Lyn McCright
MPH, APRN, AGNP, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC
Lyn is the owner and director of Advancing Nurse Coaching. She began coaching more than 30 years ago, teaching resilience based on the principles of The Resilience Paradigm in private practice. As a lifelong teacher and leader in the field, Lyn has worked in a variety of nursing settings, including as a medical-surgical staff nurse, in ICU-CCU, nursing education, public health, and as a supervisor in home health and hospice.
Titles & Credentials
- Board Certified Health and Wellness Nurse Coach
- Advanced Holistic Nurse
- Adult & Gerontological Nurse Practitioner
- Clinical Specialist in Community Health Nursing
- Former Clinical Instructor in the School of Nursing at University of Texas El Paso
- Masters of Public Health // University of Minnesota School of Public Health
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing // University of Arkansas Medical Center (now UAMS)
Current Memberships
- American Nurses Association
- American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
- Texas Nurse Practitioners
- Central Texas Chapter of American Holistic Nurses Association (Chapter Leader)
Teresa Walding
BSN, RN, NC-BC
Teresa Walding BSN, RN, NC-BC, earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Boise State University in 1993. She has worked in a variety of clinical areas – including ICU, rehabilitation, psychiatric, pediatrics, and Post Anesthesia Recovery. As a speaker and teacher, she has taught the Principles of Resilience at national conferences, meetings, webinars, and retreats.
Teresa is a Board-Certified Nurse Coach and Associate Director of the Advancing Nurse Coaching Program, which focuses on bringing the Principles of Resilience to nurses and health care professionals through their 80-hour virtual, self-paced course.
She is a Co-Leader of the Austin Area Chapter of the American Holistic Nursing Association (AHNA). She is a contributor to the Beginnings magazine of the AHNA. She has appeared on podcasts, radio shows, and webinars as a content expert on the Principles of Resilience.
Teresa established Teresa Walding Consulting, PLLC in 2019.
Read about Teresa’s personal experience with The Resilience Paradigm.
Dr. Keith Blevens
Partner
Keith Blevens, Ph.D., is a nationally known health care speaker and innovator. He has been a licensed clinical psychologist for forty years. As an educator holding degrees from Indiana University (B.A.) and Texas Tech University (Ph.D.), he has served on the staff of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Waco, Texas and been Director of Psychological Services at Baylor University. He has taught for the Northwest Center for Medical Leadership and been treatment team lead for The Rape Treatment Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. He has taught classes and served on Doctoral Research Committees at nine universities.
Dr. Blevens has pioneered the development of the “3 Principles Paradigm” and the “Resilience Paradigm” based upon the discoveries and teaching of Sydney Banks.
His career has involved the training and development of healthcare, mental healthcare, and business professionals. He has trained nurses in Florida and Minnesota and professionals in many states, as well as several foreign countries including Great Britain, Australia, Canada, and Israel.
Dr. Bill Pettit
Partner
Dr. Bill Pettit, former clinical psychiatrist, and a leading mind in teaching the Three Universal Principles (a.k.a. Principles of Resilience, Three Principles).
Dr. Pettit was personally mentored by Sydney Banks, the originator of the Three Principles, for 26 years and he used the Principles in his clinical practice for over 35 years. He also taught for over 20 years in academia and presently holds an appointment as an Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Creighton University School of Medicine.
He now devotes his time and energy to further share the wisdom of Three Principles.
With his online individual and group programs you too can be supported in your journey to innate well being.
Lyn’s Journey
The profession of nursing has been a joy for me. Ever since I sat with our old dog as she was dying, I have felt the beautiful open space of being with others in their most vulnerable times.
My good fortune was to always be at the leading edge of where the profession was headed: first baccalaureate class at my university, master’s degree with a nurse practitioner focus just 8 years after education for NP’s began, nursing private practice in California in 1986, nearly unheard of at the time.
In private practice, and as a community health nurse, I called myself a nurse consultant since coaching had not been invented yet.
Embracing the entire community with my services: I saw private clients in my office, consulted with nursing homes, spoke to an outpatient mental health clinic, worked with an industrial firm experiencing a high rate of on-site job accidents, worked with business organizations, held weekend workshops at the community center, did teaching and research at the community college. I even had my own radio show!
While living overseas, I experienced chronic illness and returning to the States, I became even more ill. Even so, I never lost hope of returning to my professional work.
Upon regaining my health, I joined the American Holistic Nurses Association, volunteering as a chapter leader the same day. This allowed networking with many other like-minded nurses, and we formed a council for the chapter administration.
The nurses and health professionals on the council decided to come together to create a holistic nursing school and I realized that the Resilience Principles which I had shared in my private practice would be an ideal umbrella over all of the modalities and special practice areas of holistic nursing.
I recall being at a session of the national AHNA conference when I envisioned and drew healing hands holding the young holistic healthcare system, and suddenly realized the hands were mine. I knew that the Resilience Principles and nurse coaching would transform health care.
Teresa’s Experience
Have you ever had something so big inside of you that you wanted to bring out into the world, but were too afraid to do it? That was me before I realized the power of the Resilience Principles.
In 2015 I was at a low point in my life. I was suffering from chronic pain, burnout, and dissatisfaction with life. I saw no end to my circumstances.
Then, in October 2015 I attended our 5th Annual Texas Regional Holistic Nursing Conference, where I met Dr. Keith Blevens. He described how thought works. Not my belief about how it works, but how it really works as a fact. He described it as inside-out. A natural paradigm of how our mental life works.
To be honest, I don’t think I completely understood what he was talking about, but it made sense. I experience life in only one way, my thought attached to my feeling creating my life. It was so simple.
Then he talked about separate realities. We all experience a separate reality of life. That made sense.
Then something happened, I experienced those words in my body and at the moment of insight, I felt a tingling go down my back and out my arms and legs and the pain I had been suffering from disappeared. I now call it a side effect of insightfully understanding these Principles at a deep level.
I suddenly “knew” I had to share the Resilience Principles with people.
Lyn and I had an insight into how to do that. We were going to bring the Principles to people through Nurse Coaching–a new board certification for nurses. We signed up for a nurse coaching program and six months later we opened Advancing Nurse Coaching continuing education program.
I am excited to be on this journey to help other nurses and our profession not just heal but thrive.