Social Wellness with Mental Freedom
I never saw the movie, but I did read The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood—a hilarious and poignant look at the bonds between Southern
Kim Olver
July 16, 2025
Welcome to Olver International
At Olver International, we believe that lasting change in the world begins with the courage to change ourselves. We are a values-driven organization committed to fostering personal responsibility, emotional resilience, and inner freedom as a foundation for creating a more compassionate, inclusive, and empowered world.
In a time of deep divisions and culture wars, we choose a different path—one rooted in dignity, mutual respect, and the unwavering belief that every person has value. We welcome people of all backgrounds, identities, and perspectives who are ready to do the work of transforming their inner lives to align with the world they want to see.
We recognize that real impact begins from within. That’s why we support coaches, counselors, leaders, and seekers in their journey toward greater authenticity, clarity, and purpose—so they can become powerful agents of positive change in their communities and beyond.
Being involved with Olver International means you:
- See diversity as strength and difference as opportunity
- Reject blame and victimhood in favor of ownership and growth
- Embrace the power of choice to shape your relationships, work, and life
- Commit to leading with compassion, integrity, and intention
Together, we’re building a global community of changemakers who choose to lead from the inside out.
What is Mental Freedom®?
Kim has developed her proprietary process called, Mental Freedom ®, to help clients transform any painful emotions they are experiencing into something neutral or even positive. This is not a process that takes a long time; rather it is taught in six sessions and can be applied to any painful situation in a person’s life.
By learning and following the Mental Freedom formula, so many people are already living a Mentally-Free Life. They’ve had transformations in their romantic relationships, with their children, with their parents, at work and more.
Mental Freedom® is the solution for:
- Relationships that arent't working.
- Children that are making decisions with the power to ruin their lives.
- Jobs that are sucking you dry.
- Addiction
- The blocks that keep you from reaching your potential.
- Feeling inadequate.
- Feelings of anger and fear.
What is Choice Coaching?
Our coaching process is about helping people to stop creating their own misery, while helping them take responsibility for their own happiness and success by putting their time and energy into the things they control, rather than the things they don’t. This means leading people away from blame, anger, and resentment and into introspection, acceptance and proactivity. Our process demolishes the victim mentality and empowers clients to reach their goals, while creating the meaningful relationships in their lives that will support and encourage them along the way.
Choice Coaches
- Empower clients for success
- Know how to help their clients become bigger than anything that happens to them.
- Assist clients with taking responsibility for the solutions to their own problems, while helping them learn how to have the greatest positive influence with the important people in their lives.
- Assist their clients to clarify their vision, mission, values and goals.
- Ask more questions, than provide direct answers, with the goal of guiding the client toward options that will maximize the likelihood of goal attainment.
- Work from a position of strength and wellness, as opposed to deficit and pathology.
- Provide just the right balance of support, challenge and accountability.
About Kim Olver
Kim founded her company, Olver International, in 2004 and it has grown to include coaching services, a board-certified coaching school, coach supervision, an independent publishing company, and a speaker’s bureau. Kim has developed her proprietary process called, Mental Freedom ®, to help clients transform any painful emotions they are experiencing into something neutral or even positive. This is not a process that takes a long time; rather it is taught in six sessions and can be applied to any painful situation in a person’s life.
In addition, Kim is an award-winning author of Secrets of Happy Couples and Choosing Me Now. She co-authored Leveraging Diversity at Work with Sylvester Baugh and wrote a chapter in the book, Contemporary Issues in Couples Counseling. Kim writes a bi-monthly mental health column for the River Reporter and has also contributed to HuffingtonPost.com, PsychCentral.com, YourTango.com, HerCampus.com, Whole Living, Women’s World, Fitness Magazine, Law of Attraction Magazine, Conscious Life Journal, Counseling Today and more. Kim is also a thought leader on the revolutionary app, DearLiv.
Kim has a wide range of experience, working in the fields of community mental health, corrections, child welfare, addiction, the military, couples, parenting, and self-discovery. She’s been writing a blog for over 15 years and is now in her fourth season of podcasting her show, Life = Choices; Choices = Life.
Books
Published by InsideOut Press
By Sylvester Baugh
Victory in the Wait describes how important it is to know how to wait and the impact of not waiting correctly. When we wait, we are communicating with God. We are not always waiting to receive from God, sometimes He has us in a season of wait until our will breaks. Effective waiting symbolizes submission, knowing that God is in control. He may have us waiting to develop our Fruit of the Spirit and to revive us. There are times when we might not feel like praying yet, we are needing or desiring something from God.
By Gigi Kilroe
“From Within is a riveting biographical work of one woman’s journey as a sexual abuse survivor, who transitioned from the physical and emotional pain and betrayal to a newly found passion to help others going through similar circumstances.”
What People Are Saying
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The Olver International Blog, written by relationship expert, Kim Olver, covers topics as it relates to relationships with the important people in your life and the most important one of all.. the one with yourself.
Who Will You Be When They Come for the Others?
The high cost of division—and the power of choosing love over fear. Like many Americans, I’m struggling with the state of politics these days. Part
Kim Olver
July 2, 2025
Rethinking Work-Life Balance
Professional Wellness: What It Really Takes I’m not one to promote a one-size-fits-all notion of work/life balance. Life isn’t something to be compartmentalized—it’s one integrated
Kim Olver
June 4, 2025
