{"id":3504,"date":"2017-09-21T23:18:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/?page_id=3504"},"modified":"2023-09-02T01:46:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T01:46:12","slug":"brenda-yoder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/?page_id=3504","title":{"rendered":"Brenda Yoder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b>Brenda Yoder<\/b><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"559\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"278\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/brendayoder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Brenda-Headshot-2017-1.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/brendayoder.com\">https:\/\/brendayoder.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Contact Brenda:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>yoderbl@gmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>BIO:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brenda is a national speaker, author, life coach, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor whose passion is encouraging others when life doesn\u2019t fit the storybook image.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jim Daly says her newest book, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fledge-Launching-Your-Without-Losing\/dp\/1513802364\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fledge: Launching Your Kids Without Losing Your Mind<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has \u201csensitive, biblical wisdom for moms who want to launch their kids well.\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She\u2019s been featured in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chicken Soup for the Soul <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">books<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Reboot Your Life <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Confident and Curvy; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington Post, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and has a mental health column in her local paper<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Her first book, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Balance-Busyness-Not-Doing-All\/dp\/1511966750\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Balance, Busyness, and Not Doing It All<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> released in 2015. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brenda is also former teacher and school counselor and was twice awarded the Touchstone Award for teachers. Her ministry,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/brendayoder.com\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life Beyond the Picket Fence<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, can be found at<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendayoder.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">brendayoder.com <\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0where she authentically writes about faith, life, and family beyond the storybook image. In addition to a private counseling and coaching practice, Brenda speaks at women\u2019s retreats, business events, MOPS groups, keynotes, and teaches and trains on a variety of mental and behavioral health topics. She is a certified trainer by the Faith Trust Institute and trains and advocates for child abuse and sexual assault prevention. Brenda has been a service provider for families in foster care, domestic violence situations, and has worked face with children and teens for over twenty-five years. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A mentor to women and young adults, Brenda is also a wife and mom of four children, ranging from teens to adults, and lives on a farm in Shipshewana, Indiana. You can connect with Brenda on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrendaYoderLMHC\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter,<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brendayoderspeaker\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/brendayoderlmhc\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pinterest<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/brendayoderspeaks\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda Yoder https:\/\/brendayoder.com Contact Brenda:\u00a0 yoderbl@gmail.com BIO:\u00a0 Brenda is a national speaker, author, life coach, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor whose passion is encouraging others when life doesn\u2019t fit the storybook image. Jim Daly says her newest book, Fledge: Launching Your Kids Without Losing Your Mind has \u201csensitive, biblical wisdom for moms who want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9798,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3504\/revisions\/9798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}