Deeply Rooted
Spiritual Direction & Soul Care
Sink the roots of your life deep into the soil of God’s love.
What Is Spiritual Direction?
Seeing God in Your Life
The pace, complexity, and challenges of modern life are no joke. They can be overwhelming. The desire for intimacy with God and with others may be getting crowded out by responsibilities, pressures, disappointments, major decisions…, and life. We all face seasons that make knowing the presence and activity of God in our lives challenging.
That’s when it can be so valuable to have a spiritual director with you. Someone who will listen deeply to as much as you need or want to say about whatever is going on in your life. This is not a place you need to edit yourself. As a spiritual director, I am trained to listen and notice God’s presence and activity in your life, to ask open-ended questions that help you think about what is percolating deep in your soul, and to help you see God in your life. This is a sacred space to explore your faith, reflect on experiences, and discover God’s presence and activity in your life.
In spiritual direction we:
Explore Your Sacred Story: This is a confidential place to share your story, the experiences and present moments where you want to better see and understand with a lens to God’s presence. The real director in the room is the Holy Spirit and together we will always be paying attention to what the Spirit is revealing to you.
Develop Spiritual Practices: In direction we often explore new ways to connect with the presence of God. Using tools like the Enneagram, Sacred Pathways assessment, or simply the clues in your story, spiritual direction can provide practical help in spiritual formation and deepening your relationship with God.
Navigate Life’s Challenges: We are always making decisions. This requires discernment and learning a process for discernment that can serve you well through the big and small decisions. Spiritual direction companions you through that discernment process.
Spiritual direction provides space for you to listen to your life. It is not bossy or prescriptive, but a gentle and welcoming place to listen to your life and listen to and for how God is with you. It is a place to know his love so that you can thrive and grow. There are several ways to engage with me in spiritual direction.
Spiritual Direction Services
Individual Direction
Group Direction
Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
Spiritual Retreats
Enneagram Formation
Get to Know Laura Taylor
I companion those seeking to know God better, to hear and experience his presence, and to grow in faith.
Spiritual direction offers space for spiritual formation and soul care whether you are wrestling with a decision, seeking clarity in your faith, going deeper into your relationship with God, or navigating the normal challenges inherent in the journey of life and faith.
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Every person I meet with has a unique story, unique life experiences, hope, dreams and struggles. So, the practices employed in spiritual direction can also be unique to each person. However, it always includes prayerful attention to God and evocative contemplative listening and gentle open-ended questions to help you look below the surface of things to know yourself and God better.
Other practices include:
• Ignatian spiritual practices including imaginative prayer, examen
• Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, the 19th Annotation
• Enneagram and The Sacred Pathway tools
• Prayer practices including centering prayer, breath prayer, Immanuel prayer journaling, Anglican prayer beads
• Lectio and Visio Divina
• Spiritual autobiography and journaling
• Rhythm or rule of life
• Contemplative retreats
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I was trained at Canada-based Emmaus Formation Centre and completed its three-year Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Direction program. In addition, I have done coursework at Denver Seminary in Christian Spiritual Formation, Friend’s University’s Apprentice Experience Spiritual Formation program, and completed training in Enneagram for Spiritual Directors through PAX Center with Doug and Adele Calhoun.
I am committed to growing as a director. Currently, I am midway through a three-year post-spiritual director’s certificate three-year training cohort with the Spiritual Direction Learning Community for evocative contemplative spiritual direction practices. I am also a member of three professional organizations for spiritual directors: ESDA and Spiritual Directors International and Emmaus Society of Spiritual Directors and conform to their codes of ethics.
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Every spiritual director brings their unique personality and experiences to this ministry. I am no different. While I don’t need to have walked in your shoes specifically, I do think it can be helpful to know some of your director’s life experiences. Prior to becoming a spiritual director, I had a 40-year corporate communications career.
During that time, I was also a pastor’s wife. I have compassion and understanding for those in church ministry as well as those in demanding work environments. I am also a mother of a young adult and for a season was a military mom.
I love hiking in the mountains, going to art museums, reading as many books as I can fit in, dabbling in creative projects, and traveling.
It would be my joy to journey with you in your unique circumstances and faith experience.
Spiritual Direction Stories
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Deepened My Connection With God
“Laura is compassionate and insightful, creating a safe, non-judgmental space for reflection and growth. Through deep listening and thought-provoking questions, she has helped guide me to uncover spiritual patterns and deepen my connection with God."
- KM
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Offers Empathy and Questions
“For the past 10 months, Laura has shepherded me to the loving embrace of the Trinity in the midst of deep grief and questions in my life. Whether in-person or virtual, it's clear she has prayed for me and over each meeting that we have. At the start of our time, she selects a song, scripture, or other written reflection, specifically for me, that slows me down to be with God. She offers empathy and questions that turn me to God for answers, again and again. No matter what I share, I have never felt judged for my frailty but rather truly accepted and loved for who I am, a Beloved daughter of Christ.”
- RD
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She Helped Me Embrace My Emotional Depth
“Laura Taylor’s Enneagram training felt like having my soul understood. As an Enneagram 4, I’ve wrestled with shame and longing, but Laura’s insights helped me embrace my emotional depth and find strength in it. Her advice, like making my bed to ground myself, was simple yet transformative. She also helped my husband and me improve our communication, creating deeper connection. If you’re in Colorado and seeking clarity, I can’t recommend Laura’s compassionate guidance enough."
- SJ
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There Is One Constant When Working With Laura - That the Holy Trinity Is at the Center Each Time
“Laura has been an immense part of my faith journey for the last 18 months! Her personalized, flexible approach to each session has met me exactly where I was each day. Some days we made big strides along the journey that pushed me to think and explore my faith in different ways - other times were spent in much silent reflection. There is one constant when working with Laura - that the Holy Trinity is at the center each time, leading us along the journey, whatever that may look like.”
- JM
Let’s Meet Where It’s Comfortable for You
At the heart of spiritual direction is hospitality. You are welcome to come as you are in a way that feels most comfortable to you. If you are new to spiritual direction, sessions last between 60-90 minutes as often as you need them. Typically, we meet once a month, but I also have directees who want to meet every other week. Frequency and location are up to you. I offer a variety of ways to meet.
Zoom: Spiritual direction sessions are available via Zoom technology. This provides an ease of connecting from anywhere: at work, at home during your baby’s nap, while traveling, or simply from another state or country. As with all spiritual direction sessions, Zoom sessions are always conducted with privacy as a priority.
In-Person: Sessions are also available in person in the Denver metro area. Meeting face-to-face in a comfortable, private setting can provide a welcome atmosphere for reflection. I’ll light a candle, a reminder of God’s presence, and open the door to whatever you are carrying that day.
Hybrid: And, of course, there is the option to meet partially online and in-person, providing flexibility for those with changing schedules or who may prefer a combination of both.
Come as you are and receive grace and my undivided attention, and the undivided attention of God who is always with you. Let’s start by meeting on Zoom for an initial complimentary “get to know you” session and an opportunity for me to answer any of your questions about spiritual direction.