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Anamchara

Spiritual direction, one person at a time. In the Celtic tradition an anamchara was a soul friend — not a teacher, not a counsellor, someone who paid attention alongside you.

Spiritual direction is not therapy, counselling, medical or psychiatric care, and is not a substitute for any of them. If you are in crisis, please contact a doctor or a crisis line — in the US and Canada, call or text 988.

Tell us what you need

Five short questions. We write back a reading with one place to begin — free, and yours whether you buy anything or not.

What brings you here

What brings you here?

Choose as many as are true. Most people choose three.

A death or a loss

Anxiety or fear that will not settle

A decision I have to make

Prayer has gone dry or silent

Coming back after years away

I want to begin and do not know how

Recovery or an old habit

Marriage or family

Doubt I cannot talk about at church

I am exhausted

Where your practice stands

Where does your practice stand right now?

No right answer. This changes what we hand you first.

I have never really had oneNothing to undo. We start at the beginning.

I had one once and driftedYou are not resuming. You are starting as who you are now.

I keep at it but it has gone dryThe oldest and best-documented part of the road.

It is steady but I am stuckUsually a different question is needed

Time and accompaniment

How much time, and how much company?

Answer for the life you actually have, not the one you mean to have.

Time you can give most days

Five minutes

Fifteen minutes

Half an hour or more

How you would like to be accompanied

On my own

with something to followMaterials you keep and work through yourself.

Someone to meet with regularlyOne-to-one direction at a steady interval.

In your own words

Anything you want to say plainly

Optional, but it changes what we point you to. Nobody but us reads it.

In your own words

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