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Michael Lowe Coaching, LLC offers life, career & mental health coaching services virtually to clients in the Birmingham AL Metro area & throughout the US.

Michael is a Certified Professional Life Coach and a Certified Sexual Addiction Recovery Coach.

10/05/2026

Feeling stuck can be especially painful when the choice seems clear, but neither option feels safe.

He wants to leave the job that is draining him, but fears what losing that paycheck could mean for his family.

She wants to set a boundary, but fears the distance it could create with someone she loves.

A person can want change and still be afraid of what it might cost. When every option carries a risk, it’s easy to wait for a choice that feels completely safe.

That kind of certainty may never come. Clarity can begin with naming both sides: what they hope will change, and what they fear could happen.

If you’re caught between wanting change and fearing the cost, message me to schedule a complimentary 30-minute conversation. We can talk through what feels stuck and what a realistic next step might look like.

09/28/2026

The dock ends. The water doesn’t.

Some life transitions feel like that. Something familiar has ended or changed, but life keeps stretching ahead without showing you exactly what comes next.

An aging parent begins to rely on you. Your child grows more independent. Retirement changes the shape of your days. A relationship ends or changes. Some shifts are chosen. Others arrive without asking.

You can miss the life you knew without wanting to go back to it. You can love the people who need you and feel worn down by what they need. You can keep showing up while still wondering where you fit in everything that’s changed.

That doesn’t mean you’re ungrateful or failing to adjust. It means the change has reached into your routines, relationships, and sense of who you are.

You don’t have to see the whole way forward before you begin. Start by naming what has changed, what you’re grieving, and what support you need now.

What part of a life transition has been hardest for you to put into words?

If you’re carrying a change that’s hard to sort through, message me. We can use a complimentary 30-minute conversation to talk about what’s weighing on you and identify one next step.

09/07/2026

The status quo has one powerful advantage: it lets us pretend we are not making a decision.

Something does not have to be good to become normal. It only has to remain unchanged long enough.

At first, we notice the problem. When nothing changes, we begin adapting to it. Expectations get lowered. Certain conversations are avoided. More energy goes into working around the problem than addressing it.

Eventually, familiar starts to feel permanent. We stop asking whether the situation is acceptable and start explaining why nothing can be done about it.

Change requires a decision, and decisions carry risk. The possible consequences of changing are easy to imagine. The cost of staying the same is usually paid so gradually that we stop noticing it.

At some point, “this is just how things are” stops describing the situation and starts protecting it from change.

What has become so familiar that you no longer question whether it should continue?

09/02/2026

Knowing what needs to change is not the same as knowing how to change it.

You can read the books, listen to the podcasts, pray for direction, and still find yourself repeating the same patterns.

Insight may help you recognize what is wrong. It does not always show you how to respond differently when the same fears, emotions, and circumstances return.

That is where coaching can help.

I provide Christian-based coaching for people navigating relationship struggles, unhealthy patterns, difficult decisions, grief, emotional exhaustion, identity questions, and major life transitions. I also offer specialized support for men struggling with compulsive s*xual behavior, secrecy, and shame.

Coaching with me is not about judgment or easy answers. It is a private, supportive space to understand what is driving the pattern, identify the choices available to you, and take practical steps aligned with your faith and values.

Sessions are virtual and available during evening hours.

I offer a complimentary 30-minute introductory conversation so you can ask questions, discuss what is weighing on you, and decide whether coaching is the right next step.

If you are ready to begin, send me a message.

08/31/2026

Sometimes a man is not chasing s*x.

He is chasing relief.

Relief from feeling rejected, powerless, anxious, or numb.

For a few minutes, he feels different.

When the relief fades, the original pain remains, now joined by secrecy and shame. With even more to escape, he may return to the behavior.

Stopping matters. But if he does not learn how to face what hurts, the urge to escape remains.

Recovery asks two questions:

“How do I stop?”

“What am I trying not to feel?”

If this feels familiar, you do not have to call it an addiction before asking for help. I help men understand both the behavior and what is driving it.

Message me to schedule a confidential, complimentary first conversation.

08/24/2026

Do you know an escape artist?

They don’t need handcuffs, a locked box or a hidden door.

They have learned how to escape without going anywhere.

Work can be an escape. So can scrolling, shopping, eating, drinking, sleeping or staying busy fixing everyone else’s problems.

From the outside, an escape artist may look productive, responsible and dependable.

But there is a difference between enjoying a distraction and needing one to avoid yourself.

What are they trying not to face?

Maybe it is grief they have never allowed themselves to feel. Maybe it is conflict, loneliness, disappointment, a difficult decision or a truth they are not ready to admit.

Escapism works for a while. That is why people keep doing it.

It creates enough noise to quiet the discomfort, but it never resolves what caused the discomfort. When the distraction ends, the problem is still there.

Do you know an escape artist?

Or is the escape artist you?

If the answer is uncomfortable, message or text me, and let’s create a new escape plan: one that helps you get free from the need to escape.

08/21/2026

Have you ever stumped your toe and it didn’t hurt?

Probably not.

Pain has a way of demanding our attention. We stop. We react. We look to see what happened.

But when the pain is emotional, we often do the opposite.

We say we’re fine.

We stay busy.

We push it down and try to move on as if nothing happened.

Maybe we were taught that showing emotion was a sign of weakness. Maybe we’re afraid that if we acknowledge what we feel, it will take over.

But ignored feelings don’t disappear.

They come out in our tone, our impatience, our distance from others and in reactions that seem much bigger than the moment in front of us.

Feelings aren’t always accurate. They can be influenced by fear, assumptions or wounds from the past. But we can’t determine what is true and what isn’t while pretending the feeling isn’t there.

Acknowledging a feeling doesn’t mean agreeing with everything it tells us.

Expressing it doesn’t mean giving it control.

It means being honest enough to face what is happening inside us so we can begin working through it.

You don’t need to feel ashamed of what you feel, and you don’t have to let it determine what you do next.

But you do have to stop pretending it isn’t there.

Have you ever ignored a feeling only to have it show up somewhere else?

08/19/2026

“Nothing is wrong.”

Then why does everything feel different?

The conversations are shorter. The tone has changed. Affection doesn’t feel natural anymore.

One person knows what happened. The other is left trying to figure it out.

Sometimes a person gets hurt but doesn’t talk about it. They may be avoiding conflict. They may not know how to bring it up. They may assume the other person should already know.

So they continue saying everything is fine while their behavior communicates something very different.

Even if the silence isn’t meant as punishment, it still leaves someone living with consequences they don’t understand.

Most people will read this and think of someone who has done it to them.

The harder question is: Have you ever done it to someone else?

If hurt is changing how you treat someone, the conversation is already happening. It is just happening through distance, tone, and silence instead of words.

Speaking up doesn’t have to start a fight. In a safe relationship, it can sound like:

“When this happened, it hurt me. I don’t want it to create distance between us, so I need to talk about it.”

It may not go perfectly, but it gives the other person a chance to understand what changed and respond.

Often, people know what they need to say. They are just afraid of saying it badly or making things worse.

That’s where coaching can help.

If there’s a conversation you’ve been avoiding, send me a private message. We can work through how to start it.

The first conversation is complimentary.

08/17/2026

At 17, he thought he would outgrow it.

At 70, he may still be hiding it.

A lot can happen between those two ages. He may graduate, build a career, get married, raise a family, become active in church, and earn the respect of people around him.

All the while, he may keep believing that the next stage of life will finally make the struggle disappear.

When I get older, I’ll have more self-control.

When I get married, I won’t need this anymore.

When life settles down, I’ll be able to stop.

When my faith becomes stronger, I’ll finally get past it.

But getting older does not automatically bring freedom.

Marriage does not cure s*xual addiction. Neither does a successful career, a busy life, church involvement, or another birthday.

Years can pass while a man continues waiting to become someone who no longer struggles.

There is no age when this is too early to take seriously. There is also no age when it is too late to address.

A 17-year-old does not have to wait until the pattern follows him into adulthood.

A 70-year-old does not have to decide he has carried it too long to change.

Time alone does not create recovery. Something has to interrupt the waiting.

I offer confidential, one-on-one s*xual addiction recovery coaching for men who are ready to stop waiting and begin addressing the struggle.

If you have been hoping age, marriage, maturity, or another season of life would make this disappear, send me a private message. We can talk about what the next step might look like.

And if this isn’t your struggle, someone you know may be quietly living it. You may never know who needs to read this.

08/10/2026

Have you promised yourself that yesterday would be the last time, only to find yourself back in the same cycle today?

You may have learned how to hide the behavior by clearing your history, deleting messages, or keeping parts of your online life secret. It may also have become your way of coping with stress, loneliness, rejection, anger, or feeling overwhelmed.

Sexual addiction doesn’t always look like a life falling apart. A man can go to work, take care of his family, attend church, and seem to be doing well. From the outside, everything may look normal. Inside, he knows he isn’t free, even if he doesn’t know what to call it.

For men struggling in this area, another promise to stop is rarely enough. With one-on-one s*xual addiction recovery coaching, we can take an honest look at what is behind the behavior and why it has been so difficult to stop. From there, we can work on rebuilding honesty and finding healthier ways to handle difficult emotions.

Many men carry this struggle in silence, and shame is often what keeps them there. If something in this post feels familiar, don’t let shame block you from the help you may need. Send me a private message. Your first conversation is complimentary and confidential.

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