From Burned Out to Beloved: Soul Care for Wounded Healers by Bethany Dearborn Hiser
The Soul of the Helper by Holly Oxhandler
Boundaries for your Soul by Dr. Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller
Invitation to Retreat by Ruth Haley Barton
Lost in Wonder: Rediscovering the Spiritual Art of Attentiveness by Esther De Waal
Invitation to Solitude and Silence by Ruth Haley Barton
Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self by Chuck DeGroat
Sabbath by Wayne Muller
Beauty: The Invisible Embrace by John O’Donohue
Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly: what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
First We Were Loved: A Year of Ignatian Prayer
(Order from Dove House Ministries)
Inner Compass by Margaret Silf
Why Do You Trouble this Woman? Women and the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola by Anne Arabome, SSS
Helping Families Recover from Addiction: Coping, Growing, and Healing through 12-Step Practices and Ignatian Spirituality by Jean Heaton
Small Simple Ways: An Ignatian Daybook for Healthy Spiritual Living by Vinita Hampton Wright
The Examen Book: Exploring Everyday with God by Paul Mitchell and Katie Broussard (an excellent children’s book that we often recommend to adults)
All the Things: A 30 Day Guide to Experiencing God’s Presence in the Prayer of the Examen by Katie Haseltine
Reimagining the Ignatian Examen by Mark Thibodeaux, SJ
The Spiritual Work of Racial Justice: A Month of Meditations with Ignatius of Loyola by Patrick Saint-Jean, SJ
Seeking God: Finding Another Kind of Life with St. Ignatius and Dallas Willard by Trevor Hudson
Inviting the Mystic Supporting the Prophet by Katherine Marie Dyckman, SNJM and L. Patrick Carroll, S.J.
Holy Listening by Margaret Guenther
Soul Care in African-American Practice by Barbara L. Peacock
Spiritual Direction by Henri Nouwen
Podcast episode: The Next Right Thing, episode 167 – Spiritual Direction for Beginners
Anchored by Deb Dana
The Wisdom of your Body by Dr. Hillary McBride
Embracing the Body: Finding God in our Flesh and Bone by Tara Owens
Creative God: Awaken your God-Given Imagination by Anna Bonnema
Try Softer by Aundi Kolber
Holy Listening with Breath, Body and the Spirit by Whitney R. Simpson
An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor
The Artist’s Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom by Christine Valtners Paintner
Anatomy of the Soul by Curt Thompson M.D.
Art + Faith: A Theology of Making by Makoto Fujimura
Podcast episode: The Place We Find Ourselves with Adam Young episode 152 – Learning to Live Inside Your Body with Dr. Hillary McBride
Simple Faith: Growing Beyond Religion as You Know it to Grow in your Relationship with God by Margaret Silf
Open the Door: A Journey to the True Self by Joyce Rupp, OSM
A Tree Full of Angels: Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary by Macrina Wiederkehr, OSB
Set the World on Fire: A Four-Week Personal Retreat with the Female Doctors of the Church by Vinita Hampton Wright
The Desert Mothers: Spiritual Practices from the Women of the Wilderness by Mary C. Earle
Domestic Monastery: Creating a Spiritual Life at Home by Ronald Rolheiser
Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World by Henri J. Nouwen
The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom by Henri J. Nouwen
The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery by David Benner
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr
The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller
Podcast episode: The Bible for Normal People – Episode 37 with Sarah Bessey – It’s Okay to Deconstruct
Seven Sacred Pauses by Macrina Wiederkehr, OSB
Mindful Silence: The Heart of Christian Contemplation by Phileena Heuertz
Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons by Jan Richardson
Praying Our Goodbyes by Joyce Rupp
Incandescence: 365 Readings on the Women Mystics by Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Prayer in the Night by Tish Harrison Warren
Devotions by Mary Oliver
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donohue
Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation by Martin Laird
The Wood Between the Worlds by Brian Zahnd
Visual Commentary on Scripture: Encounter the Bible through Art
RESOURCES
It takes a lifetime to really understand that God is in what is standing in front of me. Most of life is spent looking, straining to see the God in the mist, behind the cloud, beyond the dark. It is when we face God in one another, in creation, in the moment, that the real spiritual journey begins.
—Joan Chittister, Illuminated Life: Monastic Wisdom for Seekers of Light