Contemplative artist & spiritual director in Nashville. I companion people through transitions, creativity, and the inner life. Hi! I'm Anna. I'm an artist and spiritual director — and most of my life has been spent discovering that those aren't three separate things. Seven years ago, the church my husband and I were part of fell apart. I felt unmoored in a way I never had before. My faith didn't go. The container did. Around that same time, I sat down for my first spiritual direction session, and it was life-changing. I had never had a place where no one tried to fix my problems, and instead, we just explored life together. Meanwhile, my job was burning me out — 6:00AM starts, thirty hours or more meetings per week — until chronic illness took away the option of powering through. I had to learn rest as a practice instead of a reward. And one question reorganized everything: Who am I becoming? Now I hold that room for other people. Driven, thoughtful, creative people who've found that success isn't the most important label anymore. Who are you becoming?