What I do.

One on One Spiritual Guidance

I walk alongside others on the path of healing and offer guidance to help seekers find their soul’s deepest longing.

Teaching

I facilitate workshops, lead retreats, and give talks on living a wholehearted and soulful life. As a lecturer at Yale Divinity School, my classes focus on helping emerging spiritual leaders find their voice and express their deepest convictions.

Writing

I’m finishing a book of daily meditations on how to live with tenderness, peace, and compassion in a harsh and disconnected world.

Leadership

I direct the Office of Transforming Leaders, a leadership training center for spiritual leaders at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale.

Values that guide my work.

• Tenderness

• Curiosity

• Compassion

• movement as Medicine

• Courage

• Steadfast work

• Trust

What I believe.

These are the 25 guiding principles that have guided my work for over two decades. I find myself returning to these beliefs over and over again to guide healing, growth, and spiritual self-discovery.

1. I believe everything we do, no matter how small, makes a difference.

2. I believe that healing is always possible and that there is an inner wholeness we can all discover.

3. I believe tenderness toward self and others is needed more than ever.

4. I believe we are not separate from our Source. All of us have an inner wholeness that is our original nature.

5. I believe we are all being held by infinite Love.

6. I believe in the infinite worth of all people and the world around us.

7. I believe that if we do not believe in something greater than ourselves, we will believe in something smaller than ourselves.

8. I believe uncertainty and change describe the nature of the universe.

9. I believe being truly present to each other feels a lot like love.

10. I believe the deepest wisdom requires paradox to transcend the dualistic mind.

11. I believe growth is not linear.

12. I believe self-care and community care are interdependent.

13. I believe the most constructive critique of what’s inadequate, broken, and unjust is the embodiment of what’s more whole, healed, and just.

14. I believe that while you can’t be grateful for every moment, you can be grateful in every moment.

15. I believe contemplative practice and compassionate action are mutually dependent.

16. I believe pain that is not transformed is transferred.

17. I believe we learn balance by being out of balance.

18. I believe we are hardwired for connection.

19. I believe the act of noticing itself is healing.

20. I believe change is painful. Not changing is also painful. We must choose our pain wisely.

21. I believe we are all holding invisible wounds in need of compassion.

22. I believe there is always time for the work you are called to do.

23. I believe hard work will always be required to live with integrity.

24. I believe the entire path is rarely revealed all at once; our work is to take the next wise step.

25. I believe it is not your duty to finish the work of healing the world, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it. (Pirkei Avot 2:16)

Wisdom Teachers that Have shaped my work

Barbara Brown Taylor, adrienne maree brown, Brené Brown, Pema Chodron, Ram Das, Meister Eckhart, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jon Kabat Zinn, Jack Kornfield, Thomas Keating, Ruth King, Peter Levine, Thomas Merton, John O’Donohue, Mary Oliver, Lisa Miller, Jesus of Nazareth, Henri Nouwen, Richard Rohr, Marshall Rosenburg, Sharon Salzberg, Dan Sigel, Phil Stutz, Eckhart Tolle.