Lisa Wade Devine, MS, MDiv (she/her)

Offering:

  • Soulful whole-self support
  • Spiritual Care and Accompaniment 
  • Compassionate Bereavement Care 
  • Reflections on life’s most tender passageways

Through:

  • Individual & small group support spaces
  • Immersive workshop & retreat facilitation
  • Writing, speaking & consulting

Welcome! I am so glad we have found each other!

Professional biographical information is often steeped in language created by our achievement-oriented society. What I hope to describe here is a little about me and some of the personal life experience and training that helps me do the work that I do.In my studies, I first explored comparative literature and poetry, nurturing my love of soul-filled language, writing and storytelling as a way of illuminating the human experience. I then studied holistic nutrition and worked in natural health as a consultant and writer, excavating my reverence for the whole body and for using food and plants for nourishment and healing. More recently, I completed theological education as an adventure in learning more about what it is to be human and wrestle with our relationship to ourselves, to each other, to the earth and cosmos, and to the Sacred in its wild and sacred mystery. In my support offerings, I incorporate training & experience in the following areas:

I am a free-spirited, deep-thinking, tender-hearted and wild-growing soul.

However, no academic or professional training has been as meaningful or transformative as my personal life experience. I have been married since 2003 and have two incredible living children and one who lives on in our hearts and memories. Our oldest son died in a car accident in 2013, and just shy of two years before that, I lost my younger brother and only sibling to suicide.

Both my family of origin and the family I created have been shaken to the core, destroyed and dismantled, and because of it, everything I ever knew or believed in has changed in one way or another. In the ongoing journey of rebuilding our lives, these experiences of traumatic grief and catastrophic loss continue to shape me more than anything else. It has been both devastating and revealing to build and create life anew in the wake of these losses. I often refer to my heart as one that has been broken-wide-open and that new space has allowed me to see and feel, and thereby support others as well, in ways I could never have imagined.

I am a free-spirited, deep-thinking, tender-hearted and wild-growing soul. I am fascinated by the intersections of the creative and cerebral, the personal and collective, the agony and the ecstasy. I love listening, storytelling, engaging healing and building authentic, beloved community.

I am also deeply committed to anti-racist and anti-oppressive living, learning and practice, while actively supporting the dismantling of patriarchy and white supremacy systems and culture. As part of this lifelong journey, I am practicing the active decolonization of my mind, heart and body, intentionally supporting and living within movements of justice and liberation.

With love from my broken-open-heart to yours,

Living on unceded Chumash territory in Ventura County, CA