about

Lune Spirituality

 
 

My mission is to offer a warm and loving presence in spiritual direction to those seeking depth, clarity, and healing in their spiritual life.

values

Awareness
Inviting gentle awareness for the sake of greater authenticity and freedom.

Hospitality
Welcoming all people and all experiences with warmth and care.

Compassion
Holding all people and all experiences with empathetic compassion and non-judgment.

Perseverance
Practicing staying with our experience to heal and grow.

Trust
Cultivating an environment of trust, which forms the basis of connection, growth, and healing.

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Spiritual Direction

WHAT IS SPIRITUAL DIRECTION?

Spiritual direction is a soul friendship between two people that focuses on the inner life. Together we might explore with things such as your sense of purpose, your image of God, internalized messages from your religious background, parts of yourself that are difficult to accept, new spiritual practices, your deepest desires, and more.

As spiritual director, I offer a warm spaciousness and listen contemplatively to help you notice, feel, and respond to your experiences in relationship to God, self, and others. I will offer reflective statements, thoughtful questions, and affirming awarenesses designed to help you go deeper. This all occurs in a container of safety, love, and non-judgment.

We meet once or twice per month depending on your desires.

WHo might benefit from spiritual direction?

Spiritual direction is for anyone seeking to connect with or deepen their spiritual life in a safe and welcoming environment. My practice tends to resonate with those longing for any of the following:

Healing from your religious background, such as:

  • Painful messages you received about yourself and how you “should” be

  • An unloving image or experience of God

  • Shame about your imperfect past or present

  • Feeling like you can’t fully be yourself in religious settings

  • Feeling deeply spiritual but not feeling at home in church

Connection to God, self, and others, such as:

  • Deeper personal relationship with God

  • The inner freedom to be who and how God created you

  • Spiritual practices that foster your connection to God

  • Growing in love, peace, joy, trust, patience, compassion

  • Greater awareness of the sacred in the ordinary

Discernment of a life decision or direction, such as:

  • Your sense of purpose, values and/or vocation

  • Your way of being in the world

  • Marriage, parenthood, a move, a career change

  • Loving boundaries

Loving support in difficult times, such as:

  • Loss and grief

  • Big life transitions

  • Flare-ups of fear or anxiety

HOW DO WE MEET?

We can meet in-person if you are in Minnesota, or virtually if you are located elsewhere. Typically we meet once per month for spiritual direction, although some elect to meet twice per month for added support.

 
 
 
 

ABOUT

Lindsay McGlynn

 
 

As a spiritual director, I have been formed in the contemplative Christian traditions of Benedictine and Ignatian spirituality. I receive nourishment from these spiritualities, and from Christian mysticism more broadly, as well as from the beauty I experience in nature, writing, art, and life-giving relationships.

When I was younger, my image of God was judgmental and exacting, which made me feel afraid and kept me caught in shame-based perfectionism. Complicating matters, I repeatedly heard the refrain to be “more like Jesus,” which meant to be more perfect and less like myself.

In healing my image of God with the faithful help of others, I began to experience a gentle and compassionate God who welcomes me fully as I am. This has (and continues) to open my heart. From this basis of loving welcome, I came to understand that to be “more like Jesus” really means to be more authentically myself, a process that comes with it all – pain, tears, sorrow, beauty, joy, freedom. Now, one of the questions I live is: How can I best be a loving presence in the world as my true self?

A longing to share this healing experience of God is what led me to spiritual direction and companionship. We all have places in us in need of God’s loving welcome, and spiritual direction offers the time and space to receive – and respond to – that welcome.

 
 

Education

+ Mind-Body Coaching Certificate
The Embody Lab, 2023

+ M.A. Ministry
St. John’s University School of Theology, 2020

+ Graduate Certificate – Spiritual Direction
St. John’s University School of Theology, 2020

+ Graduate Certificate – Spirituality and Leadership
St. Catherine University, 2018