Reflections

2010-2011 Soul Care for Compassionate Listeners Professional and personal growth through supervision and the expressive arts for Spiritual Directors, Chaplains, Counselors, & Pastors committed to compassionate listening and care of souls. with Kayce Stevens Hughlett, MA, LMHC & Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, REACE October 2010-May 2011 – Monthly group meeting on Friday mornings in Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA Please Note: Our first two groups filled quickly so we have added a third group on a different set of Friday mornings (see flyer for specific dates & details) Limited to 6 participants $600 for all 8 sessions / $100 non-refundable deposit to

If you are in the Seattle, Tacoma, or Olympia area consider joining St Placid Priory Spirituality Center for their program in Christian spirituality and prayer.  I don’t currently teach the program although helped to establish it a few years ago. I wholeheartedly recommend it for anyone looking to deepen their understanding and practice of diverse forms of Christian prayer. *Tending the Fire*, Christian Spirituality and Prayer, is a nine-month retreat program designed to explore diverse Christian traditions and prayer practices that deepen one’s spiritual journey and personal faith life. It meets semi-monthly on Tuesday afternoons from 1-4pm and will begin

It is a time of many endings and beginnings for me, a threshold space as I let go and embrace again and again.  I am making more room for my Abbey work and that fills my heart with joy.  I find it is requiring a lot of energy for me to be fully present, so unfortunately this space is getting a bit neglected for the time being In another week or two there will be a new design to this website which I am very excited about.  After four years it is time for some updating and a new look

I sink into the silence and stillness.  Solitude calls my name and shows me my reflection as a sacred offering.  Here in this place the sea asks me to embrace my truth once again.  The hummingbird invites me to sip holy nectar, the heron to stretch out my wings, the gulls to remember my flock.  In each shell is an epiphany, each smooth stone offers a revelation.  I watch and witness as the sun slowly makes her long arc across the sky and discover my own rising and falling.  The tides are singing of quiet miracles – like those which