From the moment Kathryn enters a room, you can feel it - anticipation - excitement - a sense that something wonderful just might happen! And it does! Her genuine transparency comes through in the insightful examples she gives her audiences as she helps them understand the basic principles of how each of us is uniquely different from one another. She inspires an "Aha!" moment that changes how we view life and other people, empowering us to live our lives according to the law of "love your neighbor as yourself."

As the mother of five sons and married to her husband Steve, since 1978, she has had plenty of opportunities to practice what she preaches. Not only is she an expert tear wiper, sliver remover, frequent emergency room visitor, and warden, she has run a successful bridal business for over 20 years. She now owns and operates an innovative jewelry business, which offers jewelry pieces made with the 12 stones of the New Jerusalem in each design.

Kathryn is a graduate of the CLASSeminar (Christian Leaders, Authors, Speakers Services). As a Certified Personality Trainer, she speaks to community groups, colleges, businesses, and churches across the country.

She is famous for her Personality Plus Home Parties. If you live in the St. Louis, Missouri area, invite her to come to your house and share about the Personalities with friends and family!

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POPULAR SPEAKING TOPICS

Creating a Personality that's all Your Own

There's no end of the tests, terms and systems available on the open market today that help us understand ourselves. Which one is the best? It's a little like choosing exercise equipment. "The best one is" the one you'll use. I have found most people have taken the DISCTM or Meyers Briggs Type IndicatorTM at some time in their life, but when asked, "Which type are you?" they have to stop and think about it, "Well, I'm an Extrovert, so I think that letter is E, or maybe it's an I; I'm not sure." At that point, we have missed the whole point. If the information is too confusing, we won't use it. Information we don't apply to our lives today ends up in tomorrow's trash. The Personality Plus system is easy to apply today, so our lives can be changed by tomorrow (well, maybe a day or two after tomorrow).

There is true freedom when we understand the forces that motivate our actions and reactions. Personality Plus takes the process deeper than categorization; we start understanding what we can and cannot change about our personalities (strengths and struggles) and learn to identify our emotional needs (why we do what we do). The best part is: understanding how to meet the emotional needs of others, so we can promote emotionally healthy relationships. Even if we only apply a little bit of the information, we will see changes for the better in no time. (Each of these sessions can be a stand alone talk of 45 - 90 minutes or they can be linked into multiple sessions. Great for corporate team building & conference break-out sessions.)

Understanding What Makes Us Tick (Putting the Pieces Together)

In this session you will explore the four basic Personality traits: Popular Sanguine, Perfect Melancholy, Powerful Choleric and Peaceful Phlegmatic. Having a better understanding of how each basic Personality behaves and responds to life, helps relieve the personal offense you feel around certain people who are not like us.

Understanding Our Emotional Needs

Have you ever gotten a gift you didn't like? What did you do with it? Chances are you did one of three things: Gave it away, threw it away, or put it away. Did you know we do the same thing with the emotional gifts we give each other? In this life-changing look at "why we do what we do." we will discover how to give emotional gifts worth giving and keeping.

Understanding Personality Strengths and Struggles

Have you ever been lost at the mall? The first thing you do is look for the map and find the "You are here" sticker. Understanding your personality strengths and struggles gives us a starting point when it comes to personal growth and maturity. Learn how to identify our unique Personality development style.

Communicating Personality Style

Getting your point across takes more than just words: It takes understanding how others hear what is being said. This session will help us learn how to become "emotionally bilingual."

Approaching God

How do you view God? As a military general, a loving daddy, someone you can depend on, or a distant god with Zeus-type qualities? This session helps us understand our spiritual Personality strengths and struggles.

Personalities According to Winnie the Pooh

Who better than the lovable gang at Pooh's Corner to help us understand the basic blends of the four Personalities? In this fun session, we will explore the different combinations of the Personalities blends.

The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come."

Years as a bridal consultant prepared Kathryn for her current speaking and business venture. Her company Stones of Glory produces beautiful jewelry containing the twelve stones mentioned in the book of Revelation describing the New Jerusalem. In the Old Testament a piece of jewelry was always given as a betrothal promise. We can look at this jewelry as our betrothal promise from Jesus.

"I go to prepare a place for you...I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am." John 14:2-4 NIV

In this talk Kathryn shares the spiritual attribute each stone represents and shows how these qualities are to be "put on" as bridal garments. We would never think of walking down the aisle to meet our bridegroom clothed only in our undergarments, likewise, our goal as Christians is to be clothed and ready when the wedding supper of the Lamb is announced.

"Let us be glad and rejoice and give him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready." Rev. 19:7

This presentation can easily be made into a "Wedding" theme for a spring Mother and Daughter banquet or "The King Calls His Bride" overnighter; including a fashion show of wedding dresses past and present, a towering wedding cake to be enjoyed by all, and ending with an invitation to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb!

As an overnight women's retreat, there is enough time for everyone to make a special piece of jewelry for herself.

Stilted Love

Many people have grown up in homes where love was conditional and acceptance was as likely to happen as having a wish granted by a star. Such was Kathryn's childhood. Even when she asked her grandfather to make her a pair of stilts out of scrap lumber he exclaimed, "That's good wood, it can't be wasted on stilts!" Her life long message came through loud and clear--she was not even worth two pieces of wood. In her testimony, Kathryn tells of how she finally came to embrace God's passionate love for her, through the memory of two pieces of scrap wood. By accepting God's love and rejecting the lies spoken over her, she allowed God to heal the deep wounds modern psychology had not been able to fix. (25-30 minutes) Great for Christian Women's Club, luncheons, banquets, retreat or conference break-out session.

But Lord, I Was Happy Shallow: Lessons Learned in the Deep Places

There's nothing funny about finding out you're pregnant with your fifth son, that is, unless it's Kathryn telling the story! This heartfelt book shares stories of how God's grace and mercy sustain us through the deep places. A "must read," but start on page 40! (You can guess who wrote this contributing story!)

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