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This is Me!

Mel Horvath-Lucid

In a world that seems to value opening doors and closing windows, I seek to bring voice to the between, the hallway, the spaces of transition that make up the bulk of our lives, and hold so much richness, if we dare for a moment to reflect.  My work seeks to bring voice to the inner journey, to the metaphoric closets that we occupy, roles we assume and games we play, to avoid really meeting ourselves or one another.  To bring voice to the sacrifice of fitting in and the true power and transformative potential of spaces of dignity and belonging, within us and around us.  We are a society longing to be.  I truly believe that love and pain are inseparable, so to Joy and sorrow, as well as grief and gratitude.  It isn't about getting away from the fullness of these seemingly polar contrast, but rather to learn to grow our capacity to hold and be with the contrasts within and around us.

 

In truth, those who seek me out for Spiritual Direction come from a broad range of religious, spiritual, humanist, earth-based backgrounds.  I am less interested in what it is you believe and more curious to walk with you as you discover deeper understanding of who you are, and the meaning that those spiritual connections offer you toward the most authentic version of you, and a real, intimate and healthy relationship with yourself.  My own spiritual journey spans many sources and I am grateful it has.  This exposure has informed who I am, and has afforded me a robust capacity to celebrate the many ways and sources that inform our own personal spiritual journey. I grew up with a Catholic Dad and a Christian Mom.  In my younger years, I went to mass, then joined my Mom at her church.  After my Dad died, we went to my Mom's church.  I left at 17 years old and then in a chance meeting, ended up connecting with a Mennonite Minister.  In my 20's, I was on path to becoming a Mennonite Minister.  By my late 20's, I was diving into Peace and Conflict studies, Restorative Justice, meditation, yoga, and possibilities of many faiths that could be supportive to one's journey.  I began working in a Unitarian Universalist congregation, and valued the opportunity to dive into and learn more deeply from many sources including: Earth-based, Indigenous, Pagan, Humanist, Christian, Judaism, Buddhism, Muslim, Sikh, Atheist, metaphysics...and that doesn't feel like it fully encompasses that.  I worked in various roles within UU contexts for 12 years, before deciding to step deeper into healing my own religious roots, which took me to Haden Institute, where I spent two years studying Spiritual Direction through mystical Christianity, Jungian psychology, tools like enneagram, myers-briggs, dream work, art journaling, prayer, meditation, contemplation and writing practices.  I healed there and I also came into the fullness of who I am as a proud queer, wild creative in tension with a religious upbringing that largely told me I was bad, wrong and/or defective.  Each step I have taken has seem to lead me to my next, and I then took a 2-year program in 5 element Tibetan tantra, rooted in the Shangpa Kagyu lineage of Buddhism.  This has lead to me to where I am now, which is about to embark on a 2- year Mindfulness Meditation Teachers Training program with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.  I am an active member of the Unitarian Universalist Spiritual Directors network, am a part of a sangha (community) that gathers monthly to focus on eco-spirituality and I believe deeply in the emerging work of the Wild Church Network.  You can find me speaking within various congregations, and facilitating workshops in a variety of settings, Spiritual Direction,  in addition to work I am a part of dedicated to Restorative Justice Practices.

 

I am a proud queer, wild creative who believes in the power of choicefulness.  I experience the world through the lens of creative co-creation.  I support the depth and quality of my writing through deep, deliberate self-reflection, art journaling, and a full commitment to creating “shitty art” to find within that, gems of the human journey, both the shit and magnificence that make up this life, and each and every one of us.  To no longer separate the good from the bad, and rather to stand firmly in the real, and meet it.  Creative expressions are a medium that I draw from to learn how to apply this ideology in other aspects of my life.

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My commitment to myself and to those who seek to work with me, to invite in greater space for aliveness.  To truly live this one wild and precious life, well and fully.

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