Spiritual Direction, Companioning & Guidance

  • Mary Grigolia Spiritual Direction
  • Mary Grigolia Spiritual Direction

Listening to and Living from Your Deepest, Wisest Self

Are you yearning to live from your own embodied sense of integrity? To deepen your attunement and relationship with Life, Spirit, Presence (whether or not you use the word, ‘God’)?

What is Spiritual Direction?

In spiritual direction, you create a relationship with a skilled listener or witness, so you may live in greater harmony with the movement of Spirit within you, what I call, “your Deepest, Wisest Self.”

I think of the spiritual director as a catalyst to support you in opening to your Authentic Self, the evolutionary impulse always creating and expressing itself through you.

Spiritual direction may incorporate sharing your spiritual journey, opening to silence, reflecting on change and loss, finding powerful questions, setting intentions, sharing guided meditation and visualization. 

I share a body-mind-heart-spirit approach, encouraging embodied awareness in your practice.

I draw on contemporary and ancient teachings, in harmony with your needs and preferences: Right now, I’m reading Buddhist teachers Pema Chodron and Thich Nhat Hanh; neuro-psychologist Rick Hanson, mindfulness students and researchers Daniel Goleman, Richie Davidson and Daniel Siegel. 

To understand your opportunities and obstacles for spiritual deepening, I use a non-dual framework of evolving states and stages of consciousness: We are wired to grow and evolve as circumstance allows.

I am available for one-to-one spiritual direction and for small groups. I work face-to-face with clients in northeast Ohio and by Zoom or phone everywhere.

Contact me for information or to set an appointment.

My Spiritual Journey

If you are considering me as your spiritual guide, I’d like you to know where I’m coming from on my spiritual and religious journey. We don’t need to share the same backgrounds, merely an attunement to compassionate learning and growth. If you’d like to read about my spiritual journey, click here.

When to Engage a Spiritual Guide

When you yearn for intimacy with your deepest wisest self, your soul, your guides.
When you’re looking for a companion on the inner journey who has experience and is there to support you in opening to your own wisdom, not to tell you where to go, what to believe or do. 
When you feel stuck in relationship with God, Spirit, Life and are ready to move beyond stuckness.
When you’re ready for new ways to make meaning in your life.
When you’re homesick for God, Spirit, and not ready to return to the religious home of your childhood.
When you need a witness for releasing old blames and hurts in your relationship with God.
When you’re feeling spiritually dry.
When your meditation isn’t working.
When you are ready to put words to your yearnings for the divine and not comfortable doing so only with friends or family.
When you have questions about your relationship with God, Life, the One, and would like someone to talk with who won’t judge you or try to impose their answers.
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