I am a child of the Southern black church in the United States. In my early 30s, I went through major upheaval in my faith and spiritual practice. Now, I use my lineage, my mysticism, and my constantly explorative spirituality to support individuals and groups who want to grow in alignment, confidence, and freedom in their spiritual practice.

In short, I am a mystic, creative, and certified Spiritual Director committed to our collective liberation. I facilitate spaces of exploration, healing, and collaboration.

Approach

I engage in spiritual direction as personal and collective, formal and informal, mystic-positive, and oriented toward liberation. As a mystic with a dynamic and constantly explorative spirituality, my practice involves moving with, sensing, and listening for where the Spirit (the “What is this?!”) is active and responding authentically with our whole selves. I value sifting, integrating, and expanding the ways in which our upbringings have packaged our understanding of spirit, ourselves, and our sense of what is and can be real.

Education & Experience

Though significant parts of my development as a spiritual director came from informal mentors, I hold a Master’s in Spiritual Direction - fully a “Master’s in Christian Spirituality with a focus on Spiritual Direction” - from Loyola University Chicago’s Institute of Pastoral Studies. There I centered my studies on spiritual practice in communities actively working toward equity and liberation.

While the focus on Christian Spirituality in my degree was so helpful in processing and working with my background, I incorporate all of my spiritual experience and learning in what I do.

Some of my other areas of study and experience are: paying attention to the body, authentic communication, decolonizing/ re-imaging faith, embracing paradox and wildness, and integration of divergent spiritual experience.

Accountability

I receive quarterly supervision as part of my partnership with Soul Reparations.