Pilgrimage

“Life is a long pilgrimage from fear to love.” ~ Paulo Coelho

On September 8, 2018, I took the first of many steps on the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage across Spain. In my walking, I quickly noticed that life as a pilgrim helped me to arrive home to myself in new, profound ways. With close to 15 years experience as a spiritual director, I began to wonder: What are the spiritual rhythms of pilgrimage and how do they translate into normal life? As I shared about my experiences, I found that people kept coming to me with questions about the Camino. Individual coaching turned to a group experience in August 2023, when I had the honor of guiding 8 pilgrims on the final 100 km of the Camino de Santiago. I returned knowing that I wanted to keep supporting pilgrims as they prepared to walk the Camino and other trails around the world.

The word “pilgrimage” evokes many vivid thoughts and images. But more than taking a long walk, it is an outward mirroring of the inward transformative movement with God, circling deeper and deeper to discover our truest self. Pilgrimage can take many shapes and forms in our life – through our circumstances, our joys, our deepest pain, and even through walking.

Whatever your pilgrimage looks like right now, allow me to accompany and guide you on this pathway. I offer a variety of forms of pilgrimage support.

See below for more feedback on Jen’s guided Caminos.

2025 Pilgrimages

Summer 2024 pilgrimages are fully booked, but Jen is looking to offer another pilgrimage experience or two in 2025. Please Email Jen for more information on future pilgrimages.

Post-Camino Support

Returning from the Camino can be extremely disorienting. The end of such a joyful experience and unique way of life can crash into the letdown from such a life changing moment. Allow yourself space to process through your experience so that you can re-enter into “regular” life with clarity and freedom. Individual and group support is available. Email Jen for more information.

Pre-Camino Support

You can only walk your own pilgrimage.

Walking a pilgrimage involves both practical and spiritual realities. Let me support you as you prepare for your pilgrimage experience. I’ll provide practical guidance, while also helping you discover what kind of pilgrimage you want to walk. Individual and group support is available. Email Jen for more information.

Pilgrim Feedback

Hear what other pilgrim’s have to say about Jen’s guided Camino experiences.

Jen brought both her practical wisdom for walking the Camino and also her spiritual wisdom in creating and making space for the Holy Spirit to affect each person and the group as a whole.

– Monica G.

If one would want a Camino experience but not the whole 500 miles, this is the best way to do it. Not only does one get the benefit of a wonderful trip, but the added spiritual component as well as new friends for life, if done with a group in the way that Jen structured the trip.

– Candy W.

I believe that the Lord invited me into a new stage of my personal healing journey with Him. Jen made it feel safe to share this with the group by she herself being open and honest and vulnerable and real.

– Cathy C.

This pilgrimage showed me that it is possible for me to have an adventure, and more importantly an adventure with God and others. I often have experienced myself to be very limited in what I can do and what I can experience, but this trip showed me that this judgment that I had about myself is not true. The Christian walk is a great adventure and this pilgrimage opened my eyes to it. Jen was such an amazing guide on this whole trip. I always felt that I could depend on her. The way she cared for us and lead us was such a wonderful experience.

– Brad V.