Embodied Spiritual Direction: Healing Back Into God
For the weary, wounded, or burned out—a gentle return to enlivened relationship with God through the wisdom of the body.
Into the Holy Into the Healing
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Meet Kevin Sharpe
Holding Sacred Space for Your Spiritual Relationship to Unfold
Spiritual director and educator Kevin Sharpe supports others as they heal back into God. Through his writings, in-person group workshops, retreats, and one-on-one spiritual direction, he offers a fresh voice and perspective from the margins. His emphasis on teaching centered prayer and developing discernment skills equips those wounded by religion with the essential tools they need to journey through forgiveness and into healing.
What Is Embodied Spiritual Direction?
Embodied spiritual direction is a sacred partnership that helps you journey more deeply into a healthy relationship with God, guided by a trusted companion. Its unique approach begins by recognizing that we are souls living fully in physical bodies. This approach honors the embodied experience—how our body shapes and reveals our relationship with God, ourselves, and others.
Through imagination- and body-based contemplative practices, Kevin Sharpe supports clients in healing back into God and cultivating clear awareness of how God is present in their lives. Together, they explore how to live more authentically and deeply, integrating mind, body, and spirit in an ongoing relationship with God and community.
Kevin offers packages of 4, 6, or 8 sessions, each lasting 50 to 60 minutes, conducted by phone or online. To learn more about working with Kevin, see the section below.
From Disconnection to Felt PResence
Many show up feeling disconnected or even carrying deep God wounds: the weight of religious trauma, the exhaustion of burnout, or the encounter with spiritual dryness.
Embodied spiritual direction offers a gentle, grounded path to reclaim your wholeness, inviting you to heal back into God not only in your mind but deeply in your body and soul. It creates space for letting all parts of your story be heard and honored. Through listening and bearing witness, you begin to hold your story with compassion, and healing emerges through the lived experience of presence and embodiment.
Books To support your Journey
Centering Prayer: Healing Our God Wound
If you suffer from God wounds or religion wounds, 'Centering Prayer: Healing Our God Wound' offers a transformative approach to centered prayer that facilitates healing back into God. This method of Christian contemplative prayer aims to restore and deepen your fractured relationship with the divine. The book explores centered prayer thro
If you suffer from God wounds or religion wounds, 'Centering Prayer: Healing Our God Wound' offers a transformative approach to centered prayer that facilitates healing back into God. This method of Christian contemplative prayer aims to restore and deepen your fractured relationship with the divine. The book explores centered prayer through new and non-triggering language, reinterpreting essential Christian concepts that may have previously been associated with fear, control, and judgment. By reframing these ideas, the intention is to enrich your experiences in spiritual direction and make your centered prayer practice more vibrant and life-affirming.
God Among Us: Dismantling Spiritual Bypassing
Live a liberated life. Get real with yourself and your relationships. Most people avoid living life authentically and fully. Instead of embracing real life, many prefer to use spirituality as a means to avoid pain, often bypassing the journey of healing back into God. While this is the story many people choose to live, it doesn’t have to
Live a liberated life. Get real with yourself and your relationships. Most people avoid living life authentically and fully. Instead of embracing real life, many prefer to use spirituality as a means to avoid pain, often bypassing the journey of healing back into God. While this is the story many people choose to live, it doesn’t have to be the narrative you settle for. Choose the story that begins with a star—the Epiphany story. As you enter into the Epiphany story, you’ll change how you live life. Join Kevin Sharpe as he guides you on a transformative journey of self-discovery and healing through spiritual direction. Using the story of the Magi, you’ll delve into the intimate world of your interior landscape. You’ll acknowledge and release attempts to spiritually bypass and confront any fear you may be holding onto. Ultimately, you’ll move into the very presence of Emmanuel, this God Among Us, who is the King of the Universe, yet whose appearance takes the form of a vulnerable newborn child.
I Am Here: The Healing Journey of Caregiving
I Am Here: The Healing Journey of Caregiving
The act of caregiving is a journey that offers incredible potential for a mutual or reciprocal healing – the healing of the one receiving care and the healing of the caregiver, too. Within the pages of I am Here: The Healing Journey of Caregiving, you will discover the five different interior aspects of the healing journey of the caregive
The act of caregiving is a journey that offers incredible potential for a mutual or reciprocal healing – the healing of the one receiving care and the healing of the caregiver, too. Within the pages of I am Here: The Healing Journey of Caregiving, you will discover the five different interior aspects of the healing journey of the caregiver. Integrating each of these five aspects can help you not only reduce the effects of caregiver stress but also guide you towards centered prayer, which facilitates healing back into God. This practice, along with spiritual direction, can provide you with truths that naturally transform the life of anyone providing care for another. For those exploring this inner landscape, there awaits a mystical, alchemical, healing transformation – one that unfolds and leaves us living in relationship in a bigger, more authentic, and more intimate way.
Other Offerings
Talks and Workshops
If you're interested in Kevin Sharpe giving a talk or teaching a workshop on any of his books, including topics like centered prayer, healing back into God, or spiritual direction, use the button below to reach out and start a conversation.
Community Discernment
If your spiritual community or organization is in need of facilitated group discernment, especially regarding centered prayer or healing back into God, use the button below to reach out to Kevin Sharpe and start a conversation about spiritual direction.
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Landing in your body is the first step to getting real.
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Be with each moment. Bear witness to what actually is.
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