Author: Chen Xing

  • Learning Coaching from the Psalms: Psalm 41

    Learning Coaching from the Psalms: Psalm 41

    Psalms is a book packed with personal feelings and emotions from a psalmist. Most of them are tied to other biblical stories in other parts of the Old Testament, but the Psalms provide a unique insight into the psalmist’s heart. Reading the Psalms is like piercing into the heart of a coaching client who is…

  • Coaching Through Hurt

    Coaching Through Hurt

    Coaching people who are hurt is tricky. When someone opens up about their pain, our instinct is often to share something from our own lives. “I’ve been there too,” we say. We try to connect through our wounds. But as well-meaning as this might be, it’s not always the most helpful thing. In fact, if…

  • The Beauty God Sees Within Us

    The Beauty God Sees Within Us

    I really want to break down and cry. You see, all my days I have been passionate about one thing and one thing alone — to study the Word of God with intense academic rigour. And that is what I have been doing since my rational thought begin to mature. I expounded chapters of the…

  • Coaching and the Way of Non-Doing

    Coaching and the Way of Non-Doing

    When I was still early in my coaching journey, I often found myself stuck in coaching conversations. I felt the weight of responsibility to help the client—sometimes even to understand them completely—before we could make progress. I would listen intently, dissect their words, and search anxiously for a solution or a breakthrough moment. But as…