MEET YOUR COACH
Dr. Michael Semon
The Guide Who Helps You Stop Striving, Start Surrendering, and Finally Live the Life Jesus Promised.
Retired Therapist
PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy
40+ Years in Practice
Author, Speaker, Coach
If you met Michael years ago...
you would have seen a man running hard—doing everything he could to hold his world together, trying to be enough for everyone who needed him. On the outside, he was the picture of strength: counselor, teacher, husband, father, leader. But inside, he felt the quiet exhaustion of a man carrying more than he was designed to hold.
He knows what it feels like to wake up with a knot in your stomach, wondering why the life you’ve built still feels heavy.
He knows what it’s like to hand out wisdom to others while privately hoping someone will hand you something that finally sets you free.He knows the ache of keeping peace on the outside while resentment, pressure, and self-reliance build on the inside.
Michael’s life changed the day a single verse stopped him in his tracks:
“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.” Matthew 16:25
It wasn’t a devotional moment. It wasn’t a sermon. It was more like someone pulled a curtain back and he suddenly saw the truth:
He had spent his life trying to save it.
But Jesus was inviting him to lose it.
Not lose himself in burnout or self-neglect, but lose the small, constricted life built on pressure, performance, and emotional fusion—so he could finally find the life Jesus had been offering all along.
Everything Michael teaches flows from that moment.Because that’s where the Leader’s Paradox was born:You don’t find life by gripping it harder.You find it by dying to the life that’s killing you.
The Problem Many Believers Face
Most Christians know the language of faith but still live with the weight of self-reliance. They pray, serve, lead, and love, yet secretly feel:
• tired of trying to measure up
• resentful from carrying others’ expectations
• overextended in relationships
• empty despite doing everything “right”
• disconnected from themselves and from God
It’s a slow erosion - so subtle you barely notice it - until one day your soul feels threadbare and everything in you whispers, "There has to be more than this."
Michael knows this landscape well. He’s walked it personally. He’s guided thousands through it. And he knows exactly what stands on the other side.
A Different Way Forward
Michael doesn’t position himself as a guru, a rescuer, or the hero of your story.He shows up more like a calm presence in the middle of a storm—steady, grounded, and unafraid of your messHis work is built on three essential lenses:
Personal Awareness
Seeing where you’re acting from fear, fusion, pressure, or identity confusion.Like turning on the lights in a dim room—you finally see what’s been tripping you.
Relational Systems
Understanding how your presence shapes the emotional field around you.Most people feel stuck because they’re fighting symptoms, not systems.
Life in Christ
Not theory, not striving, not “try harder” spirituality.The surrendered life—where the Spirit does the work you’ve been exhausting yourself attempting.This is not improvement.This is resurrection.
The Plan
Michael leads believers through a simple but profound arc:
1. Notice the Life You’re Trying to Protect
The one built on pressure, control, and over-responsibility.
2. Let That Life Die
Not recklessly, but intentionally—letting go of the identity that is failing you.
3. Receive the Life Jesus Gives
The one marked by clarity, freedom, connection, and abundance. This is where marriages shift. Where ministry becomes life-giving instead of soul-draining. Where leaders stop rescuing and start guiding. Where believers finally breathe again.
The Promise
When you walk with Michael, you will experience something rare:a guide who refuses to let you shrink into the false life you worked so hard to maintain.
He invites you into a life that feels different – lighter, truer, freer… like stepping out of a cramped room into a wide, open field.This is the life Jesus meant when He said find it.
Not someday.Not after you fix yourself.
Not once you get it all right.
Now.
Through surrender.
Through dying to live.
The Invitation
Whether you quietly read and reflect, engage deeply, or step into coaching or formation work with him, the invitation remains the same:
Stop preserving a life that cannot give you the freedom you seek.Come learn how to die to the small story—so you can rise into the abundant one.Michael stands ready to guide you—not with pressure, but with presence; not with formulas, but with truth; not with demands, but with the quiet confidence that comes from someone who has lived this journey and found life on the other side.This is Dying to Live.This is where your resurrection begins.
Ready to get started?