Heart Chart: Your Journey

Your HEART Chart gently traces your journey of healing, self-compassion, faith, and the growth you’ve experienced even when you thought you were heading without a clear path. This is about learning to see your own life and the journey your heart has been on.

Before you begin, picture yourself right here—not as someone watching from the sidelines, but as someone choosing to walk this chosen path. You’re setting out on a journey, and it isn’t just any road, it was twisting, unexpected, and yet meaningfully beautiful in so many ways you might not have recognized but now have an opportunity to see that now.

You can see your journey has many look out points where you can learn how to look back and see your life through God’s compassionate love and grace that it all has purpose. You will see how every step mattered in the past and moving forward.

Healing from past trauma isn't just about getting through things without feeling happiness; it's about recognizing where you've been, how far you've come, and feeling lovable and deserving despite the pain you endured.

Your HEART Chart, Step by Step

You are not in a race to get to where you think you should be. It is astonishing how many women miss the opportunities to celebrte how far they have come over the years. There’s no finish line or deadline to perfect anything. Journey of the Heart Coaching moves at the pace your heart already has and will be moving forward, one step at a time.

Each week, we pause at different points along your road—not to dwell there, but to sit at your lookout Point and truly understand and find meaning for the life you have lived. We look back, not with regret, but with fresh eyes and new awareness. We talk, we reflect, we celebrate your accomplishments that you may not have noticedand we allow you to feel what you’ve been carrying with courage.

Five Milestones

Milestone One: Fear
We start where fear kept you standing still, where it convinced you that moving forward wasn’t safe. Fear lies to us, but this week we bring those fears into the light, discovering where faith offers another path.

Milestone Two: Self-Criticism
We face the critical voice that says you're not enough, that everyone else has it figured out, and gently step away from its harshness toward the truth—how God sees you, how you were meant to see yourself all along.

Milestone Three: Faith
Faith is the road beneath our feet when we can’t see what's ahead. Sometimes, we only recognize faith in hindsight. This week, we'll revisit moments where faith carried you—even when you weren’t sure it was there. And if faith has felt distant, we'll start gently finding it again.

Milestone Four: Self-Compassion
We often offer kindness and grace easily to others yet withhold it from ourselves. This week, we gently release that burden. We see clearly that self-compassion isn't weakness—it’s the quiet strength that helps us move forward.

Milestone Five: God’s Purpose
Finally, we look back at the road with new clarity. The things that felt random—the detours, the hard stretches—weren’t mistakes. They led you here, precisely to this moment. This week is about seeing clearly how nothing was wasted and how God has been lovingly guiding your life all along.

Each step builds on the last. Each milestone moves us closer to deeper understanding and healing.

Purpose of Your HEART Chart

I want you to walk away with your HEART Chart that provides visual proof—from yourself—that you've changed and grown. The path to healing often happens subtly, even invisibly and you just were not able to allow yourself to accept the grace has for you always-His compassion for you never ends. When you trace back your steps, when you put it all down in writing and look at where you started, you see clearly that moments you thought were breaking you were actually building you. Times when you felt lost were moments when you were truly being guided. It is not a failure if you missed this while it was happening.

Seeing God’s Hand in Your Life

You’ve reached milestones completely unaware of at the time. You were stronger than you realized, had more faith than you believed and felt worthy enough to keep pushing forward.

Traumatic events can cause us to only see the broken pieces shattered around us—God was already using them for your meaningful story, guided by the loving gentle hands of God, even when you didn’t see anything good could come from it. I want to teach you how to see your story with a new loving perspective—to recognize turning points, your profound strength, and places where God guided you, even when you were not fully aware of it.

Shannon’s HEART Chart

What IS A HEART Chart

When you look at my HEART Chart, you're seeing more than dates and colors—you’re seeing my personal journey through deeply emotional and spiritual milestones. The lines represent how intensely I experienced each of these five milestones during significant life events:

• Fear

• Self-Criticism

• Faith

• Self-Compassion

• Understanding God's Purpose

Dates and Letters on the Chart

Each date along the bottom is a significant event in my life—a Landmark. To respect my privacy, these are simply marked by letters (A, B, C, etc.). Typical landmarks in your own chart might include:

• Marriage or Divorce

• Birth of a child

• Loss of a loved one

• Traumatic events or difficult memories

• Significant moves or job changes

• Major achievements or celebrations

• Serious illnesses or healing experiences

Reading the HEART Chart:

• Colored line represents a milestone.

• Higher points indicate greater emotional intensity or impact at the time.

• Lower points show less emotional intensity during those events.

Notice:

• Red (Fear) and Yellow (Self-Criticism) lines rise during challenging times.

• Blue (Faith), Green (Self-Compassion), and Purple (God’s Purpose) lines increase as healing and understanding deepen.

Why Your HEART Chart Matters:

Creating your own HEART Chart helps visually trace your emotional and spiritual journey. You'll clearly see how experiences you thought were breaking you were actually building resilience, clarity, and faith. Moments when you felt lost were gently guiding you toward deeper purpose. As you create your chart, I want you to recognize your own strength, your resilience, and how far you've come. My deepest hope is that you’ll look at your journey with compassion and see clearly the loving presence of God throughout your life.

Warmest Wishes!
Shannon