What is Soul Care?
A. Soul Care is a form of spiritual companionship that values and reflects the inner experience of the soul to the one being companioned. Companioning is literally ‘breaking bread with,’ so a Spiritual Companion may be thought of as someone who shares the feast of life with you – both by helping you to articulate your spiritual hungers, and by guiding you towards those things that will feed your soul. The focus of this work is the soul’s journey – its deep desires and refreshments, its commitments and longings, its pleasures and pains. Through Soul Care we come to recognize the lineaments of soul in our life and thus honor the soul’s intentions in everyday affairs. Soul Care takes a stand for the health of the Soul distinct from traditional therapeutic or religious goals which may have the mental health, the social integration, or the religious salvation of the individual foremost in mind. In working with couples, for instance, the goal is not the “saving of the marriage” but rather th
