Empowered Families LLC

Providing coaching for parents to help them become more connected and fulfilled in their most important relationships.

Co-Founder

Michael Anderson Coaching

Helping Leaders find freedom from self doubt & limitations so they can live boldly, lead powerfully, and be deeply present in their relationship

Founder

Renew Relationship Counseling

Marriage And Family Therapist

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Seminaries & Institute Teacher for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

LDS Seminary & Institute Teacher (Part-TIme)

Intermountain Healthcare

Community Outreach Intern

Missionary Training Center

Teacher

Unite For Sight

Global Impact Fellow

Patient Experience Intern

Helping Families Experience Deeper Connection | Published children's book series on mental health | I speak to organizations about mental health and strengthening relationships

I'm a therapist and coach helping young parents to heal and reconnect - with each other, with their kids, and with themselves.

As a therapist, I'm trained in mindfulness and trauma-healing. As a coach, I bring those skills to the table to help people become who they want to be.

I offer:

- Individual coaching to help you overcome stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and help you to rewire your mind to transform how you view yourself and others 

- Couples Coaching to help you and your partner experience deeper fulfillment, heal past and current wounds, and learn how to show up for each other as the partner you want to be

- Porn recovery coaching for men who finally want the tools and resources to rewire their brains, process urges, and get to the root at what keeps them stuck so they can be the man, husband, and father they were always meant to be

If you have questions about how the process works, then DM me or book a free 30-minute call. I'm also just a nice guy (what can I say), and would love to talk.

Being a boy dad is the best. Here's my argument why:

Me about 10 minutes ago: "Alright boys, it's time for quiet reading time before bed."

My 5-year old: "Can we just kick each other in the nuts instead?"



I rest my case. 

P.S. not to worry, kids are quietly reading as we speak. No one has been harmed.

Michael Anderson

Helping Husbands & Fathers Break Free & Show Up More Powerfully For Their Families | My Podcast Will Teach You How | Listen in Featured 👇

My clients won't see this cause they're all in the middle of a dopamine reset and aren't on social media 

So let me brag on them for a moment. Just two weeks into this cohort they are saying: 

One man is experiencing deeper presence with his family. He said:

"When I come home from work, I give my phone to my 5-year-old and let him hide it. That way I get to be PRESENT with him, and he gives it back before bedtime"

(He also puts an alarm on it so it goes off and he can find it lol...just in case his kid forgets😂)


Another client said:

"I had a breakthrough moment the other day...Being a true man isn’t having a monster within to fight day and night. Being a true man is recognizing that the “monster” needs compassion and understanding, not battle."

Another client said he's experiencing more presence as a husband and father 

Another said he feels more in control over himself and of his urges than ever

Another man told me he's learning how to deeply accept himself and believe in his worth 

All of them are showing up. For themselves. For each other.

December cohort is now officially open for enrollment 

90 days 

1:1 coaching 
Group coaching
Daily exercises and tools
A group of men growing together 


it's not about just using sheer willpower and weird accountability 

It's earning how to transform your mindset so you can then transform your relationships 

When you do that, you OUTGROW pornography (or any other behavior holding you back)


If you're reading this far, then let me tell you that I believe in you 

DM me and let's talk 

I can help you

You want to see how emotionally mature someone is?

Watch how they respond to your boundaries 

When someone pushes back
Get upset and blames you 
Tries to sneak through them

It is not a sign that you are bad

Or that you are selfish 

It's just a sign that your healthy boundaries activated something inside of them that they don't know how to navigate yet

You can have compassion on them
You can have compassion on yourself 
And you can move forward 

Trusting that healthy boundaries do not make you selfish...

They allow you to show up as your best self for those who matter most 

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I'm Michael Anderson 

I help men overcome pornography - not through sheer willpower and weird accountability - but by taking them through a 90 day experience that transforms their mindset and their relationships 

So they can become a man who no longer needs to escape. 

Who experiences deep connection with others and himself 

If that's a journey you're wanting to go on

Then DM me and let's talk

I can help you

I help men heal from pornography, and it's the most rewarding thing in the world 

Cause to be honest, healing has almost nothing to do with the pornography 

And almost EVERYTHING to do with helping men:

Heal inner wounds 
Love themselves deeply 
Become emotionally healthy 
Become more still and present 

Cause at the end of the day, it's these things that are keeping men from showing up more powerfully for their spouse, their kids, their career, you name it 


Was talking with a client who said:

"I'm always scared that I don't deserve good things. I doubt myself all the time, and I beat myself up ..

...It's awful."

He was stressed 
He was overwhelmed 

And so he used pornography as a way to deal with it all temporarily 

And he had tried for years to just STOP 

"This is stupid." He would say to himself. "I'm DONE."

But he would slip back into old cycles again and again 

When we first started meeting, I told him:

"We're gonna do something different. Youve spent your whole life running from yourself.

And now? We're gonna help you face these parts of you.

With compassion and curiosity."


THAT is what finally allows you to HEAL


I help clients find stillness 

I help clients learn how to FEEL without running 

I help clients to learn how to find Connection 


I had the thought the other day...

What if I could take the principles I teach my 1:1 clients and put it into a Challenge that helps men to:

reset their dopamine 
heal limiting beliefs 
outgrow pornography 
and step into the man they truly are?


And boom...Unbound: The 21 Day Reset Challenge was born


Here's what I FIRMLY believe:

Any man can heal

Most men just aren't given the right tools
...I know that's cliche to say, but it's true 

Unbound is meant to finally give you those tools 

If that's a journey you're ready to go on, 

then DM me and let's talk

I can help you

One of the key principles I teach the men in Unbound is 'durability.'

The ability to make space for your partner's emotions 

Without the need to change them

Can we hear our partners pain and not make it about our pain

Can we hear our partners share how we've hurt them and not get sucked into our own wounds 


Couples who can be durable are couples who can experience deep connection 

Even IN the pain 

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I'm Michael Anderson 

I help men overcome pornography - not through sheer willpower or weird accountability - but by helping them transform their mindset and their relationships 

If you're wanting to do that deep work then DM me

I can help you

When we are young, we have experiences that teach us to shut down parts of our humanity:

Curiosity annoyed your parents
Anger scared your family
Crazy behavior was "disruptive"
Imperfection was a disappointment
Sadness needed to be "solved"
Worth had to be earned

Healing, then, is the process by which we learn to embrace the parts of our humanity that got shut down

Allow yourself to curious again
Treat your anger with kindess
Be crazy, have fun, act goofy
Learn from mistakes, give yourself grace
Sit with your sadness and say, 'hi'
Love yourself regardless of the outcomes

The more I do this work, the more I believe wholeheartedly...

The heart of all healing is deep, real, self acceptance

The more YOU want YOU

The less you'll care if others want you

The more you'll live with courage

The more you'll try new things

The more consistent you'll become

The more fulfillment you'll find in your relationships


Healing is not the absence of pain
Healing is the ability to be WITH our pain

With compassion and courage

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I'm Michael Anderson
I help men overcome pornography - not through sheer willpower or weird accountability - but by helping them transform their mindset and relationships.

If that is a journey you are needing some help with

Then DM me and lets talk

I can help you

It's Enrollment week. 

Pretty exciting.

3 calls booked so far, 2 more in the works

And it's only Monday.

THIS week is your shot to get enrolled

10 spots available for December's cohort. And when they are filled, they are filled.

This work is deeply personal to me. 

NOTHING is more important to me than the role of husband and father 

I can help you finally make real lasting progress overcoming this behavior 

Not because we count days and use weird accountability 

But because we use neuroscience 

If you're done trying to figure this out on your own

Then let's take the journey!

This is a video on my IG, so there is no link to tap on

So DM me for more details

We'll set up a call this week 

Rooting for you

This work is the coolest

On our last group call, I told the guys that they were some of the best men I've ever met

And I meant it 

These are men who love their wives, their kids, and who genuinely want to lift each other up 

This is enrollment week for December's cohort 

After this week, you'll have to wait until January

DM me and let's talk if you're ready to finally be done with this 

Rooting for you

Do not - I repeat - do NOT work with me if...

you're into quick fixes 
don't want to dive deep 
would rather not get pushed 
love staying comfortable 

I care WAY too much about my clients to let them stay stagnant 

Or to give them quick tips 

Or to let them stay comfortable and leave deep change on the table 

Cause this isn't about stopping a behavior 

This is about transforming how you show up for your family 

How you show up for yourself 

This is about, maybe for the first time, deeply accepting yourself 

And not feeling the need to escape yourself 

This is about coming to the point where you no longer worry about what others think of you

Cause YOU want you... and so the opinions of others don't matter 

This is about experiencing deep connection with your spouse 

Cause you know how to lean in and experience vulnerability, rather than run to escape 

You learn how to experience real connection? And you'll start outgrowing the damaging behaviors you thought you were stuck with forever 

December cohort of Unbound Freedom launches soon

90 days
Group coaching 
Daily exercises 
Dopamine Reset 
Curriculum rooted in long-term change 


Plus a years access within the community 

To help you cement what you experienced and what you became 

We don't mess around in Unbound 😎

DM me for more details 

There's room for YOU

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