Alumni Spotlight: Gabriela De Golia
Gabriela De Golia (she/they) is a spiritual care provider, writer, artist, and learning facilitator who graduated from Still Harbor’s Spiritual Direction Practicum in 2022. They combine spiritual direction, divination, dreamwork, and devotional rituals to further collective liberation and sacred flourishing. She lives in the woods of Middletown, CT with her beloved and their three black cats.
Choose three words to describe your spiritual journey in the last few years.
“Becoming more free.”
What rituals or self-care practices help ground your spiritual care work?
In my view, nothing falls outside the realm of divinity. That which distinguishes the “profane” from the “sacred,” “care” from “not care,” is the orientation with which it is approached. In other words, every action can become ritualized care if I welcome it as such. While I have specific, regular practices that support me (including disability-tending, dreaming, divination, and devotion, among others), what grounds and guides me most is an aspiration to touch divinity through any action, anywhere, at any moment.
You are the founder of The Betwixt & Between, which offers many services for spiritual care. How would you describe your work and what have you learned since creating your business?
My work and business (which include spiritual direction, tarot readings, dreamwork, devotional ritual, transition support, and more), is a reflection of what I have most needed to receive. It is thus an offering to the world as much as it is an offering to myself. I have learned that such personal rootedness can really help a business remain authentic and relational, rather than performative, prescriptive, or profit-driven.
What is one thing that is currently bringing you nourishment or joy?
The deep freedom that comes with forsaking conventional paths in pursuit of others that set my heart aflame. When seminary and an ordination process began draining me more than enlivening me, I took a leap of faith and dropped out of both. At the time, I only had a dim vision of what could come of that. Looking back on it now, I am grateful I trusted that holy flicker.
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