Rev Amy Beltaine
@abeltaine.bsky.social
She/her, Queer, Green-Witch, UU minister
Torchbearer. Tending spirit. You are whole, holy, worthy, & beloved. Find your spiritual direction
Lives in Portugal.
Tithe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AmyBeltaine
Web: https://AmyBeltaine.info
Torchbearer. Tending spirit. You are whole, holy, worthy, & beloved. Find your spiritual direction
Lives in Portugal.
Tithe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AmyBeltaine
Web: https://AmyBeltaine.info
Deep Listening: While You WAIT
Words shape the sacred space of spiritual direction. so does silence. In W.A.I.T.: Why Am I Talking, I explored how intentional restraint helps companions create spaciousness for Spirit. This post is the other side of that practice: what happens while you wait.
Words shape the sacred space of spiritual direction. so does silence. In W.A.I.T.: Why Am I Talking, I explored how intentional restraint helps companions create spaciousness for Spirit. This post is the other side of that practice: what happens while you wait.
Deep Listening: While You WAIT
Explores deep listening as contemplative practice in spiritual direction-attending to explorer, self, and Spirit through embodied presence and silence
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November 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Deep Listening: While You WAIT
Words shape the sacred space of spiritual direction. so does silence. In W.A.I.T.: Why Am I Talking, I explored how intentional restraint helps companions create spaciousness for Spirit. This post is the other side of that practice: what happens while you wait.
Words shape the sacred space of spiritual direction. so does silence. In W.A.I.T.: Why Am I Talking, I explored how intentional restraint helps companions create spaciousness for Spirit. This post is the other side of that practice: what happens while you wait.
Explore consent-based ethics in spiritual direction: trust, accountability, and power named as sacred practices of care and integrity. medium.com/@abeltaine/e...
Ethical Foundations in Spirit Tending
Spiritual direction rests on sacred trust. A seeker invites us into the tender landscape of their spirit, and our response must be both…
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November 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Explore consent-based ethics in spiritual direction: trust, accountability, and power named as sacred practices of care and integrity. medium.com/@abeltaine/e...
Reposted by Rev Amy Beltaine
Every year for the past decade or so, I’ve posted a prayer of grief for
Trans Day of Remembrance.
This year? I just feel sad, tired, and angry. I want the scapegoating, hatred, and violence to stop….
#TDOR
Trans Day of Remembrance.
This year? I just feel sad, tired, and angry. I want the scapegoating, hatred, and violence to stop….
#TDOR
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Every year for the past decade or so, I’ve posted a prayer of grief for
Trans Day of Remembrance.
This year? I just feel sad, tired, and angry. I want the scapegoating, hatred, and violence to stop….
#TDOR
Trans Day of Remembrance.
This year? I just feel sad, tired, and angry. I want the scapegoating, hatred, and violence to stop….
#TDOR
I'm excited (and ridiculously proud): NOW accepting applications to the next cohort of the 2-year Spiritual Direction certification program through Cherry Hill Seminary.
Thought about becoming a spiritual companion? curious what that means for Pagan and earth-centered communities? Let’s talk.
Thought about becoming a spiritual companion? curious what that means for Pagan and earth-centered communities? Let’s talk.
Cherry Hill Spiritual Direction Certification Program
Do you wish to enhance your ability to help others on their spiritual journeys? Join this program to level up! Spiritual Direction Certification.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I'm excited (and ridiculously proud): NOW accepting applications to the next cohort of the 2-year Spiritual Direction certification program through Cherry Hill Seminary.
Thought about becoming a spiritual companion? curious what that means for Pagan and earth-centered communities? Let’s talk.
Thought about becoming a spiritual companion? curious what that means for Pagan and earth-centered communities? Let’s talk.
It's Samhain! This is an offering of a fantastic story by Stephen Posch: The story of the First Jack-o-Lantern. youtu.be/GndxOD6SvGo
The First Jack o Lantern, by Stephen Posch
YouTube video by Amy Beltaine
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October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It's Samhain! This is an offering of a fantastic story by Stephen Posch: The story of the First Jack-o-Lantern. youtu.be/GndxOD6SvGo
A guide for spiritual companions on attending to death, dying, and grief with compassion, ritual, and presence.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:09 AM
A guide for spiritual companions on attending to death, dying, and grief with compassion, ritual, and presence.
medium.com/@abeltaine/a...
medium.com/@abeltaine/a...
A guided meditation inviting you to rest in the lineage of care—connecting through breath, body, and ancestral love flowing down to you.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A guided meditation inviting you to rest in the lineage of care—connecting through breath, body, and ancestral love flowing down to you.
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medium.com/@abeltaine/g...
How engineered fear fuels authoritarianism and why spiritual direction as liberation work, not just comfort, builds the resilience needed to resist.
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Authoritarianism Thrives on Brittle Spirits: the Profitable Manufacture of Fear
The Profitable Manufacture of Fear — And the Critical Work of Spirit Tending
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October 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
How engineered fear fuels authoritarianism and why spiritual direction as liberation work, not just comfort, builds the resilience needed to resist.
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medium.com/@abeltaine/a...
New York just showed us what we can do. (Watch for inspiration, context, and guidelines on how do do this in your city.)
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WATCH: New Yorkers Just CHASED Trump's ICE Out Of MANHATTAN🚨
YouTube video by Occupy Democrats
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October 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
New York just showed us what we can do. (Watch for inspiration, context, and guidelines on how do do this in your city.)
youtu.be/u5TNLCpx-t8?...
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A guided meditation on fierce love and inner strength. Connect with your protective wisdom and connect to an animal presence that supports your journey.
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guided meditation, fierce love, inner strength, grounding, self-compassion, protective wisdom, mindfulness, bear wisdom
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guided meditation, fierce love, inner strength, grounding, self-compassion, protective wisdom, mindfulness, bear wisdom
A Meditation on Fierce Love and Inner Strength
For the reader: Speak slowly, with warmth and quiet strength. Pause between paragraphs. Let your voice feel like a safe, protective…
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October 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A guided meditation on fierce love and inner strength. Connect with your protective wisdom and connect to an animal presence that supports your journey.
medium.com/@abeltaine/a...
guided meditation, fierce love, inner strength, grounding, self-compassion, protective wisdom, mindfulness, bear wisdom
medium.com/@abeltaine/a...
guided meditation, fierce love, inner strength, grounding, self-compassion, protective wisdom, mindfulness, bear wisdom
This work to protect the vote is so important! Regaining control of our country is necessary, but retaining control equally necessary.
🚨BREAKING: New York Court of Appeals UNANIMOUSLY UPHOLDS state law moving most county and town elections to even-numbered years. By aligning them with state and federal elections, it will boost voter turnout.
Another victory for voters and defeat for the GOP! www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...
Another victory for voters and defeat for the GOP! www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...
🚨 Onondaga County v. New York
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This work to protect the vote is so important! Regaining control of our country is necessary, but retaining control equally necessary.
On bear goddesses, manufactured fear, and why spiritual practice is revolutionary resistance. A homily offering fierce love as a third way.
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Fierce Love in Fragmented Times: A Homily for the Bear Goddess Within
Reclaiming spiritual practice as revolutionary resistance
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October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
On bear goddesses, manufactured fear, and why spiritual practice is revolutionary resistance. A homily offering fierce love as a third way.
medium.com/@abeltaine/f...
medium.com/@abeltaine/f...
Experience a guided Nautilus Labyrinth meditation—spiraling inward and outward through breath, presence, and spiritual reflection.
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Nautilus Labyrinth Meditation
Let’s start by coming here to this moment… to this heartbeat… to this breath.
And the next breath.
And the next breath.
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October 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Experience a guided Nautilus Labyrinth meditation—spiraling inward and outward through breath, presence, and spiritual reflection.
medium.com/@abeltaine/n...
medium.com/@abeltaine/n...
You're Not Alone: Some of Us Never Joined the Cult
I see the heartbreak. The devastation of watching family swept into MAGA hate. We're still here.
I see the heartbreak. The devastation of watching family swept into MAGA hate. We're still here.
You’re Not Alone — Some of Us Never Joined the Cult
I see the heartbreak. The devastation of watching parents, elders, mentors swept into the hateful MAGA cult — abandoning compassion, truth…
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October 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
You're Not Alone: Some of Us Never Joined the Cult
I see the heartbreak. The devastation of watching family swept into MAGA hate. We're still here.
I see the heartbreak. The devastation of watching family swept into MAGA hate. We're still here.
Tired of hype & hustle? Here's a list of heart-centered, anti-capitalist biz coaches for healers & helpers 💗 Rooted in justice, consent, & care.
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Heart-Centered, Anti-Capitalist (or Post-Capitalist), Consent-Based Business Coaches
Especially for Healers, Therapists, Spiritual Companions, and One-on-One Helpers
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September 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Tired of hype & hustle? Here's a list of heart-centered, anti-capitalist biz coaches for healers & helpers 💗 Rooted in justice, consent, & care.
medium.com/@abeltaine/h...
medium.com/@abeltaine/h...
Fall Equinox: Abundance, Gratitude, and Giving in Times of Trouble, the Earth pauses. This turning point in the year invites us to do the same: to pause, reflect, and ask ourselves what we've gathered and what we're ready to give.
With guided meditation.
With guided meditation.
Fall Equinox: Abundance, Gratitude, and Giving in Times of Trouble
spiritual practice, deep listening & the sacred journey. Explore wisdom from diverse traditions, and spiritual directon. You are whole, holy & worthy.
abeltaine.blogspot.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Fall Equinox: Abundance, Gratitude, and Giving in Times of Trouble, the Earth pauses. This turning point in the year invites us to do the same: to pause, reflect, and ask ourselves what we've gathered and what we're ready to give.
With guided meditation.
With guided meditation.
on point. and filled with relentless optimism based on real info.
She follows indivisible’s briefings, and is in Portland Oregon.
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She follows indivisible’s briefings, and is in Portland Oregon.
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Disney is freaking out as Kimmel Cancel creates HUGE Backlash
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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September 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
on point. and filled with relentless optimism based on real info.
She follows indivisible’s briefings, and is in Portland Oregon.
m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
She follows indivisible’s briefings, and is in Portland Oregon.
m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
Started writing about all the terrifying news, then stopped. We've recited that list 1000x already. For my fellow healers/caregivers feeling dysregulated: stop perseverating. Turn toward what sustains you. Ask for help when you need it. The world needs you whole, not empty. 💙
Healers, Heal Thyselves: Finding Ground in Groundless Times
I started writing this blog post with a litany of all the things happening in the world that scare me and break my heart. Then I stopped…
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September 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Started writing about all the terrifying news, then stopped. We've recited that list 1000x already. For my fellow healers/caregivers feeling dysregulated: stop perseverating. Turn toward what sustains you. Ask for help when you need it. The world needs you whole, not empty. 💙
Gen. John F. Kelly (retired Marine four-star general, former White House Chief of Staff under Trump)
In interviews with The New York Times, Kelly said Trump “meets the definition of a fascist” and “prefers the dictator approach to government.”
In interviews with The New York Times, Kelly said Trump “meets the definition of a fascist” and “prefers the dictator approach to government.”
September 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Gen. John F. Kelly (retired Marine four-star general, former White House Chief of Staff under Trump)
In interviews with The New York Times, Kelly said Trump “meets the definition of a fascist” and “prefers the dictator approach to government.”
In interviews with The New York Times, Kelly said Trump “meets the definition of a fascist” and “prefers the dictator approach to government.”
Gen. Mark Milley (retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
In Bob Woodward’s book War, Milley is quoted saying that Donald Trump is “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person to this country.”
In Bob Woodward’s book War, Milley is quoted saying that Donald Trump is “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person to this country.”
September 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Gen. Mark Milley (retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
In Bob Woodward’s book War, Milley is quoted saying that Donald Trump is “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person to this country.”
In Bob Woodward’s book War, Milley is quoted saying that Donald Trump is “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person to this country.”
A private message from 2016 attributed to JD Vance said: “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler.
That quote was leaked later (in 2022) by a former Yale roommate(s).
That quote was leaked later (in 2022) by a former Yale roommate(s).
September 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A private message from 2016 attributed to JD Vance said: “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler.
That quote was leaked later (in 2022) by a former Yale roommate(s).
That quote was leaked later (in 2022) by a former Yale roommate(s).
Boycott ABC/Disney+ & subsidiaries until they stop silencing dissent. Defend the Constitution, protect free speech, and resist censorship! Hate speech prosecution belongs in the courts, free expression isn’t up for debate in the USA! #FreeSpeech #NoCensorship #BoycottDisneyABC
September 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Boycott ABC/Disney+ & subsidiaries until they stop silencing dissent. Defend the Constitution, protect free speech, and resist censorship! Hate speech prosecution belongs in the courts, free expression isn’t up for debate in the USA! #FreeSpeech #NoCensorship #BoycottDisneyABC
Boycotts work
ABC, which has aired Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show since 2003, moved swiftly after Nexstar Communications Group said it would pull the show starting Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3IeskOp
ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely over his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death
Kimmel's comments about Kirk's death “are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse,” said Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar's broadcasting division. Nexstar o...
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September 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Boycotts work
You GO League of Women Voters!
BREAKING: In a big victory for Utah voters’ right to fair voting maps and our clients LWV of Utah and the Mormon Women for Ethical Government, Utah's congressional map has been struck down following our lawsuit alleging the districts are illegal partisan gerrymanders.
September 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
You GO League of Women Voters!
Quick question: where do you go when your SOUL needs guidance?
We have therapists for minds, advisors for money — but when justice work burns you out and the calling remains, where do you turn?
Sacred questions need sacred space.
abeltaine.blogspot.com/2025/09/wher...
We have therapists for minds, advisors for money — but when justice work burns you out and the calling remains, where do you turn?
Sacred questions need sacred space.
abeltaine.blogspot.com/2025/09/wher...
abeltaine.blogspot.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Quick question: where do you go when your SOUL needs guidance?
We have therapists for minds, advisors for money — but when justice work burns you out and the calling remains, where do you turn?
Sacred questions need sacred space.
abeltaine.blogspot.com/2025/09/wher...
We have therapists for minds, advisors for money — but when justice work burns you out and the calling remains, where do you turn?
Sacred questions need sacred space.
abeltaine.blogspot.com/2025/09/wher...