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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Savoring Our Media + Art Favorites: A Felt Sense Spiritual Practice
What song do you have on repeat? What TV show feels like home? What if it’s a pathway to your inner wisdom?
The Guest House by Rumi
Helena Bonham Carter reads Rumi’s The Guest House. What does this welcoming poem stir in you?
It Can Renew Your Faith in the World
Sometimes an image or phrase can help us gently help us excavate this wisdom (like an archaeologist, not a construction worker!). Here’s a practice to experiment with.
Lifeboats, a poetic short film about coming out
“Know that by the time they get to you, they’ll have mustered every last ounce of courage and buried lots of worry. In fact, getting to your doorstep might be the hardest part of their quest, yet.”
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.
Felt Sense: A tool for noticing + naming our body’s wisdom
Here’s a tool I use in my life and my trauma-informed spiritual direction practice often. Naming our felt sense of something helps us connect with the wisdom of our body.
Sunrise/Sunset: A Practice for Awakening a Weary Soul
Here’s a spacious spiritual practice for joining the earth’s rhythms as a reset for your soul that was inspired by John O’Donohue.
I like you as you are
This episode is food for the soul. I find it deeply resonant with my image of spiritual direction. It is my favorite podcast episode of 2020.