What Spiritual Mentoring can do for you:
  • Receive more personal and professional guidance with your spiritual questions and life
  • Have a skilled mentor on your transitions in life
  • Discover how your vocational and creative life are part of your spiritual path
  • Become unstuck from habit energy that inhibits moving your life forward
  • Or return to spiritual practices you once found meaningful but have since lost
  • Recover from any abusive encounters with false shamans, narcissistic therapists or selfish (Spiritual) teachers
  • Claim your own true spiritual and creative path (and heal from any negative experiences)
  • Regain or discover a strong connection to your Higher Power and Inner Source 
  • Discover and trust your personal spiritual path; your personal legend
  • Know that there is an authentic path for you
  • Recognize yourself as a Meaning Maker
You are in the right place...
Whether you consider yourself on a spiritual path or searching for one, I am here to be of support and to mentor you on your personal discovery of what is meaningful for you. With 40 years of counseling and mentoring people, author of 11 books on spiritual  and psychological independence and well-being, with training in trauma informed practices, Lo Jong (mind training) meditation, self-compassion, somatic experiencing. yoga, breathwork, narrative medicine and ceremony, I am confident and sincere in my work. I live an active spiritual life.  

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I understand that you have your own unique path to take, both inward and outward. That each of us is a meaning maker and can discover, define and relate to our own truth. You become the cause of your life.  You identify or strengthen your inner resources. You become who you are always meant to be. I use ancient and contemporary, evidence based practices and explorations that will guide you to your truest self and path.  

I also have mentored people diagnosed with cancer, some transitioning through dying, some who come to learn to live fully as a cancer survivor. 
How we do this. . .

 No one can take our spiritual journey for us. We don’t become awakened or find peace based on the wisdom path of others. We become awakened to our truest spiritual path based on our own explorations, practices, and choices. So in this mentoring you are given practices and explorations to discover your own path, where your journey results in a more conscious, ethical life, a life that benefits both yourself and others. A life rooted in meaningful spiritual practices and principles. 

We use one of my books  or Be The Cause On line class as our guiding mechanism. We meet up 3 times a month in a 30 minute one to one, live mentoring session. I give you explorations and journaling/contemplative prompts for the week (just for you and based on our conversation), you read and engage in the on-line class (a lesson a week), or a chapter in the book (a month).  We start with you setting an intention and we go from there. 

Depending on where you are on your journey, and where you want to be, we choose and design a unique journey just for you! 

So where do you want to be spiritually in 3months? In 6 months or a year from now?  

You commit to a minimum of 3 months. If you choose to use the Be The Cause Class as your tool of exploration and awakening, the class is a free BONUS and part of the Mentoring agreement.  (A $75 a month value).  Check out my books for some more insight to how you might want to approach this journey together.  I will likely recommend other authors and teachers as complimentary to your explorations. We will keep this simple and focused on your intentions, your desire for a more grounded and meaningful spiritual life. 

A special note to those exiting a cult or other mind-control programs. This could be for you if you are trying to exit a fundamentalist  religion, or free yourself from the grasp of dogmatic teachings, a religious or psychological cult, or are dealing with any kind of spiritual or religious trauma. I am versed in decades of healing from the effects of such traumatic encounters and programs. 

This could be for you if what you need is a Spiritual Friend, a professional guide, a Mentor to help you navigate your possibilities.  

What do I mean by "Spiritual"...

In one line spiritual means we are exploring the question, “Who am I?”

Ethical and usable spiritual practices allow you this curiosity and exploration of the question, "Who am I," which also answers how do I belong?

Who am I in my living?  Who am I in my dying? 
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Since beginning my spiritual search at the age of eight, I found myself in the presence of awakened ministers, fundamentalist preachers, wounded healers, narcissistic medicine men, authentic gurus, spiritual masters, and everyday goddesses. I relied on the written word of ancient masters and the I Ching to guide me when there were no teachers available. I chose to be baptized at thirteen by a Lutheran minister who later left the clergy. I continued on my spiritual path that started out as a seeker and searcher and arrived as a meaning maker. Today my spiritual practices includes  Lo Jong (mind training),
Ānāpānasati  meditation (mindful breathing), simple yoga practices at home, consulting the I Ching and relying on a regular reading of poetry. 

"Spirituality I take to be concerned with those qualities of the human spirit—such as love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony—which brings happiness to both self and others. While ritual and prayer, along with the questions of nirvana and salvation, are directly connected to religious faith, these inner qualities need not be, however. There is no reason why the individual should not develop them, even to a highest degree, without recourse to any religious or metaphysical belief system. This is why I sometimes say that religion is something we can perhaps do without. What we cannot do without are these basic spiritual qualities." –The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Ethics for the New Millennium ​
Daiju visited the master Baso in China. Baso asked: What do you seek?

“Enlightenment,” replied Daiju.

“You have your own treasure house. Why do you search outside?” Baso asked.

Daiju inquired: “Where is my treasure house?”

Baso answered: “What you are asking is your treasure house.”

Daiju was enlightened! Ever after he urged his friends: “Open your own treasure house and use those treasures.”

–Paul reps and nyogen senzaki,  from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones 

In the story above, Daiju comes to understand that what he seeks is carried within. He understands that his innate curiosity is a treasure in itself. He comes home to himself but cannot contain himself; he must share his gift in service to others. He finds his treasure house. Daiju comes full circle, as each of us can—we begin by wondering where our treasures are. where is yours? what, up until now, have you been searching for? Where have you been looking for meaning? it’s human nature to want to make our lives fulfilling personally, vocationally, and in our relationships. We all want to feel good about what we are doing with our lives.   

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