Life coach guides people in crisis

CEDAR HILLS — Donna Weighill was popular at the recent Brigham Young University Campus Education Week, where she taught a series on blended family dynamics.

Because divorce is so rampant, blended families are in the majority, said Weighill, who is a life coach.

It takes an average of five years for a blended family to reach harmony, yet blended families break up, on average, within 5 1/2 years.

"My passion is to stop the epidemic of divorce," Weighill said.

Couples risk divorcing when they stop dating, stop praying together and become out of tune both spiritually and emotionally, she said. Life is not about the trial or the challenge. Rather it's the attitude in coping with life's challenges, she said.

People shouldn't have to face life's challenges alone, Weighill said.

Yet most are between being able to handle their crisis themselves and being so overcome with stress that they need a professional counselor.

"I come in the middle somewhere," she said.

In her business, "Tall Talk Personal Life Coaching," she coaches people to "come to a space of peace."

One of her clients, Michelle, said she went to Weighill to clear emotional blocks that were hurting her ability to manage her money. Her life was in crisis, she said.

She learned not to stress about her financing every day (she was self-employed), but to set just one day a week aside for that.

"It allowed me to focus on life instead of paying bills," she said. "It gave me so much peace. She is helping the law of attraction work in my life."

Weighill has been attracting people with issues all her life.

"It's a gift, something I was born with and have chosen to polish," she said.

She obtained her doctorate from Rio Verde University with campuses in Texas and New Mexico. Another campus is planned for Utah County.

Weighill, however, completed her degree in pastoral counseling — counseling based on the scriptures — through online and distance learning studies.