Hi! I’m Amy Riordan. I help women receive healing for their hearts, break free from patterns that have kept them stuck, grow in intimacy with Jesus, and experience the freedom to live as the person they were created to be.
I’m not a huge picture person, but I love the one above, because it’s truly “me”. I’m passionate about what I do, because many years ago Jesus started healing my heart and setting me free in many different areas of my life. Numbing my emotions and shoving everything down only worked for so long, and everything in my heart and life seemed to come up to the surface all at once. It wasn’t pretty.
These were places I had tried to keep hidden, because I felt so much shame. I was so grateful to realize that Jesus was beginning to heal places in my heart that I never knew could be healed.
A couple of years later, I started publicly sharing my story, and this eventually turned into a ministry (Walking in Freedom Ministries) where I spent 15 amazing years ministering to women wrestling with with their sexuality and sexual strongholds, along with the shame and secrecy that often accompanies this. I wrote 2 books (Longing for Intimacy & All of You) to help women in these areas. You can find them here if you would like to check them out.
Several years later, I started to notice that I had been spending so much time trying to be who I thought I was supposed to be, but I was exhausting myself in the process. This was happening in just about every area of my life: friendships, parenting, marriage, ministry, and more…
I started to realize that there was so much more for me than being set free from my struggles. This was only part of it. I was also created to have deep intimacy with Jesus and to have joy, peace, rest, and freedom in knowing who I was created to be.
This started me on a whole new journey of learning the way God wired me and ultimately being free to be me. This is where my passion to start my coaching practice came from.
As women, many of us can spend years trying to become who others expect us to be.
We can sometimes feel like we lost our voice. We can become trapped in people-pleasing, performance, and the pressure to meet everyone else’s expectations. Somewhere along the way, we can forget who we truly are (or realize we never knew who we were in the first place).
Maybe the season of your life has shifted, and nothing quite seems to fit anymore. This has left you wondering who you are and what you even want.
Perhaps you’ve struggled with something for years, and you haven’t known who to talk to about it.
You’ve prayed about it and fought against it. Maybe it’s left you feeling discouraged, ashamed, stuck, or questioning whether freedom is even possible.
I want you to know there is hope. There is freedom. Jesus can heal your heart and set you free from what you’re wrestling with.
But that’s not all…
You also don’t have to spend another year wondering who you really are.
You can also have the intimate connection with Jesus that you have been wanting. They go together.
Freedom, purpose, and true connection with Jesus and with others are possible.
I’d be honored to walk alongside you on this journey.
I encourage you to check out my Free to Be Me Blog and my podcast, where you can find articles on topics such as identity, freedom, comparison, heart healing, rest, and more. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or would like to find out more about working with me.
Amy Riordan
Free to Be Me Coaching