I find this model of soul care that Dr. Crabb presents, to be freeing. That when I am with a directee, I’m not trying to solve their problems, figure them out, psychoanalyze them, but rather to be with them, to discover them, below the false self and to explore their interior world. That this isn’t about coaching or counseling but rather a journeying- with- another, is exciting.
I also see how it would be very beneficial for those entering into soul care to have their own spiritual director, with whom they can ponder the stirrings, feelings, emotions they experience while offering spiritual direction to another.