By Amy Bertinelli // Women’s Empowerment // EEW Magazine Online

Millions of Christian women look happy and whole outwardly but inwardly are suffering from the wounds of mental and emotional trauma.

But LaKeisha Rainey Collins, founder of Beautiful Me Ministries and Director of Operations for the Alabama branch of Empowering Everyday Women Ministries, is on a mission to change that.

The devoted leader, who selflessly pours into women, says she has received a divine calling specifically to help women heal.

“I serve as a healing coach to provide empathy and guidance based on spiritual and practical knowledge and exercises,” explains Rainey Collins, 40.

Her latest endeavor, The Healing Room Conference, sponsored in part by EEW Magazine Online, will be held at Eastgate Bible Church in Alabama on June 24-25, 2022.

Register here.

The healing coach, who offers a safe, judgement-free zone for women to address past pains, heal, grow, and thrive through her virtual institution, Beautiful Me Academy, says God birthed The Healing Room in her spirit in a dream.

“I was standing on a podium, overlooking women visibly crying and broken, when suddenly worship filled the room. In the dream, I saw women being made whole,” she remembers.

The obedient servant awakened from her sleep with the understanding that her “job is simply to create the atmosphere where Jesus' healing presence and power can do what it does.”

That’s exactly what attendees can expect.

Though The Healing Room itself is a new event, Rainey Collins is not new to women’s ministry. She first launched in 2012, making this year the ten-year anniversary of her ministry.

“Helping women heal is my life's calling,” says the passionate coach and speaker who hosted her inaugural conference in 2013. And just as her first ever event – Embracing a Beautiful Me – focused on healing, all these years later, that remains the same.

“It is that thing that burdens me and fuels me,” says Rainey Collins, who offers help and hope to the hurting through her blog posts, articles, social media posts, and books.

“I am certain that it is my God-given assignment to walk with God's daughters through the trenches of deep, hidden pains into the light of self-love, healthy self-esteem, awareness, clarity, rediscovered identity, and hope, and introduce them to the person trauma prevented them from seeing and being,” she adds.

Aside from hosting in-person gatherings where women come together to heal in God’s presence, Rainey Collins is intensely focused on Beautiful Me Academy which launched during the height of the pandemic in 2020.

The academy offers an 8-week, one-on-one intensive designed to lead, educate, and support women through a journey to healing, wholeness, and healthy self-awareness and esteem. Students that sign up receive a week-by-week plan to help with identifying hindrances, stressors, traumas, and challenges that block forward progression.

"Healing has the power to change generations,” says Rainey Collins. “If I can help a mother heal, she then passes that along to her daughter, and the healing keeps going and growing."