Healing With Spiritual Direction with Vanessa Sadler

In this episode, Rachael Clinton Chen is joined by Vanessa
Sadler, a trauma-informed spiritual director and contemplative
creative, who brings heartfelt wisdom to the conversation about
healing from personal and collective trauma and abuse. Vanessa
draws on her unique training in the Enneagram, spiritual
direction, and Narrative Focused Trauma Care to explore what
spiritual direction truly is (and what it is not). 


Vanessa highlights the transformative power of spiritual
direction as a vital part of the healing journey, helping to
renew our spiritual imagination and attachment to God, ourselves,
and others. She also shares some contemplative practices and
resources that can support this process, which are linked in the
show notes below.


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Vanessa’s recommended reading list includes: Starting
Spiritual Direction by John Mabry, Meditations of the Heart
by Howard Thurman, and The Gift of Being Yourself by David
Benner. She also references authors Margaret Gunther and
Kaitlin Curtice and therapist Melody Li.




Read more about the Lectio Divina, Visio Divina, and the
practices of kataphatic and apophatic prayer.




Listen to Peace Talks, a podcast hosted by Vanessa Sadler
from the Center for Formation, Justice, and Peace. In particular,
Vanessa references this episode with Linda Royster and Dan
Allender.