about self & soul
Self and Soul is a unique spiritual care initiative of Elbow Tree Christian Counseling, LLC in Saint Augustine, Florida.
Self & Soul exists to help Christian leaders cultivate a rich inner life, to care well for self and soul.
Most often this looks like meeting with individuals one on one for spiritual direction or soul care intensives. Sometimes it looks like facilitating an intimate soul care retreat through themes relating to self care and sabbath rest. Occasionally we share and create written resources inviting both the self and soul to flourish.
Self & Soul exists to help Christian leaders cultivate a rich inner life, to care well for self and soul.
Most often this looks like meeting with individuals one on one for spiritual direction or soul care intensives. Sometimes it looks like facilitating an intimate soul care retreat through themes relating to self care and sabbath rest. Occasionally we share and create written resources inviting both the self and soul to flourish.
We are not our problems. We are not our wounds. We are not our sins. We are persons of radical worth and unrevealed beauty. If we face ourselves fully, we will be broken by what we see, by the selfishness and fear and rage and lust that cover our spiritual beauty like tarnish on silver. But the silver is there. Something brilliant and intact gleams through the stain of our brokenness.
—Larry Crabb |
“The “with God” life is not a life of more religious activities or devotions or trying to be good. It is a life of inner peace and contentment for your soul with the maker and manager of the universe. The “without God” life is the opposite. It is death. It will kill your soul.”
― John Ortberg, Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You |