Heather McKay Maddox
Spiritual Direction | Narrative Healing | Re-Storying Guide
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A Place for Story, Healing, and Contemplative Presence
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Welcome. I’m so glad you’re here.
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This space was created as a soft landing place ... a quiet corner where you can pause, breathe, and reconnect with the deeper movements of your life. Here, your story is honored. Your voice matters. And your inner world is met with curiosity, compassion, and care.
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My work weaves together:
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Re-storying - helping you make meaning of your experiences and reclaim the narrative that leads toward healing
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Spiritual Direction - attentive, contemplative listening as you explore your relational with God within and around you
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Trauma-Informed Soul Care - grounding the body, tending to the nervous system, and nurturing safety and wholeness
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Psychological Insight - integrating a clinical lens shaped by interpersonal neurobiology and mental health understanding
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Creative Reflection - the use of prayer, poetry, writing, and contemplative practices to awaken the inner life
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Whether you are navigating transition, loss, spiritual longing, emotional pain, or the desire for deeper alignment with who you are becoming, this is a place to be held, seen, and supported.
Here, we slow down enough to listen.
We listen to your story.
We listen to the body.
We listen to the whispers of the Holy Spirit.
We listen for what is emerging, healing, and wanting to be restored.
You are welcome exactly as you are ... no striving, no pretending, no rushing.
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Come as a seeker.
Come as a question-holder.
Come as a soul longing for spaciousness and renewal.
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This is your landing place.
A sanctuary for the inner life.
A beginning point for whatever comes next.
In Honour of Austin's legacy
March 22, 1997 - July 15, 2016
Beloved Youth of Today.
I am especially mindful of the unique, tender stepping-stone season that young adults face as they transition from high school into the wide-open world of “adulting.” It is a time filled with questions, searching, identity-shaping choices, and often deep struggle or angst.
Beloved Austin left this earth during that vulnerable transition ... his first year of university, trying to find his footing in a new adult world.
Austin was like a brother to our son, and like a son to my husband and me. At his funeral, our son shared that he always imagined giving Austin’s best-man speech one day - not standing there offering a eulogy.
Today, I celebrate Austin’s life. And I also reflect on how those of us further down the road can better support young adults so they feel soothed, safe, and secure as they navigate this formative season.
Austin’s legacy is woven into the ministry and teaching I carry. He is one of the reasons I invest so deeply in the next generation - their wellbeing, their future, and their flourishing.
My ministry of spiritual direction is, in many ways, an offering in his honour. His life profoundly shaped mine, and continues to inspire the work I do.