Spiritual Direction, Workshops, Retreats, Enneagram Coaching
God is constantly with us and loving us, but we get distracted and weary in our hurried and busy lives. We slip into serving God and each other out of compulsion and comparison while our souls are longing for authenticity and rest in his presence. Kingdom Soul Care offers the facilitating of prayer practices that invite you into self-awareness, authenticity, and freedom to be your true self. Consider how you can make space to further care for your soul and experience God’s restoring love in spiritual direction, inner healing Immanuel prayer, Enneagram Coaching, workshops, and retreats.
Transformation in becoming your true self in Christ begins with self-awareness in God's loving presence and then nurturing a deeper attachment with him. As we awaken and commune with Him, we then live in emotionally healthy freedom. This spiritual formation has deep roots in our Christian faith.
"Lord, let me know myself; let me know You." — Augustine, Confessions
Retreat is a “planned assault on compulsive busyness, a form of radical surgery to help you slow down and live into the unhurried pace of eternity.” — Sara Park McLaughlin, Meeting God in Silence
A retreat creates space to step away from daily responsibilities to spend time with God. It is not so much a time to learn new things as to remember some of the things we’ve forgotten and soak in God’s presence, word, and transforming love.
Every retreat is unique, and people attest to finding the Lord meets them in new ways. Expect to encounter our Lord in a fresh way!
We don’t withdraw to escape our lives. We withdraw for the time and space apart to focus our full loving attention on God so that we can return to our lives filled with the peace and joy that comes only from God. — Jane Vennard, Be Still
Silence restores equilibrium. It enables us to deepen our relationship with God and to be ourselves. — Sara Park McLaughlin
I am excited to offer several self-guided retreat options for your personal use. Go wherever and whenever it works for you. Each video and corresponding reflections are only $20!
Retreat series: SAYING YES TO GOD. What we say yes to, and what we say no to, shapes the trajectory of the rest of our lives. We desire to live in full agreement with God and give Him our YES.
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After you choose a video, you will receive a link for it the next day in your email along with the Reflection Questions for further meditation and journaling. As a bonus, I am including a FREE gift of my new "Personal Retreat Guide" to download and get you started. It offers suggestions to prepare for your retreat, practical tips, a possible schedule for your day, and guides for prayer and journaling.
Spiritual direction invites us to journey together, believing God is speaking and acting in every area of our lives. Spiritual direction is a companionship of listening and discernment as you reflect on your life experiences and struggles. In this confidential and compassionate conversation, you will become more aware of what is happening in yourself, and the ways you have cooperated or resisted God’s grace and love.
The spiritual life is a treacherous journey when we travel alone. Spiritual directors are companions on this road...to listen, help us clarify motivations, and recognize destructive patterns...who don’t judge us or tell us what to do. We need people who encourage us to reach within and listen to the Holy Spirit for our directions for the future, and who challenge us to stand up and reclaim our identity as the beloved sons and daughters we are. - Henri Nouwen, Home Tonight
Immanuel prayer for your inner healing journey starts with the presumption that God is always present and longs for a deeper connection with each of us. In this facilitated session, you will be guided to connect with God on a deeply intimate level, most often in the context of a memory of appreciation. As your attachment deepens, your interaction with God brings more joy, healing, and freedom from fears and inner vows that result from trauma.
No matter where one is on his/her spiritual journey there is always more of God to experience in deeper intimacy and connection. Facilitated Immanuel Prayer increases one’s capacity for grace for yourself as well as for others. The goal is emotional maturity found in a securely attached relationship with God.
The Enneagram can be a very effective tool in our spiritual formation journey. It provides a helpful framework to describe how we each amazingly reflect God’s image (our True-Self), as well as how our sin patterns can distort and mar that image (our False-Self). The Enneagram opens you to an extraordinary view to the truth about you. It can help you recognize your unique gifting. It is simply a 9-point diagram and model for self-discovery and personal growth based on nine basic personality styles that describe the ways you think, feel, and behave based on your core fears and motivations. The journey invites you to know God and yourself, and have deeper compassion for others.
Workshops and one-on-one coaching invite you to live more fully awake in your true self identity in Christ.
I offer workshops on the following topics:
Jesus calls us to retreat: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." Matt. 11:28 A silent retreat offers the privilege and freedom to concentrate our attention fully on God; desiring deeper intimacy, we seek Him with our body and soul. In a sense going on a silent retreat is an act of faith: not demanding a specific outcome, simply coming to God with empty hands…
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'Puzzling' is a contemplative time as I relax and enjoy music playing in the background. My eyes scan the separated pieces on the table attempting to match shape and size, while my mind wanders with the words of the worship song in longing for more wholeness in body, soul, and spirit. The scattered pieces invite a prayer for healing of what may still be the broken and unrecognized pieces of my…
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Have you ever been in a mall and thrown a nickel into one of those large, funnel-shaped, coin banks? The coin circles around the top several times, over and over, being held in place by the centrifugal force. Gradually, it goes deeper and deeper as it circles faster and faster, all the way down the vortex. It eventually drops into the depths along with all the other coins that have gone before it…
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Michael Nelson. The Christian life has room for all who will come, as it sanctifies the vocation of soldiers, peasants, bishops, politicians, and merchants alike. The vast universality of Christian life and the potential for growth therein is underscored in the vocation of St. Simeon Stylites, who ministered sitting atop a pillar for thirty-seven years. St. Simeon was a city on a hill; his…
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