Category: Spiritual Direction
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Poker Face: Spiritual Direction Lessons from Celebrity Traitors Finale
Spoilers! As a Spiritual Director the Traitors Finale was fascinating. Body language is so important. It is often what we see in our guests as much as what we hear which reveals to us where they really are, even when meeting via zoom. As I watched these two men my heart went out to them.…
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Soul Searching
‘But what would I talk about?’ New directees often tell me that they aren’t sure what to talk about, and then spend the next hour telling me about all sorts of things occasionally pausing for breath. Sitting in silence can also speak volumes, yet most of my Spiritual Direction guests only briefly linger in this…
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New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work
Instead, spend some time listening to your own heart, spend time listening to the God who truly loves you. Perhaps instead of guilting yourself into cutting things out of your life, be loved into identifying and increasing the blessings until there is no room left for those things you would usually seek to eradicate with…
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G&T with God
Oh how wonderful, I thought, to be able to sit with God (She/Her) the wisest of wise women, to be enshrouded in Her love and Wisdom, and laugh over a G&T.
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Finding God
I find myself not drawn to the heart of the ‘holy places’, the ‘holy of holies’, but to the edges
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Live in Love
Next month sees my least favourite ‘holiday’, St Valentine’s Day, and yet I am leading a Petite Retreat based around love. Why?
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Unravelling
‘Unravelling’ often has negative connotations, carrying a sense of falling apart, but it can be positive too. In fact, unravelling can be a really healthy exercise when we get to grips with the knots that shouldn’t be there, or are no longer useful.
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Petite Retreats
There is never any expectation to share, no group discussions. In fact there are no expectations at all. Each Petite Retreat is a gift of time, and food, and space to reconnect with yourself and with God.
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Holy Listening
People have begun to seek me out, and I am honoured, deeply honoured, that people are willing to trust me with their valuable time to hold for a while, the space between heaven and earth in which we occupy.