Spiritual Direction

Spiritual direction, or spiritual companionship, is an opportunity to explore your unique spiritual quest. You are invited to tend to the awareness of the sacred in your life and to how you are being prompted to express that in your daily life. 

 

Marilyn provides a contemplative listening presence to support awareness of your personal relationship with the Divine. 

 

Marilyn holds to the universal spiritual principles of the wisdom traditions, within and beyond religion. Her perspective encompasses Christian Mysticism, Vedanta, and Sufism. She views the personality through the lens of the Enneagram which is a way to help understand our motivations and reactions, so that we can transform how we respond to situations in our life.

 

Marilyn is a member of Spiritual Directors International (SDI), and adheres to the SDI Guidelines for Ethical Conduct. 

 

To learn more about spiritual direction, visit this SDI web page

 

 

“Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an

individual tone and a rhythm of its own.”        Inayat Khan

 

What is Spiritual Direction?

 

• If you are interested in learning about the beliefs, observances, and texts of a religion because you want to know more or seek to more fully identify with that faith community, you are seeking religious education or formation.


• If you want to relieve your anxieties and learn how to understand and deal with their causes, you are seeking psychotherapy.


• If you want insight into how the wisdom of religious tradition might help you understand and respond to your problems, you are seeking pastoral counseling.


• If you wish to deepen your relationship with God so that you can recognize how God’s spirit might be calling you and moving in your life, you are seeking spiritual guidance [spiritual direction].

 

Addison, Howard, Show Me Your Way – The Complete Guide to Exploring Interfaith Spiritual Direction (Woodstock: Skylight Paths Publishing, 2000), 37.

 

 

"Spiritual progress consists in the spontaneous growth

of understanding from within."    Meher Baba

 

One hour sessions are available via Zoom and occasionally in person in Sacramento.

 

If you are interested in spiritual direction with Marilyn, click here