My name is LaToya — most people call me Coach Toya. I love the Lord. I’m a wife — married to my husband, Jeff, since 2004 — a proud mother and grandmother, and a woman still learning every day to walk in grace and purpose.

When I first wrote this page, coaching was just beginning for me. Since then, the work — and I — have grown. I’ve evolved into an emotional growth and empowerment coach for women: I help women heal what’s heavy, grow through what they’ve lived, and rise into who God called them to be. That growth became EmpowHERed Living Coaching, the EmpowHERed Circle I facilitate each week, and the couples work Jeff and I do together.

This little corner, EmpowHERed by Toya, is where it started. The Refill, Marriage Matters, and Parent Shift were written here first, from my own seasons — before they ever became series. Then the Circle began meeting face to face, week after week, and those writings grew into the series I now facilitate as we walk through them together. In January, the Circle opens wider: I’m launching a virtual EmpowHERed Circle, so women who can’t sit in the room can still have a seat at the table. And the series are becoming workbooks, so you can work through them at your own table, in your own time.

I still believe we were created to serve and to pour into others — I’ve just learned we pour best from a full cup. So welcome. Come just as you are, with your joy, your questions, even your mess. Grab your coffee, grab your journal, and let’s grow.