of healing, rediscovery, vulnerability, and surrounding myself with a circle of accountability, friendship, and wise counsel.Â
Now, years later, that’s the place from where my own coaching
Aside from my husband and precious children, coaching women has become my greatest honor, investment, and joy. The sweetness of these coaching relationships isn't anything I do per se, but because it’s Holy Spirit led, driven by prayer, and so it becomes a sacred space. Seeing women walk away with free and tender hearts and full voice is true joy.Â
If you desire growth and are willing to do the work, you’re my people. Come with a teachable spirit and curiosity. I'll take you from there.Â
I know God has a specific purpose and mission for your life – and my passion is to come alongside you to ensure you walk in the fullness of it – free, full of joy, confident in your calling, famous at home first, and not held back by insecurities and old wounds. There is nothing more beautiful than a woman who is freely and confidently living in her calling.Â
I know God sends people specifically and purposefully, so if you feel this is the right season and fit for your next step of the journey – know you have been covered in prayer already.Â
It’s my greatest honor to hold part of your life story. Â
With tender & fierce love,
Christi
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