About the Coach

My name is Cecil Wong and I embrace radical wholeness. That means pursuing and experiencing integration in ever deepening ways to connect with life giving love.

I’m a certified life coach with clients all across the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. I can help you:

• Reach your personal goals and overcome life challenges

• Deepen your relationship with your partner

• Raise an amazing family and create a healthy family culture

You know what matters most to you. And whatever those things are, they affect your family in significant ways. That’s why I focus on things that have the biggest impact in life: family connections.

My Mission Statement

I embody radical wholeness and I work with others to achieve theirs.

Family Connections Coaching partners with those who want to elevate their commitment to developing themselves, to lead with wisdom and love, at home and work.

We do this by courageously engaging hidden things that diminish our joy, health, and relationships.

We get off the path of conforming with societal pressures.

We choose the path of deeper transformation, empowered by radical wholeness.

We become the spouses, parents, friends and leaders that change the world.

My Drive to be a Coach

Getting clear is so essential. With demanding jobs, busy schedules, children’s education, extracurricular activities - how do we effectively prioritize? It’s been said that good is the enemy of the best (or something like that). Good job, good kids, good grades, good life… but what might be the very best? Could we be missing out on the great as we strive for the bazillion good things in life?

In other words, we need to ask: “What’s most important?” We need to know where we’re heading. And along the same lines, we need to know: “What’s most important right now?” That’ll help us get to where we need to get to.

My drive to be a life coach is fueled by the challenge, joy and satisfaction in partnering with people to learn and move forward in the things that mean most to them - including personal relationships, career, parenting or life changes. I have effectively coached many individuals to consistently give greater attention to what mattered most, in order to align their passion, purpose, and plans. I also work with those who want to become life coaches themselves, or are life coaches - such as Phoebe Jue at Celebrate You Coaching.

My Journey to Coaching

For nearly two decades as an educator, I worked closely with many students and families through various challenges. I also served as Chaplain and Dean of Students, giving more time to individual care and counselling of middle and high school students and their parents. From 2009 to 2015, I served as a children’s ministry director, growing a program that targeted the development of emotionally healthy spirituality. After two years of moonlight life coaching, I resigned in January of 2015 to pursue coaching full time.

I earned my BA in General Biology in 1989 from San Francisco State University and my Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in 2007. In July of 2014, I received the Certificate in Transformational Coaching from Western Seminary. Western Seminary is certified through the International Coaching Federation.

Most importantly, I am married to May, the love of my life, and have two children in their 20’s, whom I love to the moon.

I also love going to the movies with my daughter, traveling with my wife, and fishing with my son. Actually I just love being with them!

I am passionate about leading and loving my family to connect in the most meaningful ways that liberate each member to become and do their very best.

My Latest Developments

As of May 2022, I am a certified NASM physical trainer and USPTA tennis instructor. Weight lifting and tennis are activities I’ve been doing since my youth. And now I have formal training to help others develop their abilities in these areas; more importantly, I will continue to progress in expertise with further certifications.

Back in the early 2000’s, I added squats to my workouts and I’m so glad I did. As I increased the amount I could lift, I noticed significant improvements in the sports I played as well as daily movements like getting up from seated positions. I got quicker and more agile and even standing for long periods became easier.

Around 2018 I started deadlifts and again as I added more weight to the bar, my entire posterior chain (neck to lower back) got stronger and stronger. After several months, my back no longer felt sore and tight after long drives. Along with planks, back spasms are pretty much a thing of the past.

With tennis, I’ve been a decent player since college but got stuck at a level where my strokes lacked the power, spin, and consistency of truly good players. But when the pandemic started, I decided to deconstruct my mechanics and relearn how to hit the ball more effectively. The process was refreshing, challenging and satisfying. I’m now at a place where I know I can continue to build a much more powerful and consistent game.

Now on the back half of my 50’s, I enjoy the freedom of movement on and off the court and it’s due to my ongoing practice of putting heavy loads upon compound joint movements ie. squats and deadlifts and I want to help others do the same. Thriving in the second half of life requires greater oneness with God/ Love, others and ourselves. This triune integrity begins with a health connection of our head, heart, and body. Our personal alignment of matter and spirit is what being a Christian is truly about: the union of divinity and humanity which promotes wholeness and healing, first within then with others. Health is freedom and it is the first of all liberties. It begins with the heart and mind and results in manifestation through the body.

If we are not experiencing this integration, we are perpetuating systems that compromise healthy balance.

What I’m understanding more and more is the power of wholeness. Prioritizing wholeness is paramount and this is what saves us from basing our lives on short term functionality rather than joyful existence. There is a Bible verse that reveals God as wholeness. “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.” (Deuteronomy 6:4 NIV). And the Scriptures consistently warn against other gods because no other concept of god is as consistent with universal reality as a theology that comprehensively connects us with all matter and energy. If our knowledge of God doesn’t help us connect and integrate with physical AND metaphysical realities, we are on a path of dissociation which will result in systemic dysfunction, as a participant and/ or perpetrator.

It’s tragic when people who profess to be Christians do not give full weight to the revelation of Jesus Christ as both divine AND human. This Christology is paramount to healing and positive change in our lives. It is a life of matter and energy; it is integrative medicine; it is living life as a therapy that promotes generation of oneness/ integration.

This is my faith and practice: I am committed to the Way of divine oneness. This means being an agent of wholeness from the inside out. This has led me to a life of revelation and revolution in mind, heart, and body. Family Connections Coaching is all about helping clients pursue holistic longevity through optimizing internal and external connections for the sake of Love and loved ones. I want integrity of healthy connections of systems, beginning with my own body and family and resulting in the world. This is my calling, conviction and commitment.