
Guiding People Toward Healing, Purpose, and Radical Kindness
MY SERVICES
WISDOM • TRANSFORMATION • KINDNESS • LEADERSHIP
What I Offer​
Melissa Swonger is an author, speaker, trauma-informed coach, and qualitative researcher devoted to helping people reclaim their stories and live with purpose. With a unique blend of scholarship and lived experience, she brings together psychology, theology, coaching, and storytelling to create safe spaces for hope, healing, and renewal.
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Transformation
Blending theology, psychology, and neuroscience to help individuals.
Leadership
Empowering individuals to lead themselves and others well through strategy, connection, and intentionality.
Coaching
trauma-informed, transformative, and leadership coaching that moves people past what keeps them stuck and creates a blueprint for realizing desired outcomes.
Spiritual Formation
Discover Biblical principles grounded in relationship over religion that create space to know God and love Him with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength. Learn how He created you uniquely in ways that lead to appropriate self-love, which, out of the overflow, enables us to love others through radical kindness.
Why Work With Me?

Integrated Approach
I bridge disciplines that are often siloed: psychology, theology, coaching, and storytelling.
Specialized Focus
I serve people navigating trauma recovery, leadership challenges, and spiritual crisis—a rare trifecta.
Lived Experience + Scholarship
I lead from both research and resilience, making my work intellectually grounded and deeply human.
Movement of Kindness
Through The Sage Hill Project, I mobilize radical kindness and fierce love as catalysts for change.
