Grow Soul LLC

Grow Soul LLC Sarah Cledwyn, MA assists people and congregations to bolster their direct experience of Life Sarah is a certified Spiritual Director and a wedding officiant.

Sarah Cledwyn, MA is on a journey to live into authenticity and make choices of greater Life and Love in each moment. Sarah is dedicated to her own spiritual journey and assisting others as they make their way through this beautiful and complicated life. In 2012 she formed Grow Soul LLC to formalize her work companioning and witnessing the unique and amazing journeys of fellow sojourners. She meet

s with individuals and groups to explore their spiritual lives as well as writing and officiating custom wedding ceremonies and providing pre-marital counseling. Sarah works in the Twin Cities of Minnesota and in the digital universe.

11/26/2025

Yesterday I offered a free practice, which was just what I needed. Each practice opened me more deeply to the preciousness of life and the robustness of love. I'm still sitting with all that arose, letting the wisdom of shared practice soak into my being.

One of the pieces of beauty I sat with was the simple offering of hackberries from a tree in the park. In the midst of a rainy day, they brought me delicious and tasty sustenance. A precious and fulfilling gift to receive. One of the griefs I sat with today was the destruction of land and Indigenous people that is a part of our history. As I sat present with each, I could feel the delight and the sorrow in my body. The best part of the practice was making time for these two to interact and share wisdom. What came forth was sweet medicine and an appreciation for what is still here, who is still here, and the possibility that the living world holds right now.

If you would like to experience this practice, you can! I posted a guided video as a free gift. If you really like it, you can sign up for my online retreat-in-daily-life that starts Friday.
Practice: https://lnkd.in/grhhypgH
Retreat info: https://lnkd.in/g6AdTtHw

This morning I woke up in the thick of some sadness. I don't know if it's the gray day, or the heaviness in my body or m...
11/25/2025

This morning I woke up in the thick of some sadness. I don't know if it's the gray day, or the heaviness in my body or my glance through my email this morning, but whew. Sadness is here. As I made my way through my teary morning, what came to mind was both my excitement and contented feeling of getting ready to cook good food to share with my family on Thursday, much of it coming from my garden......and the email I got reminding me that for Indigenous folks the Thanksgiving holiday is more of a day of mourning for them, representing all that was destroyed and lost since Europeans showed up on these shores.
And I'm holding both. Because both are true simultaneously and both show faces of love....the celebration of harvest and the grief of devastation.

Just a reminder that I'm offering a free practice at noon and 7:30 Central today to sit in the space between beauty and grief, what is wonderful and what is difficult. Registration is required. Link in comments.

The other week I went out of town a ways to see the Northern Lights. They were so bright in the city, that we just had ...
11/21/2025

The other week I went out of town a ways to see the Northern Lights. They were so bright in the city, that we just had to seek darker skies. For my 16 year old, this was their first exposure to the aurora and as we settled on the ground in our blankets, we both exclaimed and fell into silence again and again in awe. There were shooting stars. There was no snow and no bugs. As we witnessed the exquisite beauty of the skies, there was such openness and beauty that they started to weep and then I joined them.
In that moment there was such an upwell of feeling in me. An almost physical sense of being on the edge of an experience so vast and wondrous that no words, no thoughts could even touch it. It felt life a certain kind of pressure to try to make enough room for the experience to just be without trying to explain it, limit it, make sense of it. Stretching open again and again followed by a kind of attempt to close down, make the experience manageable and open again.

As I sit now, I can feel the movement of the opening and closing like my breath coming and going.

When was the last time beauty tried to completely encompass you? Did you let it? Did you fight it? Did you shut it down? Has beauty been absent lately for you as life fills with disruption and a kind of unsettledness?

Come sit with beauty as we practice together next Tuesday. Free offering. DM for details or register on my site.

Where do you find beauty in your daily life?

I'm offering a free practice next Tuesday November 25th at noon and 7:30pm Central. I've gotten some questions asking f...
11/20/2025

I'm offering a free practice next Tuesday November 25th at noon and 7:30pm Central. I've gotten some questions asking for more details..... so here's some more information.

I have been doing various practices for the past two years, to try to fully come into this very moment. While this moment is always steadily right here, my attention can get lost in my thoughts, imagination, stories and feelings in a way that I have less access to what actually is so now. Also, I notice that negative or scary versions of these seem to be extra enticing, coloring my perceptions with fear.

When I can find my anchor point in right now and what's real, I find extra space to be fully in experiences both wonderful and difficult.

Our Tuesday practice will be a time to spend an hour coming into the right now as we embrace both beauty and challenge from a spacious stance. When our arms are wide open in this way, we will use our superpower of curiosity to integrate and find the space for all of Life to be, to be here, to be received and perhaps even to be loved.
I hope you'll join me.

This is a free event, but registration is required. Link in the comments.

"It's not supposed to be like this", I heard her say with tears in her eyes. Don't we all feel that way sometimes when ...
11/19/2025

"It's not supposed to be like this", I heard her say with tears in her eyes. Don't we all feel that way sometimes when we experience pain or witness the unfairness of the world? Something in us feels off. For some of us we continuously turn towards the lighter side of life, for some other of us, we turn towards the difficult. Both of these moves can be a kind of protection from being alive in this moment. And there is a kind of place we can inhabit that is big enough to fully meet the pain and fully meet the goodness as well. This Tuesday I'm offering 2 FREE online practices to gently meet what's beautiful and what's hard in that bigger space. Message me for registration info or sign up on Grow Soul. We'll gather at noon or 7:30pm Central on November 25th. Registration required. Pass on the invite. I hope to see you there.

11/14/2025

A friend sent me a poem today that really caught the tone of my upcoming retreat. It seems life shows up in all its complexity whether things are going great or very difficult. It's a practice and skill to keep showing up and opening up. DM me for details.

How
Teachers and fathers,
bakers and builders,
sisters in plaid shirts
and sons with shy smiles
kicked and punched,
sprayed and tackled,
grabbed and tased
and thrown to the ground,
locked up and jailed,
despised, dehumanized.
What is the heart to do when,
in the face of brutality, we hear
not only weeping, but cheering?
How do we go on?
Maybe you choose to ignore it.
Maybe you tell yourself,
this doesn’t affect me.
Maybe you rationalize.
Maybe you feel your heart break
again and again, as seed walls
must give for a seedling to grow.
Maybe you notice breaking open
is the only way love can go on.
Maybe you turn toward
life, belonging, respect
and ask your longing to grow you,
to guide your hands, your breath.
Maybe you say to the ache,
teach me, bless me, enliven me.
Maybe you listen more deeply.
Maybe you find other broken hearts
with heartbeats that rhyme with your own.
The terror is real. Fear is strong.
We are still here. How will we go on?

—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

It's live! I just put up the details and registration for my new online retreat-in-daily-life, Between Beauty and Grief...
11/13/2025

It's live! I just put up the details and registration for my new online retreat-in-daily-life, Between Beauty and Grief.

What I'm hearing:
I've been in many conversations lately about heartbreak. Looking at the news right now, whether here at home or abroad I am distressed and enraged in turn. Feeling into helplessness is an intense spiritual practice, but it feels unavoidable right now.

On the other hand, in my experience and many of my clients, there is also great beauty and joy. Many have wondered out loud how they could possibly celebrate, be joyful or relax in the midst of a world on fire. Is that even an ok thing to do?

This retreat is designed to help us find the connection and space to fully meet both beauty and grief, joy and pain, hope and despair as fully as we can. Life is rich and varied in wonderful ways. The more we can meet circumstances as they are without avoidance, the more vibrant life becomes. Life is an expression of love when we fully feel what's here and move from and to Source.

05/08/2025

I'm a mushroom!
It probably won't show up as my title on my business cards, but sometimes the work of transformation is easier to convey by metaphor.
What describes the work you do?

My latest retreat is called "Un-Shaming Sin". If you are looking for a Lenten community of reflection and practice, thi...
02/13/2025

My latest retreat is called "Un-Shaming Sin". If you are looking for a Lenten community of reflection and practice, this one might be for you.

Beginning March 4th, this Lenten offering provides 7 weeks of daily reflections and weekly zoom integration sessions to carry you through the season of noticing and turning that Christians celebrate every year. Running from Mardi Gras to Easter Monday, this will be a life giving deep dive into goodness.

What will we explore in our retreat time?

In the beginning, creation was called good. If we started out in goodness, what happened?!? It doesn't take any special vision to look around life and see that it isn't all good. It isn't all bad either, but something else is here. Sin is sometimes the word we use to name that something else. Somehow in my journey, and sometimes explicitly in Christian spaces, sin has gotten linked and conflated with shame. If one way to literally translate the word sin is to 'miss the mark', then the linking of 'something is off course' with 'I am bad' is at best unnecessary and at worst harmful.

The truth is that each way we are out of synch with goodness, the gap or the mismatch hold the keys and information for us to get back on track. This is great news because it means that our close noticing will provide its own invitation back into life's fullness. Used as a practice, we hone in on the one path- custom created for us- back into the Oneness that is the most true truth inside all else. However, if we shroud this information in shame, suddenly it's hard to look at, let alone see or examine, and this will muck up our practice, send us down dark alleys, and on detours of untruth. If it's too hard to look, we will never have eyes that see.

Who would love this retreat?

Curious folks who find Christianity to be a friendly or neutral influence in their spiritual journey will find joy and freedom in de-coupling shame and sin and finding a sure path of practice leading to a more direct experience of God/Love/Life.

Folks who have experienced religious trauma from the Christian church and get triggered by words like sin may find this retreat challenging or perfect depending on how much healing has been done around their wounds.

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