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“In the silence of the heart, God will speak.” ~ St. (Mother) Teresa of Calcutta

Spiritual direction is a ministry of presence through wholly listening. For a sacred hour, two people attend together to the presence of God in one person's life: its ordinary days and its thresholds, its sorrows and its quiet hopes. The space we share is holy ground. It is not mine. I am simply entrusted with its care.

As a grief-informed spiritual director, I offer that space with unhurried attention and without agenda. My role is to listen alongside you for the movements of the Spirit, offer gentle questions, and honour your agency and readiness to respond to God in your own way. You may be standing at an ending, longing for a deeper well, or simply wondering where God is in the life you are living. Whatever brings you, you are welcome.

Much of my work also involves accompanying those who grieve. Grief often goes unseen, and we live in a world that has largely forgotten how to listen to the layered complexities of disenfranchised, anticipatory, cultural, gendered, familial, and intergenerational loss - both primary and tertiary. Through one-on-one care, grief care circles, and presentations in organizations and faith communities, I seek to nurture sacred space where sorrow can be named, understood, and tended to.

“Between God and the soul, there is no between.”~ Julia of Norwich

My own story has been shaped by many places. Born in well-governed British Hong Kong, I have made my home in Toronto and Vancouver for the past 33+ years. I was raised in the Catholic tradition, nurtured for many years among Baptists and in the Christian & Missionary Alliance, and now worship in the sacramental tradition of Anglicanism. A life lived across lands, cultures, and languages, alongside years of executive work in community engagement and organizational advancement, has made me curious about the nature and place of the self. This deep enquiry has drawn me into attunement with the self within and with the selves of others, whose journeys cross boundaries. God is present in every story, and I am invited to behold with openness the truth, beauty, wonder, and perplexity of human experience in all its forms.

My formal spiritual direction training includes a two-and-a-half-year programme in spiritual direction with Anam Cara Ministries, a Certificate in Death, Dying and Grief from Tyndale Seminary, and the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius in Daily Life (19th Annotation) through New College Berkeley. I am nearing completion of my first master’s degree at Regent College in Vancouver, with a particular interest in theology and the arts.

"Everybody has a vocation to some form of life-work. However, behind that call (and deeper than that call), everybody has a vocation to be a person to be fully and deeply human in Christ Jesus." ~ Brennan Manning, Franciscan Priest and writer

Your placedness, socio-cultural memories, and lived experiences all telegraph your spiritual biography. My hope is that you find comfort in the nearness of Christ, who can unveil what is hidden and breathe new meaning and life into what you carry. Come rest, be supported, be metamorphosed by the love of God, and be guided and illuminated in your spiritual direction journey.

You are welcome here.

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