title: Gentle Reminders: Messages Of Encouragement For Clarity, Healing, And Breakthrough
author: Erika L. Adams
description: Erika L. Adams is a licensed minister, teacher, encourager, mentor, and writer with over 20 years of multifaceted leadership service. She is deeply passionate about co-creating with women and global leaders who need support on their path of self-discovery and life fulfillment. Erika is the founder of The Traveling Encourager, LLC, a personal development company. She is a proud California native who enjoys artistic self-expression, quality time in nature, intercultural literacy, and the transformative education of world travel.
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  _For Mark, Van, Allan, and Robin_
  
  
  
  
  
  _Thank you for being such wonderful friends_
  
  
  
  
  
  _while we were all still standing behind a badge._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Acknowledgments
  
  
  
  
  
  My continued appreciation goes to Samantha Millburn for sharing her
  extraordinary editing talents. I don’t know what I would do without you. Thank
  you to Jessica Parker, Katie Sterling, and McKinley Griffin for your
  invaluable insight and to the rest of the Covenant family for your continued
  support. A special thanks to Stephanie Lacey for all of your marketing efforts
  and to Kathy Gordon for making this journey such an enjoyable one.
  
  
  
  
  
  Thanks to my wonderful friends Paige Edwards, Jen Leigh, and Ellie Whitney for
  your constant encouragement and feedback. I am constantly amazed by your
  talents and the way you are able to help me develop mine. I am especially
  grateful to Kanani Cox for your editing assistance in the midst of so much
  turmoil.
  