Today we’d like to introduce you to Amery Baygents.
Hi Amery, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
I’m a wife, mother, and founder who is passionate about helping people find freedom, identity, and purpose in their everyday lives. I believe that emotional freedom and personal wholeness are essential for everyone. No matter who we are, life brings challenges—grief, trauma, anxiety, burnout, broken trust, or seasons where we feel lost. To move forward in a healthy way, we all need intentional space to process what we’ve walked through.
I grew up in a Christian home, but for much of my early life I lived out the expectations and beliefs of those around me rather than my own. At 21, I found myself two years into marriage, holding a newborn daughter, and battling severe postpartum depression. I felt like a child raising a child. I was overwhelmed, scared, and unsure how to navigate the darkness I had fallen into.
That moment marked the beginning of a journey that transformed everything about my life. For four years, I struggled through anxiety, panic attacks, and depression. Then one afternoon, in the middle of a panic attack, I reached a turning point. I realized I couldn’t continue living the way I had been. I needed a new path—one that aligned with healing, strength, and a different way of experiencing life. This decision was Jesus, and His lifegiving support. That decision became a defining moment. Hope returned. Peace returned. I felt something shift inside me that set me on a healthier, more intentional path.
A few years into my recovery, an unexpected opportunity opened for me to move from corporate work into a role where I could serve people more directly. I have spent 2 decades—supporting others, building programs, mentoring individuals, and helping people navigate their own journeys toward healing and wholeness. Those years shaped my heart for people and deepened my passion for seeing others thrive.
In June 2021, I stepped away from my role with a global ministry and pursue a new direction that aligned with the growth and healing I had walked through. Two months later, after much reflection and courage, I launched Revive Ministry—a space dedicated to personal freedom, emotional wellness, and whole-life restoration. My goal is to create environments where people feel safe, seen, and empowered to rebuild their lives from the inside out.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I often say that my first 21 years in ministry were defined as boot camp.
My first years in full-time ministry included a major church split that shook everything I knew. It pushed me into a season that tested my resilience, identity, and emotional health. After four years, the Lord asked me to step away, to focus on my family and heal from the trauma and postpartum depression I had never fully addressed.
Those five years at home were both beautiful and brutally honest—I could no longer hide behind busyness. When I reentered ministry, I walked straight into another challenging environment. The church had been through deep turmoil; I stepped into a war zone. For six years I faced heavy resistance, exhaustion, and moments where quitting would have been much easier.
But there were victories too—lives changed, teams rebuilt, and moments where brokenness turned into real beauty. All of it—every setback and every breakthrough—became preparation.
Today, those experiences fuel my work with Revive Ministry and the development of Revive Ranch, a healing retreat for first responders, military members, widows, pastors, and leaders. People who spend their lives serving others deserve a place to recover and rebuild—and that’s the road I’m committed to building now.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
Revive Ministry is a Jacksonville-based organization dedicated to helping people heal, rebuild, and rediscover who they are. We focus on emotional wellness, identity work, trauma-informed support, and whole-person healing. Our approach blends practical tools, psychology, and a Christian spiritually guided process to help people move from survival into freedom.
In phase 1 of the ministry, we have provided one-on-one sessions for many in Duval and Clay county serving individuals from 2 locations. Now that we are in phase 2 of the ministry we are now focused on establishing and building Revive Ranch. A place for first responders, military, widows, church leaders, and pastors can come to personalized programs and therapeutic-style retreats that help navigate anxiety, trauma, burnout, relational pain, and seasons of transition. Everything we offer is designed to create space for people to process their story in a safe, grounded, and intentional way.
What we specialize in / what we’re known for:
I’m known for creating Spirit-led environments where people feel seen, understood, and safe enough to be honest about what they’re walking through. Revive specializes in emotional freedom, identity work, and helping people break unhealthy cycles so they can build a life rooted in clarity, wholeness, and a deeper connection with Jesus as their healer.
What sets us apart:
Revive takes a very personalized approach. Nothing is one-size-fits-all. Every person’s story, background, upbringing, temperament, wounds, and strengths matter—and we build everything around that. We integrate structured healing processes with real-life application so people actually experience change, not just talk about it.
What I’m most proud of brand-wise:
Revive’s brand reflects who we are at our core: calm, hopeful, purposeful, and deeply human. People tell us the moment they see our materials or walk into one of our sessions or events, they feel peace. That matters to me—because healing begins the moment someone feels safe.
What I want readers to know:
Revive Ministry is expanding into something even bigger—Revive Ranch, a retreat center being built to serve first responders, military members, widows, pastors, and leaders. These are people who spend their lives carrying others. The Ranch will be a place where they can rest, recover, and rebuild so they can keep impacting the world without losing themselves in the process.
At its core, Revive exists to help people move from pain to purpose, from burnout to balance, and from survival to true freedom. Whatever someone’s background or beliefs, there’s a place for them here.
We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you?
I don’t tend to see my journey through the lens of luck—good or bad. For me, it’s been a combination of preparation, resilience, timing, and responding to the doors that opened (and the ones that closed). Some seasons felt incredibly difficult, and others felt full of opportunity, but each one shaped me in ways that ultimately strengthened my work and clarified my purpose. All of this lead by the Lord.
Instead of luck, I focus on responsibility and response.
I can’t control everything that happens, but I can control how I show up, how I grow, and how I turn challenges into momentum. The hardships refined me. The breakthroughs motivated me. And the unexpected turns—both the painful ones and the beautiful ones—became the fuel behind Revive Ministry and the future Revive Ranch.
So whether someone calls it luck, timing, or something bigger at work, every part of my journey has contributed to where I am today—and I’m grateful for all of it.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.revive-ministry.org
