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Pursuing Abundant Life
RECLAIM
Reclaim the life God created you to live, before pain, loss, fear, or long-held patterns began shaping the story.
Through supported action, practiced skills, and healthy relationships, we begin living from who God says we are. We measure what is changing, tend what is growing, and reclaim the abundant life Jesus came to give.
INTERRUPT
You can't examine a story while it is carrying you. Interruption gives you a place to stand.
We slow the process, create space, and recognize the beliefs, experiences, and familiar voices shaping our response.
CHALLENGE
A familiar story can still distort the truth. Challenge gives you a clearer view.
We examine what happened, what it awakened within us, and how our response became a pattern. Then we bring that pattern into the light and begin renewing how we think, respond, and move forward.
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Driven by "Why"
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My story has always circled the same question: Why does one person walk through the fire and find a way forward, while another struggles to move? Every person enters that fire carrying a different history, different wounds, and different support.
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For more than two decades, I have walked alongside people facing trauma, addiction, homelessness, broken relationships, and other life changing struggles. I kept asking: Is real change happening? Can it be seen in how we live, choose, love, and impact the people around us?
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I believe we are called to live an abundant story, one that bears fruit in our own lives and in the lives of others. That belief became Next Wise Choice: a practical way to understand what keeps us stuck and turn what we learn into lasting, visible change.
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Your story is still being written. Come discover what is shaping it, interrupt the patterns keeping you stuck, and begin with your next wise choice.
The Greenhouse
A greenhouse provides a protected environment for healthy growth. That image shapes our framework. Jesus often used soil, seeds, growth, and harvest to reveal how transformation happens.
PREPARING THE SOIL - PATTERNS
Lasting change begins with healthy soil. Our PATTERNS of Self-Care provide the foundation for growth. When these practices are neglected, growth stalls and old patterns return.
PLANTING THE SEEDS - PRINCIPLES
Change grows when we understand why our choices break down. The Principles plant seeds of truth that challenge old patterns and prepare us to choose wisely.
TENDING FOR GROWTH - LIFE SKILLS
The Life Skills Matrix gives us a clear process: regulate our response, examine what is true and within our control, then solve what can be changed and adapt to what cannot.
HARVEST - ABUNDANT LIVING
The harvest is abundant living: no longer ruled by the past, fully using our gifts, and bearing fruit in the lives of others.
If your story doesn't feel abundant, there is a reason why.
Click the images below to follow the progression we have all experienced.
From Abundance to a Renewed Mind
Jesus offered abundant life.
Life's wounds diminished it.
God designed a way back.
Designed for Abundance
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John 10:10b
Jesus came that we may have life abundantly.
Abundance Was Stolen
John 10:10a
The thief came to steal, kill, and destroy.
Seen with Compassion
Jesus sees us as harassed, helpless, and without a shepherd.
Matthew 9:36
We Tried Healing
God is concerned that our efforts are not sufficient for deep healing.
Jeremiah 6:14
The Inner Battle We Face
Our struggle is that our heart and mind are battling at every choice we face.
Romans 7:15, 23
A Renewed Mind
The work is simple in concept, but hard in practice. It's doable.
Romans 12:2; 2 Cor. 10:5
Next Wise Choice exists where faith and neuroscience intersect.
With a proven framework, we can show you what is broken and how it gets fixed.
The Next Wise Choice model works. I use it in my personal and professional life. It is life changing.
Trish Mull-Short
Community-Based Case Manager
Jennifer Attema
Founder/Director Freedom House
Carole Bebout
Greenhouse Participant
Next Wise Choice has become the foundation for healing at Dorothy's House in Des Moines.
Kellie Markey
Founder Dorothy's House
The Greenhouse has given us the tools needed to teach the participants in our home.
The Greenhouse came my way during a difficult season of my life, giving me clarity. I recommend it to everyone.
Becky Wehrman-Andersen
Hazardous Materials Consulting, Inc.
Each lesson is creative, thought-provoking and has measurable, effective steps.
The Greenhouse lays a solid foundation to begin understanding why you do what you do.
Bob Larson
Adult & Teen Challenge of the Midlands
Mainstream Living
Next Wise Choice provided structure, measurable outcomes, and individually tailored support that strengthened recovery, self-direction, and long-term success.
Wherever you're starting from, there's a path here
You're on the front lines with people in crisis every day. This framework gives your team a shared language for understanding behavior, staying regulated under pressure, and building resilience into the work itself.
You've built something from nothing, but growth keeps stalling in the same place. Often it's not a strategy problem, it's a pattern problem. An old belief is quietly running the business from behind the scenes.
Something keeps repeating, the same argument, the same shutdown, the same disappointment. You don't need another surface-level fix. You need to find what's actually driving it and practical solutions to address it.