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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 Counseling?
In spiritual counseling – sometimes called spiritual direction or spiritual companioning – you create a relationship with a skilled spiritual practitioner who serves as listener or witness, so you may live and grow into greater harmony with the movement of Spirit – Life – within you, what I call, “your Deepest, Wisest Self.”
I think of the spiritual counselor as a catalyst to support you in opening to your Authentic Self, the evolutionary impulse always creating and expressing itself through you.
Spiritual counseling starts with you sharing and reflecting on your spiritual journey and what brings you to a spiritual guide.
I share a body-mind-heart-spirit approach, encouraging embodied awareness in your life and practice.
Sessions may include guided meditation or opening to silence; reflecting on luminous experiences of oneness or dark nights of the soul; facing change and loss; finding guiding questions, setting intentions.
I draw on contemporary and ancient teachings, offered in harmony with your needs and preferences: Together we may explore systems and typologies of spiritual deepening and transformation (e.g., the Enneagram, the 5 Buddha families, Spiral Dynamics, Integral Spirituality, etc.). I share wisdom from Buddhist teachers (e.g., Pema Chodron, Thich Nhat Hanh); neuropsychologist Rick Hanson, mindfulness teachers and researchers (e.g., Daniel Goleman, Richie Davidson, Daniel Siegel), nondual philosophers and teachers like Ken Wilber and Alan Coombs, who propose a framework of states and stages of consciousness, observing that all of life is wired to grow and evolve as circumstance allows.
I am available for one-to-one spiritual counseling and for small groups. I work in-person in northeast Ohio and by Zoom or phone (almost) anywhere.
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 listening, and a commitment o learning and growth.
If you’d like to read about my spiritual journey, click here.
When to Engage a Spiritual Guide
[tabbed tabs=”1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10″] [tab]When you yearn for intimacy with your deepest wisest self, your soul, your guides.[/tab] [tab]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. [/tab] [tab]When you feel stuck in relationship with God, Spirit, Life and are ready to move beyond stuckness.[/tab][tab]When you’re ready for new ways to make meaning in your life.[/tab][tab]When you’re homesick for God, Spirit, and not ready to return to the religious home of your childhood.[/tab][tab]When you need a witness for releasing old blames and hurts in your relationship with God.[/tab][tab]When you’re feeling spiritually dry.[/tab][tab]When your meditation isn’t working.[/tab][tab]When you are ready to put words to your yearnings for the divine and not comfortable doing so only with friends or family.[/tab][tab]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.[/tab][/tabbed]