Doorways Into Prayer: Healing From Spiritual Burnout

A gentle, self-paced online mini-retreat

“I miss the closeness I once had with God…”

“I should have better habits when it comes to my relationship with God, but I’m just so exhausted…”

“After this season of suffering and loss, I feel like things have shifted between me and God and I’m not sure how I actually feel towards Him or what to do about it…”

“I feel like the rug got pulled out from under my belief system and the old ways I used to connect with God feel triggering and aren’t working for me anymore…”

“I’ve just stepped out of a spiritually abusive community and I’m scared I’ve lost touch with who God really is and healthy ways to connect with Him…”

“I’ve been *doing, doing, doing* for God my entire life, making everything about Him, but I don’t even know who I really am today and I feel profoundly lonely and tired…”

These are statements I’ve heard (and even said myself) over the last 20+ years of walking with Jesus. Maybe you relate to one or two of these perspectives, or maybe you are in your own unique season of spiritual exhaustion. As a trauma-informed spiritual director and story-work coach, I often get to hold space for women confessing these realities for the first time and helping them navigate their journey back home – home to themselves and home to a God of welcome.

It’s a difficult journey to take alone. I designed this online retreat to help you gently explore a way forward.

Together we will learn to be with the shame or fear that might be attached to our spiritual exhaustion, we will explore our story and history with God, we will slow down and name what is really true, we will re-examine what we actually believe about God and ourselves, and we will discover ways to pray that feel gentle on our souls.

If you are looking for a safe place to process what surfaces during this retreat, I will be facilitating a unique online group (included in the retreat price) called the Soul Tending Circle where we can share our discoveries, ask our questions, and hold compassionate listening space for one another. This group will meet for four weeks in July on Tuesday evenings, starting July 9th-30th at 7:00pm EDT.

I hope you will join me as we discover spacious and nourishing ways to connect with God without the demand to give what you don’t have. I cannot wait to see how God will meet you during this retreat.

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Meet your guide

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KAYSIE STRICKLAND

Kaysie is a trauma-informed spiritual director, story-work coach, retreat leader, group facilitator, and artist.

Her life has taken her through many soul landscapes: spiritual wilderness, vocational burnout, creative rebirth, relational rupture & restoration, spacious Divine friendship, and a reclamation of her own voice and calling.

She runs the Listening House which offers online creative soul care experiences for women looking for safe + sensitive spaces to explore their friendship with God.

What you’ll learn

Compassionate Noticing

Compassionate Noticing

Healing Your Image of God

Healing Your Image of God

Accessible, gentle ways to be with God

Accessible, gentle ways to be with God

Course FAQ

  • You will have access to the retreat content and videos indefinitely so you can rewatch anytime you'd like.

  • Absolutely! The material works great within a group. The cost of the retreat is per person, so if please reach out to Kaysie (kaysie@listeninghouse.co) if you would like special group pricing.

  • The course flow is completely suggested, and you can spread it out over any amount of time that feels gentle to you. Or you can work through it quicker if that's more your style too. It's great for a personal retreat day or weekend.