Kind Words
Let’s sit together under the Loving Gaze and lean into God’s intentions for you.
“As a client of Carey Cruz’s and her self-compassion coaching, I would like to highly recommend her helpful coaching services to others!
Carey provides trustworthy, loyal and confidential listening and coaching. She provides practical and helpful guidance that resonates, as well as prayerful wisdom! She meets you where you are at but also helps you set and reach your spiritual and personal goals by providing insightful and inspiring perspectives wherever you are on your spiritual journey. She comes from a true and sincere place of wanting to help. I truly value Carey’s honesty, clarity, wisdom and counseling. I highly recommend her services.”
Lori, CA
“I have truly enjoyed my sessions with my Spiritual Director, Carey Cruz. She has given me several suggestions to help enhance my prayer life which has helped me develop a closer relationship with Jesus. I appreciate how she curtails our sessions to my individual needs. She always prays with me and gives me scripture verses that pertain to our discussions.
I would highly recommend her services to anyone wanting to improve their devotional time and relationship with God.”
Nancy, CA
“I have been meeting with Carey on a monthly basis for the past two years, and it has been an absolute gift from God. I admit that I was initially apprehensive about seeking direction, but she immediately put me at ease and now meeting with her is an integral part of my rule of life. Carey is naturally warm, empathetic, and wise. But even more significantly, she is attuned with the Spirit. On many occasions, she has spoken truth, love, and wisdom to me in my specific life circumstances that I believe must have been from the Holy Spirit."
Briana, CO
“Self-compassion has helped me accept the care and tenderness that I need to give myself and become more aware of God’s care and concern for me. What a beautiful thing it has been to truly understand God’s intimate love for me! Group spiritual direction with Carey has allowed me to be open about myself while trusting that each group member will prayerfully listen and have discernment from the Holy Spirit on my behalf. I have enjoyed this group because each of us intentionally listen to the Holy Spirit’s leading and not our own recommendations.”
Becca, CA
“Working with Carey has been a healing experience. I am grateful for her attentiveness and grace as things in my life unfold. She takes time to listen to Holy Spirit as she listens to me. This has been helpful in building perspective and growing self-compassion. Time with Carey has felt like “clearing out the weeds” to see what has truly been planted by the Lord.”
Yesenia, CA
Ways I Would Be Honored to Support You
Spiritual Direction
“I am out with lanterns looking for myself.”
~ Emily Dickinson
A spiritual director accompanies an explorer, holding the lantern through narrow caves of the Dark Night; offering cups of water in the dry desert of Disorientation and Doubt; and providing compass and map in the wilderness of Discernment and Decision.
The path through each of these terrains on the spiritual journey takes you ever deeper into intimacy with Jesus. All the while, your soul is widening to receive the Generous Love that is already coming for you.
Sometimes it takes a compassionate co-traveler to help us recognize signposts along the way and remind us to pause and notice Beauty in ourselves that we had not seen. I would love 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
