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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The Farm: An evocative short-film
This evocative short-film has been soul nourishment for me. What does it stir in you?
Contemplative Curiosity: Mary Oliver on Praying
What does Mary Oliver’s instruction on prayer evoke in you? Here’s an invitation to engage with her words contemplatively.
Everything is Going to Be Alright
What words shimmer for you in this poem? What arises in you as you hold those words?
How to Be Alone by Pádraig Ó Tuama, An On Being Poetry Short Film
This is an evocative poem in Ó Tuama’s own voice. What words stick with you when you listen/watch? What is your felt sense of the poem?
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.
Trees, a poem by Howard Nemerov
Here’s an invitation to engage with poetry as a prism for Spirit. What words shimmer for you in this poem?
Note to Self
Waiting for medical test results on this particular day, I found it difficult to get a deep breath. I also found thinking complicated, as worst-case scenarios danced in my head. I took a walk, capturing images along the way. As I contemplated this image, my soul gifted me a blessing.
What My Soul Already Knew
There’s no formula. No charted path. You must listen to God within you.
Teju Cole – And Then You Have This Moment
This short video produced by On Being Studios provides an invitation to notice what moves us. What does it stir in you?