Welcome.

I’m Jacqueline, and I’m so glad you stopped by my website. I’m focused on helping others create meaning through spiritual practices that reflect and support their beliefs and strengths through my Spiritual Coaching practice.

I graduated from Duke Divinity School with my Masters of Divinity, and I’m ordained in the United Church of Christ. I was a longtime healthcare chaplain, serving in hospice, trauma, and pediatric settings. I’ve been to around 1000 deaths, which seems totally wild to write! These experiences changed me and opened me up to deeply embrace the mysterious, sticky, hard, and beautiful.

I’m a recovering “good girl.” I’m a lot less concerned with always doing the right thing now because I’ve relaxed into trusting myself and my innate goodness as the daughter of the Most High.

While I no longer consider myself a formal Christian, I still love and live by my brother Jesus’ teachings—especially about loving everybody, no exceptions. I’ve deepened my spirituality through studying meditation, Healing Touch, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Bahà’í, among others. I’m also a bit of an Enneagram nerd. I use Tarot and oracle cards to help me and my clients—as they feel comfortable, but I’m more of a newbie in my study of astrology and numerology. All of these are facets on the diamond of my own spirituality.

My professional areas of focus are: the intersection of meaning-making and trauma, feminine spirituality, the grief spiral, infertility and adoption, spiritual parenting, Queer theology and spirituality, and creating spiritual communities in unique ways. I’ve been a national speaker on meaning-making and resilience, and I did a video series on grief for the Bullitt County Public Library that you can see here.

Sending you the deepest prayers for love and joy on your journey!

JHD

If you want to learn more about my Spiritual Coaching practice click here.