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Rooted in Compassion

We are here to walk alongside you through life’s challenges—offering guidance, encouragement, and practical tools for healing and growth.

Rooted in Compassion

We are here to walk alongside you through life’s challenges—offering guidance, encouragement, and practical tools for healing and growth.

Our Mission is to:

-  Create a judgment-free space where you can share openly.

-  Spark thoughtfulness and inspire empowering action.

-  Help you break free from limiting chains and embrace new beginnings.

-  Encourage you to dream boldly and live with renewed purpose.

What We Help With

Whether you’re facing grief, relationship struggles, stress, workplace pressure, or spiritual conflicts, we are here for you. You are not alone—together, we’ll find solutions tailored to your journey.

Meet Dr. Clara
Iyabo Stephens

Dr. Clara Stephens is an accomplished author, ordained minister, and board-certified chaplain. She holds advanced degrees in Psychology, Christian Studies, and Divinity, blending scholarship with heartfelt compassion.

Her personal story—shaped by early loss, resilience, and faith—equips her to deeply connect with those facing life’s hardest battles. As a Nigerian American, wife, and mother, she brings both cultural depth and lived wisdom to her work .

Through ComfortTheAchingSoul, the Women for Christ International Foundation, her YouTube channel, and her podcast, Dr. Clara continues her mission to extend hope, healing, and courage to individuals worldwide.

Books
by DR. CLARA STEPHENS

Holistic Harmony: Integrating Faith, Culture, and Science for Mental & Spiritual Well-Being

Discover the Harmony Your Soul Has Been Searching For

In a world fragmented by stress, trauma, and spiritual disconnection, Holistic Harmony offers a refreshing path to wholeness. This transformative book bridges the gap between faith, culture, and psychological science, empowering readers to experience healing that touches every part of life—body, mind, and spirit.

Blending theological insight, psychological wisdom, and modern wellness practices, Dr. Clara Iyabo Stephens guides you through a journey of deep restoration and spiritual renewal. With each chapter, you'll gain practical tools to strengthen emotional resilience, enhance mental clarity, and realign your life with divine purpose.
Whether you're a faith leader, mental health professional, or someone seeking clarity and healing, this book will help you:

Reconcile your spiritual beliefs with modern psychology
Understand the root causes of emotional and mental fatigue
Cultivate peace, clarity, and spiritual wholeness
Embrace a lifestyle of renewed faith and holistic health
Let this book be your companion in reconnecting to your truest self—anchored in faith, informed by science, and empowered by purpose.

Blending theological insight, psychological wisdom, and modern wellness practices, Dr. Clara Iyabo Stephens guides you through a journey of deep restoration and spiritual renewal. With each chapter, you'll gain practical tools to strengthen emotional resilience, enhance mental clarity, and realign your life with divine purpose.

Whether you're a faith leader, mental health professional, or someone seeking clarity and healing, this book will help you:

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The Valley Season: Your Crucible for Growth

What if your lowest point is God’s launching pad for your highest purpose?

In The Valley Season: Your Crucible for Growth, Dr. Clara Stephens brings a powerful message of hope for anyone walking through life’s complex and uncertain seasons. This isn’t just another book about pain—it’s a blueprint for purpose. A guide to not just survive the valley, but to be refined by it.

Blending biblical wisdom, personal reflection, and practical application, Dr. Stephens draws from valleys in Scripture—like Achor and Eschol—and parallels them with modern struggles: loss, betrayal, confusion, waiting seasons, and emotional suffering. But instead of offering clichés, she gives clarity: your valley is a crucible, not a curse.
You’ll learn how to shift from “Why is this happening to me?” to “What is God producing in me?”

This book will equip you with tools to:
Recognize divine purpose in painful seasons
Build spiritual resilience and emotional courage
Discover transformation through surrender
Step into your mountaintop moment with refined character and renewed faith
If you're in a season of uncertainty, heartbreak, or spiritual testing, The Valley Season will lead you into the breakthrough that pain was preparing you for.

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Holistic Harmony: Integrating Faith, Culture, and Science for Mental & Spiritual Well-Being

What if the dreams you’ve buried are the very keys to your destiny?

Dr. Clara Stephens takes you on an unforgettable journey into the sacred territory of vision, purpose, and persistence. This is not a book about bedtime fantasies—it’s a book about waking up to who you really are and the visions you were born to carry.

With a mix of personal insight, storytelling, spiritual wisdom, and cultural relevance, Dr. Stephens explores how dreams shape our identity, influence our decisions, and carve paths through pain, betrayal, isolation, and breakthrough. Each chapter pulses with clarity and conviction, reminding you that the dreams inside you are not random; they’re divine blueprints waiting to be built.

Whether you’ve been told your dream is too big, your background too humble, or your season has passed, Dreams Do Not Die is your invitation to rise again—with faith, fire, and focus.

Dreams Do Not Die is a bold, inspiring book that uncovers the life-altering power of vision. Dr. Clara Stephens weaves powerful insights, real-life reflections, and storytelling to remind readers that dreams, especially the ones born in hardship, are sacred. They shape reality, fuel resilience, and reveal destiny.

Perfect for believers, dreamers, creatives, and change-makers, this book is a prophetic call to revive your imagination and walk boldly toward the life you were designed for.

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Navigating the Journey of Loss and Grief: Embracing the Stages for Healing, Comfort, and Growth

What if grief wasn’t something to get over—but a sacred process to walk through?

In Navigating the Journey of Loss and Grief, Dr. Clara Iyabo Stephens offers a deeply compassionate and empowering guide to help you find healing in the midst of heartbreak. This is not a manual for “moving on.” It’s a path to moving forward—with purpose, permission, and peace.

Drawing from her own lived experience and professional expertise as a minister, scholar, and board-certified coach, Dr. Stephens gently dismantles the myth of linear grief. Instead, she offers a compassionate understanding of grief’s complexity—from traumatic loss to ambiguous grief and silent sorrows often unacknowledged.
With tenderness and practical wisdom, this book helps you:

Embrace the non-linear, personal process of grief
Navigate emotional storms with tools for mental and spiritual resilience
Practice intentional self-care during bereavement
Honor your loss while rediscovering your voice, identity, and peace
Transform pain into a testimony of enduring love and personal strength
This is more than a book. It’s a companion. A reminder that your tears are not a weakness; they are sacred. Your story doesn’t end with loss. It begins again—with healing.

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Woman, You're Not Alone: A Call to Celebrate Womanhood

This book illustrates how many women in the Bible endured trials and tribulations and how these events parallel what many women are still experiencing today. Dr. Clara Stepens offers women practical advice on how to deal with these trials in a way that honors God. Women will come to understand why God created them and realize that, regardless of the situation or condition they face, they can find fulfillment by seeking God.

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I Am Not Forgotten God Knows My Name

The Author in this work recounts her life tales, practice, and understanding of purpose, demonstrating a positive response to the process that births it. The narrations were down-to-earth, encounters were unimaginably inhuman, sordid, and undignifying, but courage and patience had better value. She was cheated, dejected, and humiliated. Stoutly, she kept a calm disposition. Her teachable spirit and deference to counsel leveraged on divine strength and victory for her. She was rewarded. Everything fell into shape. Life now has a meaning; desires, pictures, and dreams of life are established. I highly recommend this excellent book by my daughter in faith to anyone who believes in the hope for their future and a future in their hope. What you are going through will not see its end; you will see theirs. As she uncompromisingly adhered to righteous principles, you will follow in her footsteps and succeed. Seeing you on the sunny side of life.- Dr Tunde Bakare, Serving Overseer, of the Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC), formerly, the Latter Rain Assembly, (LRA), Lagos, Nigeria.

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