Spiritual Counsel with Maren Aspaas, MA, MDiv.
Private one-on-one guidance, mentorship, and direction
Welcome! I am glad you have come across my work. My name is Maren Aspaas, and I offer spiritual counsel in private one-on-one sessions. In these sessions, we listen and share regarding experience, meaning, and life direction. Our time together offers a place to pause, reflect, and practice. This isn't therapy or life coaching--it's a space to look with compassion at your life as you understand and experience it.
Begin with a free 20-minute conversation. I will personally respond to your email inquiry. I look forward to hearing from you.
If your life is full, yet something essential is missing.
If you do not need escape, but long to inhabit your life with intent, wisdom, and compassion.
If you are not lost, yet search for a more satisfying map— This is for you.
Many of you arrive here just “fine.” Your lives function. You feel capable, thoughtful, and enjoy outward successes. Your life is full of relationships, responsibilities, histories, and future commitments. You live in the world. You basically have few specific problems, and no pathology. There really is nothing wrong. But maybe some things could feel more right.
And having lived this life, you may still be searching for more. More resilience, more meaning, a deeper understanding of who you are, as well as peace and contentment amid the temperamental waves of the ocean. These longings have brought you here.
What this work is
You are whole. This is a fundamental principle of mine-- that all of us are whole and not separate or broken from our true nature, which is physical + nonphysical, or in other words: Love. On this ground, we begin our work together.
We will explore your sense of self and orientation to life. We will explore how meaning emerges and meets your life.
We will explore how inner and outer life might stop feeling separate.
Spirituality is not an ascent, but an intimacy.
Spiritual practice and a spiritual life that is well attended to is not an act of escape, but an unfolding of presence.
We do not fix what is already whole.
We move toward recognition, allowing, and clarity.
We are not becoming someone else.
We are realizing who we already are.
What this work is not
This is not dogma. I will not tell you what to believe.
This is not about bypassing your humanity. It is about entering it more fully.
This is not exclusively energy work or intuitive inquiry. These tools may be present, but they are not the whole of the work.
This is not mental health treatment. It does not diagnose, treat, or replace clinical care.
Orientation
My work sits at the intersection of:
• Spirituality
• Philosophy
• Embodiment
• Psychology
I ground my work in a non-dual orientation that comes from the knowledge that all things come from a common source, which is Love. As embodied humans, we are Love, and an intimate part of life on Earth.
How it works
Sessions are conversational, contemplative, and practical.
I love humor, deeply appreciate intellect, and adore story.
In sessions, we will attend to the moment and to the sensations that arise so that the practice of presence is nurtured.
I am interested and committed to attending to your history, context, and experience, as these things have formed you.
Mostly, we will attend to what is appearing. Some traditions point to this as the 'display,' or ever-changing landscape that we are aware of and within. And learning how to allow and love the experience of life--deeply present in it, yet not captured by it.
