Returned to Ourself is a guided Ignatian retreat you make without leaving your life — a weekly reading, a quiet reflection, and a companion who walks the road beside you.
Reflections on the journey toward wholeness — on the peace that finds us when, relieved from trying to become somehow “better,” we live true to ourselves; and on the freedom found when our belovedness moves from a pious concept to the living, breathing person we can be in the world.
The Exercises unfold at the pace of a life, not a calendar. You move through them week by week — never rushed, never behind.
Each week your director sends the next reading — a passage to pray with, chosen for where you are.
You take it slowly, in your own time, and write what stirs in you. There is no right answer.
You meet one to one, unhurried, and your reflections are held with care as the road continues.
I am a spiritual director with a focus on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. I walk with people through the Exercises in daily life — listening, offering the next reading, and holding what stirs in you along the way.
A graduate of the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Claremont, California, and an associate of the Loyola Institute for Spirituality in Orange, California.
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