Compassion Care
A quiet place to slow down, notice, and be gently transformed by the compassion of God.
Through Spiritual Direction, Self-Compassion Coaching, and the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, you are invited to encounter God's gentle presence, receive yourself with compassion, and grow into secure belonging with the God who delights in you.
Three pathways. One purpose: growing into secure belonging with the God who delights in you.
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I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE HERE.
Welcome to this space …
… a space for your soul to exhale as every part of you is met with kindness, curiosity, and grace—making room for deeper rest, healing, and connection.
The soul awakens through noticing —
noticing beauty where we had only seen brokenness,
noticing wonder in the ordinary moments of life,
noticing the quiet movements of God’s Spirit, always drawing us toward Love.
Each Compassion Care offering creates space to notice.
As you receive yourself with greater compassion, you will notice a growing receptivity to God’s comforting voice, courageous strength, and transforming love.
You don’t have to walk alone. Let’s journey together!
Pick your path. Three unique offerings to meet you where you are.
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Spiritual Direction
“I am out with lanterns looking for myself.”
~ Emily Dickinson
Spiritual direction is a prayerful practice of listening for God's presence in your life with the companionship of a trusted guide.
A spiritual director walks alongside a fellow explorer—holding the lantern through the narrow caves of the Dark Night, offering cups of water in the dry desert of disorientation and doubt, and helping to discern the path forward in seasons of decision and change.
Each landscape of the spiritual journey invites you into deeper intimacy with Jesus. Along the way, your soul widens to receive the generous Love that is already coming for you.
Sometimes it takes a compassionate companion to help us recognize the signposts on the journey and notice the beauty within ourselves that we had not seen. I would be honored to travel with you.
“When we are not afraid to enter into our own center and to concentrate on the stirrings of our own soul, we come to know that being alive means being loved.”
~ Henri Nouwen
Mindfulness & Self-Compassion Coaching
“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
~ E.B. White
There are places within us that have wandered far from home—places shaped by fear, shame, striving, or the relentless voice of the inner critic. Mindfulness and self-compassion invite us to slow down long enough to notice these tender places, not with judgment or fixing, but with gentle attention, patient curiosity, and kindness.
Perhaps coming home to ourselves begins with wonder - in discovering that every part of us longs to be seen with compassion.
How we think about ourselves is often how we imagine God thinks about us. Yet God's gaze is infinitely more compassionate than our own. As we learn to meet ourselves with kindness, our hearts become more receptive to the Generous Love that has been calling us home all along.
Drawing on the wisdom of mindfulness, self-compassion, attachment theory, and Internal Family Systems, this work helps cultivate a steadier inner presence. As our own voice becomes more loving, we begin to recognize that Love has been speaking within us from the very beginning.
“We are made for relationship—not just with others, but with ourselves.”
~ Aundi Kolber
Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
“Until you know deep inside that Jesus thirsts for you, you can’t begin to know who he wants to be for you, or what he wants you to be for him.”
~ St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
The Spiritual Exercises are an invitation to make room for an encounter with Jesus.
Over nine months, through a rhythm of daily prayer and weekly spiritual direction, you prayerfully enter the Gospel stories, allowing your imagination to become a place of meeting. As you listen, notice, and respond, the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus gradually become more than stories to be understood—they become a relationship to be lived.
Inspired by the wisdom of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the Exercises gently form the eyes of the heart to recognize God's loving presence in all things. As your freedom deepens and your capacity for discernment grows, you begin to discover that Christ has been drawing near to you all along.
The Spiritual Exercises are not about mastering a method but about meeting a Person. Little by little, you come to know Jesus more intimately, love him more deeply, and follow him more freely. In the quiet unfolding of prayer, you discover that the One you have been seeking has always been seeking you.
“It is not knowing much, but realizing and relishing things interiorly that contents and satisfies the soul.”
~ St. Ignatius of Loyola.
Hi! I'm Carey.
I have spent my life learning to notice.
Growing up as a Third Culture Kid between two continents and cultures taught me that Home is not as much a physical space as an inner resting place of belonging.
It taught me to live with open-hearted curiosity and that some of life’s deepest questions are not problems to solve, but invitations with which to wonder, wait, and trust.
I have spent my life learning to notice – notice beauty, longing, God’s quiet whisper, and the movements of my own heart.
Today, as a Spiritual Director and Self-Compassion Coach, I love accompanying others as they discover that same way of seeing—turning toward themselves with kindness, noticing God's faithful presence, and recognizing the quiet invitations woven into everyday life.
If you'd like to know more about the journey that brought me here, I'd love to share my story.
MY FREE GIFT TO YOU
Prayer with a Poem – A Compassionate Exchange
Why wait to get started? An ocean of compassion is available to you. Come on and dip in! Please enjoy this poem and compassionate prayer experience created with you in mind.
It’s my gift to you and comes with a prayer that you would know Kindness today.