About

I am an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and recently completed a two-year course in spiritual direction with Meadville Lombard Seminary’s LIGHT program. https://www.meadville.edu/light/

After leaving full-time ministry about three years ago, I have created a freelance/entrepreneurial ministry that includes preaching, hospital chaplaincy, religious ceremony officiant, and now I am a spiritual director. My focus as a spiritual director includes life transitions, grief, death/dying, and aging. I am particularly interested in working with religious professionals who would like to remember the presence of the holy in their work. I’ve included a bit of my story below so you can get to know me better. I look forward to getting to know you better, too.

My family lost three members in six months. My father-in-law died July 1, 2019 at the age of 97. My step-daughter died July 29, 2019 at the age of 36 from a brain tumor. My daughter died January 10, 2020 at the age of 28 from alcoholism. I left full-time ministry in June of 2021 in order to spend more time with my family. My daughter was pregnant with twins. I was a caregiver for my best friend who had been diagnosed with an aggressive, terminal cancer in February 2021. My ex-husband dropped dead June 28th; I postponed cleaning out my office at the church for a few days and held my daughter as she sobbed. My best friend died August 14th, sooner than expected. I have lost so much. We have all lost so much.

We live with false binaries. Your problems are worse than mine; my problems are worse than yours. My problems aren’t as bad as the problems of the world, therefore my problems don’t matter. Here’s the thing: your “problems” make you. You make the world.

My faith teaches that we are not alone. My faith teaches about interdependence, that “what affects one affects us all.” The core of every spiritual practice is to access love. Even if we have one fleeting glimpse of love, we will come back for more. We can’t rest in love forever. We have to do something with it. We have to tell our story. Our love story. I want to listen to yours.