Meet Janie
The longest journey
In 2008 my husband Don and I planted a church. Some years later we walked away from it, and I found myself with a calling I could not name and no obvious place to put it.
So I went back to school. I earned a Master's in Pastoral Theology from Loyola Marymount, with a concentration in spiritual direction, at fifty-eight years old. I had spent decades in business before that — founding an inspirational gift company, consulting, raising two sons — and none of it was wasted. It just wasn't the whole thing.
For ten years I served as spiritual director to Ziglar Family International. I've written three books, and contributed to a fourth that became an Amazon best seller.
What emerged was poetry, and out of the poetry came the Seven Sacred Signposts — not something I set out to build, but something I kept noticing, in my own life and then in the lives of the women I sat with.
Today I serve as a spiritual director, teach, write, and co-lead Hidden Life Ministries with Don. And I founded the Women's Center for SoulCARE, which is where this work is practised in community rather than alone.
“A Poet of the Spiritual Life.”
Phyllis Tickle