Soul Listening-Emily Peasley

08/26/2026

Dream Groups Starting Soon!!
Have you ever been curious about your dreams you dream at night? Dreams continue to intrigue me and cause great personal growth, whether they are my own or listening to someone else's. I'm offering a few opportunities for you to explore your dreams.

I am offering 3 dream groups starting in September. See below or check out my website for details www.soullistening.com Email or DM me to register or ask questions.

2nd Tuesday evening of each month
September thru April
7 to 8:30pm
Cost $240

2nd Wednesday morning of each month
September thru April
9-10:30am
Cost $240

2nd Thursday morning of each month
Spiritual Directors only group
September thru April
9-10:30am
Cost $240

Payment made by check, Venmo or PayPal
Email to sign up: [email protected] or DM me

04/01/2026

May you tend to your beautiful soul!

May you recognize in your life the presence,
power, and light of your soul.

May you realize that you are never alone,
that your soul in its brightness and belonging
connects you intimately with the rhythm of
the universe.

May you have respect for your individuality
and difference.

May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique,
that you have a special destiny here,
that behind the façade of your life,
there is something beautiful and eternal happening.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the blessing, 'For Solitude,' from his books:
Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Kerry, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

02/09/2026

Praying with Our Dreams Retreat

Come join us at the Creighton University Retreat Center in Griswold, Iowa for a weekend of prayer, dream work and community. We will spend time during the weekend engaging in dreamwork (group and 1 on 1) and exploring various topics around dreamwork including prayer, archetypes and shadow. No experience is necessary, only a desire to explore your interior life and grow in relationship with the Divine.

The weekend will be guided by Emily Peasley and Amy Hoover, experienced
spiritual directors and dreamwork facilitators. The retreat will start with
lunch at noon on Friday, April 24 and conclude Sunday, April 26 around
1:00pm. Cost is $400. This includes your private ensuite room, meals and
program fee.

Space is limited so register early by contacting
Amy Hoover, [email protected]

01/31/2026

Kindness has such a deep impact…

There is a kindness that dwells deep down in things; it presides everywhere, often in the places we least expect. The world can be harsh and negative, but if we remain generous and patient, kindness inevitably reveals itself. Something deep in the human soul seems to depend on the presence of kindness; something instinctive in us expects it, and once we sense it we are able to trust and open ourselves.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the books, Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

12/29/2025

A blessing for the end/beginning of the year...

AT THE END OF THE YEAR

As this year draws to its end,
We give thanks for the gifts it brought
And how they became inlaid within
Where neither time nor tide can touch them...

Days when beloved faces shone brighter
With light from beyond themselves;
And from the granite of some secret sorrow
A stream of buried tears loosened.

We bless this year for all we learned,
For all we loved and lost
And for the quiet way it brought us
Nearer to our invisible destination.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the blessing, 'At the End of the Year,' from the books
Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Winter Sunset at the Cliffs of Moher
County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

12/05/2025

Have you experienced having a “soul friend” as John O'Donohue explains?

ANAM CARA

In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship. One of the fascinating ideas here is the idea of soul-love; the old Gaelic term for this is anam cara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and cara is the word for friend. So anam cara in the Celtic world was the "soul friend."

In everyone's life, there is a great need for an anam cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home.

The anam cara experience opens a friendship that is not wounded or limited by separation or distance. Such friendship can remain alive even when the friends live far away from each other. Because they have broken through the barriers of persona and egoism to the soul level, the unity of their souls is not easily severed. When the soul is awakened, physical space is transfigured. Even across the distance, two friends can stay attuned to each other and continue to sense the flow of each other's lives. With your anam cara you awaken the eternal.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his book, Anam Cara,
25th Anniversary Edition, with commentary from John's close circle of friends.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/anam-cara

Fanore Beach, County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

11/21/2025

Are you discerning a new direction in life? How are you listening to your soul? Your soul knows...

Many different strands of your past experience begin to weave together until gradually the new direction announces itself. Its voice is sure with the inevitability of the truth. When your life-decisions emerge in this way from the matrix of your experience, they warrant your trust and commitment. When you can choose in this way, you move gracefully within the deeper rhythm of your soul. The geography of your destiny is always clearer to the eye of your soul than to the intentions and needs of your surface mind.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his book, Eternal Echoes.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Landing at Shannon, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

11/14/2025

The time to be slow…

This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

From his books, Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

10/16/2025

It was a great blessing share about Boundless Compassion and to meet and listen to so many women on their spiritual journey last week at Metanoia Christian Women's Retreat! Metanoia Iowa