Companioning you through love, loss, healing, and becoming.
Human beings spend their lives crossing thresholds.
Some arrive unexpectedly through illness, grief, loss, caregiving, or a life-changing diagnosis. Others are entered intentionally through ceremony, pilgrimage, spiritual practice, vocation, marriage and the commitments that shape a life.
These crossings ask something of us. They invite us to let go of what has been, encounter what is, and step toward what is emerging.
My work is centered on accompanying people and communities through these thresholds, sacred journeys, and processes of becoming.
For more than two decades, I have explored this work as a board-certified chaplain, educator, ritual leader, writer, researcher, and guide.
Whether sitting beside a hospital bed, walking with someone through grief, training future chaplains, creating ceremony, studying pilgrimage, exploring emerging research, or reflecting on the deeper questions of this thing called life, I return again and again to the same question:
How do we navigate life's most meaningful crossings with deep listening and in alignment with our soul’s journey?
Three Streams
My work unfolds through three interconnected streams.
Care
Direct accompaniment for people navigating grief, serious illness, caregiving, end-of-life concerns, spiritual questions, and life's major transitions.
This work takes place primarily through Aurelia Grove, a spiritual care practice offering one-on-one support, ceremonies, memorials, and compassionate accompaniment through life's most challenging seasons.
Support • Spiritual Care • Grief • Serious Illness • End of Life • Ceremony
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Teach
Education, mentorship, speaking, and professional formation for chaplains, healthcare workers, clergy, helping professionals, and communities.
This work includes chaplaincy education, workshops, leadership development, public speaking, and cultivating the skills needed to accompany others with greater wisdom, resilience, and compassion.
Teaching • Training • Mentorship • Leadership • Professional Formation
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Explore
Research, writing, pilgrimage, ritual, spirituality, non ordinary states studies, and Threshold Work.
This stream asks larger questions about meaning, transformation, community, healing, mortality, and what it means to live a fully human life.
Through writing, research, and public inquiry, I explore the experiences that shape us and the practices that help us navigate them.
Writing • Research • Pilgrimage • Ritual • Non Ordinary States • Threshold Work
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Begin the Conversation
Whether you are seeking support, looking for a speaker or educator, interested in collaboration, exploring research, seeking a mentor or simply curious about the work, I would be glad to hear from you.
