Fiona Lynne Koefoed-Jespersen - writer, blogger and NGO leader. Seeking the sacred in the ordinary.

About me:

I am a Spiritual Director, trained through the London Centre for Spiritual Direction. I am also a Pilgrim Guide, and I love the sacred practice of walking on the earth. I am passionate about helping people connect with God, with themselves, and with the land and people around them. I lead retreats and quiet days to help people enter into this sacred connectedness.

My background is in NGO communications and leadership. I have worked for Prison Fellowship and EU-CORD, a network of international development agencies. I co-founded Serve the City Luxembourg, a volunteer organisation connecting volunteers with grassroots causes in that country. I am passionate about the importance and potential of NGOs, especially grassroots organisations, to impact change in their communities and the world.

In my spare time, I love getting out and exploring with my family, baking and cooking, growing vegetables in our little garden, and living within the natural cycles of the year.

Some of my most popular posts:

On Faith and Spiritual Practices

  • On tentatively trusting my desires
    • Maybe my worry that I’ll miss what God is calling me to, has caused me to miss one of his clearest signs of direction: my own desires.”
  • Learning to pray (again)
    • “The mantle of guilt I’d been wearing is being lifted from my shoulders, and instead I am being taught that prayer is a dance – a dance with the divine that spins and twirls me through my day.”
  • The Exhilarating Slippery Slope
    • “I’m learning how to lean into the questions. I haven’t found answers that satisfy for many of them yet. But that’s also OK. Because the truth about the slippery slope is, it’s kind of exhilarating.”

On Mothering and Miscarriage

  • Made in the Image (the thought that’s changing my parenting)
    • “I’d been approaching her as an unfinished creation, a project that God had started off but I needed to complete. Instead I was struck by this simple and profound realisation: she is already whole and perfectly formed.”
  • You didn’t fail at birth.
    • “I want to tell you something really important. I want to tell you that you don’t need to feel any shame over your births. You don’t need to feel guilty. You don’t need to be embarrassed. You didn’t fail at birth.”
  • The beautiful growth of Pregnancy
    • “I’m grateful for these long months to hold all my complex and mixed up emotions out in open wide hands, to allow Spirit to reach down and help me sort through everything with gentleness and grace.”
  • Shalom (on embracing the both-and)
    • “Wholeness looks like admitting I am both happy and struggling, that I am both full of faith and doubting everything.”

Connect with Me:

If you’re interested in working with me, have a question, or just want to connect, you can email me at: hello @ fionalynne.com

You can find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (occasionally) and Pinterest.