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 values the universal truths reflected in all spiritual traditions. She offers a sacred companionship for others to explore questions of spirituality and meaning, which may happen within and/or outside traditional religious belief.

Marilyn is an Esoteric Christian minister with a Master’s of Divinity and has been a long-time teacher of contemplative practices.  Her diverse interspiritual background spans Christian mysticism, Sufism, and Advaita (nondual thought). Her calling as a spiritual director led her to the Franciscan Spiritual Center in Oregon where she was immersed in Franciscan spirituality.

Sessions are available via Zoom and occasionally in person in Sacramento.

Marilyn is certified as a Spiritual Director through the Franciscan Spiritual Center.  She is a member of Spiritual Directors International (SDI) and adheres to the SDI Guidelines for Ethical Conduct.

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

To learn more about spiritual direction, contact Marilyn