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Welcome to Reflections on the Spiritual Life

Here you will find articles on spiritual direction, psychology and spirituality, contemplative practice, and the deeper movements of the spiritual life. Drawing on decades of experience in psychospiritual work and spiritual accompaniment, these reflections explore themes such as shadow material, struggles in spiritual practice, images of God, dreamwork, and the emotional dynamics that shape the spiritual journey.

Whether you are seeking support in your own inner life or resources for spiritual direction practice,

I hope these writings offer clarity, depth, and encouragement.

Two empty wooden chairs facing each other outdoors on a leafy path, with soft, warm light filling the space between them.

Love in the Spiritual Direction Room

A shared space, held in quiet presence Love is not an easy word to speak in the context of spiritual direction. For many, it carries immediate associations with blurred boundaries, unconscious need, or emotional over-involvement — risks that are rightly taken seriously in one-to-one work. In a professional climate shaped by psychological awareness and ethical concern, caution around love can feel both necessary and responsible. And yet, the absence of love is rarely named wit

Watercolor painting of a garden with a central fountain, surrounded by colorful flowers and palm trees, representing the temenos of the inner garden. A enclosing wall and door in are in the foreground

Temenos: The Sacred Space of Spiritual Direction

When applied to spiritual direction, the ancient concept of temenos particularly offers a revealing and helpful metaphor for the sacred relational field that takes place between director and directee.

Rublev’s Trinity icon, an image of sacred companionship and contemplative presence, expressing the relational heart of spiritual direction.

Describing Spiritual Direction : Voices from a Living Tradition

A sacred conversation held within the life of God. Spiritual direction is often described today in careful, well-established ways — as a contemplative, supportive accompaniment that helps a person attend to God’s presence in their life. These descriptions are not wrong. Yet they are not the whole story. Across Christian history, spiritual direction has been understood, practised, and named in many different ways, shaped by context, temperament, theology, and human need. Rath