🌿About Encouraging Mondays: Coaching the Heart and Mind
🌿(Faith. Growth. Purpose.)
Our Story
Welcome to Encouraging Mondays: Coaching the Heart and Mind, a faith-inspired space created to nurture both educators and families through words of encouragement, biblical reflection, and practical tools for growth.
What began as simple Monday messages sent to a small group of friends has grown into a mission—one that bridges faith, education, and everyday life. Each week, Shawna shares encouragement designed to strengthen hearts, renew minds, and inspire action that glorifies God.
Our Mission
To bridge faith and education—helping families, educators, and students grow in peace, purpose, and confidence as they pursue their God-given goals.
At Encouraging Mondays, we believe transformation begins within. Through Scripture, reflection, and practical wisdom, we coach the heart and mind toward growth that lasts.
Tagline: Where faith meets education—one Scripture, one goal, one day at a time.
🌿ABOUT THE VISIONARY — SHAWNA S.
Shawna S. is a retired Intervention Specialist with 31 years of award-winning service in special education, known for her extraordinary classroom management, compassionate leadership, and unwavering belief that every child can succeed when the heart is nurtured as intentionally as the mind.
For decades, Shawna has lived a lifestyle anchored in prayer, discernment, and a daily sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. Her home, her car, her workplace, and her everyday errands naturally became spaces of ministry, healing, comfort, and divine encounter. Whether praying with strangers in parking lots, encouraging weary hearts in grocery store aisles, or interceding as the unofficial “chaplain” of her family and ministry circle, Shawna has always carried God’s presence into the ordinary rhythms of life.
She is the founder of Encouraging Mondays: Coaching the Heart & Mind, a growing global platform dedicated to strengthening educators, uplifting families, renewing weary hearts, and helping others live with spiritual clarity and emotional peace. Her signature devotionals, weekly “Encouraging Mondays” messages, TempleCare teachings, and faith-based coaching continue to inspire people across generations and nations
Through her upcoming, soon to be released Memoir, Shawna writes from a place of deep gratitude — for God’s pursuit, His patience, His forgiveness, and His daily mercies. Her story is one of obedience, surrender, bold faith, and the quiet courage to follow God step by step into new assignments, technologies, and territories she never imagined entering.
Through this memoir, Shawna offers readers not just a testimony, but a legacy — a record of God’s faithfulness, a blueprint for everyday ministry, and a keepsake for generations yet to come.
✨Our Faith Focus
This platform is grounded in Isaiah 26:3:
“You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in You.”
We believe that true growth—spiritual, personal, and academic—flows from a steadfast heart anchored in God’s Word. Every reflection, video, and resource you’ll find here points back to Him.
💛The Heart Behind Good Blessed Encouraging Mondays:
✨The Meaning Behind “Good Blessed Encouraging Mondays”
If you’ve ever received a message from me, you’ve seen my signature greeting:
Good Blessed Encouraging Mondays, Family, Friends, and New Encouragers.
This greeting is far more than a hello. It was born in prayer, shaped through years of ministry, and has become a spiritual blessing spoken over every person who enters this community.
⭐Here’s what it means:
🌿It’s a Blessing
I’m not just greeting you — I’m declaring goodness, blessing, and encouragement into your life.
🌿It’s an Affirmation
Even if it’s Tuesday or Saturday, the words remind you that God’s goodness is available right now.
🌿It’s Calming & Centering
The greeting resets your spirit.
It slows you down.
It creates a peaceful moment before the message even begins.
🌿It’s Prophetic
It doesn’t describe the day —
it shapes the day.
It calls your week into alignment with God’s peace.
🌿It Builds Identity & Community
Our Encouraging Mondays family is growing — children, teens, adults, teachers, parents, caregivers, and encouragers from everywhere.
This greeting is our shared heartbeat.
When you hear it, you know you’re home.
This is why I say it every time.
This is why it has become the voice of our community.
And this is why I pray it continues to bless you every single time you read it or hear it.
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🌿Join our Community/Family
🌿STAY CONNECTED WITH ENCOURAGING MONDAYS
Encouraging Mondays is more than a website — it’s a growing community of faith, reflection, and peaceful transformation. If God has been speaking to your heart through these messages, I’d love for you to stay connected throughout the week. Each platform gives you a unique way to receive encouragement, grow spiritually, and walk in God’s perfect peace.
LinkedIn — Weekly Encouragement & Reflections
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawna-stately-853771390
YouTube — Encouraging Mondays Video Messages
http://www.youtube.com/@EncouragingMondays
Podcast Devotionals With Shawna S. — Listen on the Go
https://open.spotify.com/show/3pT2RcBNOKpa8A2vuYIJ4W
Wherever you choose to connect, may these messages speak life to your spirit and peace to your heart.
I’m praying for you always — and I’m grateful you’re here
💛Our Vision Ahead
Encouraging Mondays is just the beginning. As we grow, new opportunities will unfold—
Faith-based reflection guides designed to help you apply God’s Word throughout the week
Educator and family coaching programs to support student success and strengthen learning environments
Courses and resources to equip teachers and parents with heart-driven, research-based strategies
Digital devotionals and printables for personal growth, encouragement, and peace
Every step forward will continue to honor Christ, uplift others, and reflect the same heart behind every Encouraging Monday message—faith, education, and transformation.