WHY AWAKENED?
Your story shapes how you live—but it does not have to keep directing your life.
We can carry beliefs, wounds, and protective patterns without realizing how much they influence our reactions, relationships, boundaries, and choices. Awakened is not about remaining stuck in the past. It is about looking back with purpose—understanding why you do what you do, recognizing what you are ready to leave behind, and choosing what is worth carrying forward into the life and relationships you want. It is a guided opportunity to explore meaningful parts of your story, recognize the narratives and patterns that may be keeping you stuck, and understand what drives reactions such as anger, shutdown, overfunctioning, or disconnection.
From there, you can begin practicing a more grounded, intentional life.
WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE
More than insight—understand your story, reclaim your heart, and live more fully.
- Teaching and guided reflection that help you connect past experiences with the narratives and patterns influencing your life today.
- Opportunities to identify what moves you toward anger, anxiety, avoidance, disconnection, people-pleasing, or other automatic reactions.
- Practical tools to help you regulate, pause, and respond rather than react.
- Guidance for developing healthier boundaries and building deeper relationships.
- Space to reconnect with yourself, recognize where you want to grow, and consider whether the path you are on fits who you are made to be.
YOUR CONFERENCE LEADERS
Meet Stephanie AND PHIL
Stephanie Bessent
Certified Life Coach
Founder, Be Sent Life Restoration
Stephanie is a certified life coach and founder of Be Sent Life Restoration, a nonprofit devoted to helping people recover their hearts, redeem their stories, and live more fully. Drawing from her own redemptive journey and years of walking alongside individuals and couples, she creates a compassionate space for honesty, courage, and meaningful change. At Awakened, Stephanie will help participants connect the teaching to their own lives and move toward deeper relationships, healthier boundaries, and a stronger sense of self.
Phil Herndon, MA, LPC-MHSP, NCC
Phil is a licensed professional counselor, teacher, and longtime guide who helps people recover their hearts and redeem their stories. His work helps individuals explore the emotions, beliefs, and protective patterns shaping their lives so they can move toward greater freedom and deeper connection with God, themselves, and others. At Awakened, Phil brings engaging teaching and a compassionate, practical approach to exploring the story beneath the behavior.
READY TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP?
🗓 September 18-19 🕣 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
(with a one hour break for lunch)
📍 Connect Church, 3351 W 31st St, Lawrence, KS
💵 $235 – Limited to the first 25 participants
Questions? Contact Stephanie be.sentlife@gmail.com