About Christine
My personal journey into spiritual direction began after my divorce, which sent me into a very dark place, both emotionally and spiritually. I felt broken, that I had nothing left to offer God or other people. It was a death I had not anticipated, leaving my foundation and identity shattered. I read many books, sought counsel among a few fellow believers and friends, and I embarked on a year-and-a-half journey through Christian counseling, which involved several sessions of inner healing prayer and learning to face my deep pain. During that same time, my friend was going down the road of her own healing and spiritual direction training. At her recommendation, I looked into becoming a spiritual director myself. The timing of it was just like God; I had recently finished up receiving counseling, and when I received the invitation to look into spiritual direction, I sensed that counseling tilled the soil for the deeper work that God was about to do in my heart. I think of spiritual direction as a quiet place where one can meet with another as they seek God together. When I experience spiritual direction as the directee, I know that I feel listened to, heard, understood, and cared for. God’s voice often seems so quiet that it is almost imperceptible, but He is most definitely there. Sometimes He shows up in the most unexpected ways! We just have to get quiet enough to listen, and spiritual direction provides just such the opportunity. Through spiritual direction, God seems to reach deep into our souls over time in this gentle practice.
I have been receiving spiritual direction since 2016, and in May 2018 I graduated from Sustainable Faith’s School of Spiritual Direction. Alongside offering spiritual direction, I have been a veteran English teacher (1999-2021), a lifetime writer, an occasional freelance editor since 2015, and more recently, a school counselor. Additionally, I am a mother of one daughter who is in middle school and a pit bull that thinks she’s my other child.
I have been receiving spiritual direction since 2016, and in May 2018 I graduated from Sustainable Faith’s School of Spiritual Direction. Alongside offering spiritual direction, I have been a veteran English teacher (1999-2021), a lifetime writer, an occasional freelance editor since 2015, and more recently, a school counselor. Additionally, I am a mother of one daughter who is in middle school and a pit bull that thinks she’s my other child.