Soulspace Blog
Grounding + Becoming
Our souls find their way to the art we need.
Words, music, images, and practices can help us move more deeply into our own experiences, longings, and deep knowing.
These collections are curated to guide and accompany you as you attune to your inner landscape and to Love. I’m scattering breadcrumbs from my journey and from wise teachers and mystics before and beside me. Consider this a trailhead, of sorts.
Follow the threads that draw you, and notice what stirs in your soul.
What I’m offering here is an unconventional collection of spiritual direction resources.
You’ll find tools I refer to often, practices to experiment with, readings, notes from me, playlists, and more. I’ve only begun to gather these; feel free to bookmark this page and return as you are drawn.
Love is all around us, friends. I think we sometimes miss it when it doesn’t come packaged the way we’ve come to expect.
If you see something in this collection you’d like to explore together in a spiritual direction session, I welcome that wholeheartedly.
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Good Conversations as Food + Drink for the Soul
John O’Donohue said good conversations are like “food and drink for the soul.” What does this stir in you?
Being with others when they are in pain
I’m always on the look out for ways to be with people more skillfully and artfully. Dr. Ham has some wonderful videos that break complex concepts into simple explanations that make sense to me.
The Soulspace Collective: An Emerging Vision for a Spacious Wisdom Collective
Soulspace is a spacious collective awakening to wisdom. It exists to create spaces for flourishing and belonging through spacious accompaniment, and evocative storytelling.
Audio Divina: Listening deeply with “Gracias a La Vida”
Here’s an invitation into a new-to-me spiritual practice I encountered on the CAC’s instagram site.
It’s All Worth Living For
Poet and storyteller Levi The Poet with a deeply moving plea. This performance carries a frequency of Love in vulnerability, and truth-telling, that evokes awe in me. Which line lingers in you?
Core State Meditation: Holy/Hurt Podcast
This lovely meditation by Dr. Hillary McBride invites us to visit this place John O’Donohue wrote about in the quote above.
You’re On Your Own, But Not Alone
Spirituality is not a side project. It’s about opening more deeply to our life (over time) and holding on for the ride.
Being Human: Beautiful and Ominous
Coming home to our bodies is about recognizing we are complex beings whose present-tense needs are worthy of time and care. These needs are not distractions, but rather, a portal to our deepest wisdom.
Please Come Home, a poem by Jane Hooper
Here’s a poem about coming home to ourselves, to inner wisdom — not as an end in itself, but as the place we perceive the ways we are interconnected.
Why trauma-informed spiritual direction?
What do I mean when I say “trauma-informed” spiritual direction?
Sorrow & Joy
A playlist for days we are holding the paradox of Sorrow & Joy. Naming and feeling our own pain reminds of our connectedness to others, in sorrow and love.
Please tell me what to do
It’s not surprising that when I entered into Spiritual Direction, I walked in the door requesting a plan that would help me be a “better” Christian. I expected to work hard. I felt as if I was entering in with a deficit.