“Ecco mi!” What a beautiful common refrain that I would hear in Italy whenever someone I was looking for walked into the room — a simple “here I am” that expresses a gift of presence, that person’s fullness and generous availability.

When you decide to become more intentional about your spiritual life and you want to work with someone to support your creation of the life that you desire, it’s important who you choose to join you along the way. When it comes to being a spiritual director, life coach, teacher, writer and consultant, my experiences have formed how I show up for other people. Moving into this stage of my life after a career as a ministerial and theological administrator and educator, raising four children, surviving cancer and the end of a long marriage, I am excited to support caring people and organizations who seek expansive, holistic growth in their lives. We all do the hard work of transforming obstacles and adversity into blessings along the way and my life has been no different.

Our spiritual journeys truly can meander and wind at times. I do have a religious affiliation that I have an honestly fraught relationship with most of the time. (I will be writing blog posts about this part of my life…) My spiritual journey does include belief in God and mostly Christian practices, but not in a way in which you might guess. For me, the Christian purpose — and yes, the human purpose — is to grow in love every day, bit by bit.

I would love to be there for you for all that your journey involves while you take next steps and we see together the amazing beauty in it all!

Have the courage to go deeply inward and see the way forward.

Marian