Where Do You Go for Soul Counsel?

Quick question: where do you go when your heart needs guidance — not your career or your relationships, but your actual soul? When the work of justice feels too heavy to carry alone?

Most of us have this figured out for everything else. Therapists for our minds. Doctors for our bodies. Financial advisors for our money. Personal trainers for our fitness goals. But when our spirits need tending? When we're wrestling with questions that keep us awake under the moon's light?

• Am I living my purpose?
• How do I stay rooted when the world feels chaotic?
• When my values conflict with tactics, how do I discern right action?
• What does the Sacred ask of me in this moment?

We're often left fumbling in the dark.

Sunset, Sandpiper Beach, Oregon, Photo by Hawthorne Post

The Three Wells of Wisdom

Spiritual companioning creates space to draw from all three wells of wisdom:

• Moon wisdom — the celestial knowledge of sacred teachings, ancient practices, and institutional wisdom that has guided seekers for millennia.
• Forest wisdom — the interconnected knowing that emerges from community, relationship, and our recognition that we don't walk this path alone.
• Bone wisdom — the deep inner knowing that lives in your body, your intuition, the truth that no institution can give you because it's already planted in your bones.

This is where justice makers come when activism burns them out but the calling remains. Where earth tenders seek discernment about their next right action. Where League of Women Voters organizers and  ministers and Pagans and all kinds of spiritual care providers learn to trust the deeper knowing that emerges when all three sources of wisdom are honored.

Because when you're connected to your source of meaning — really connected — you have strength and resources for the long work ahead that you simply can't access any other way.

Sacred Questions Need Sacred Space

Spirit tending isn't therapy — though it can be healing. It isn't advice-giving — though clarity often emerges. It isn't religious instruction — though it honors the sacred however you understand it.

It's companion work for the deep questions. The ones that matter most. The ones that shape how you show up in a world that desperately needs your gifts.

When the headlines break your heart daily, where do you go to tend that grief and find strength to continue? When you feel called to something but aren't sure what, who walks alongside you in the discernment? When your spiritual practice feels stale or your activism feels hollow, where do you go to reconnect with the fire that first lit your path?

Sacred questions need sacred space. And sacred space is what the work of spiritual direction provides.

Beloved, you are whole, holy, and worthy,
Rev. Amy

Companioning soul-weary change-makers becoming rooted, aligned, and alive again.