Colette Lafia
Author & Spiritual Director

a spiritual companion for the journey
OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DIVINE IS THE LOVE STORY WE ARE ALL LIVING.
The movement of our hearts towards Divine Love is the essence of our spiritual experience. It is my honor to accompany you on this profound journey into love—to offer you practices, prayers, and spiritual insights that will help you grow love-centered relationships with everyone and everything around you.
Work with Colette
- Online Retreats
- In Person Retreats & Days of Prayer
- 1 to 1 Spiritual Direction - in person or via Skype

Spiritual Direction
Work one to one with Colette in person or via Skype. Explore your hearts deepest desire for connection and union with the Divine.

In Person Retreats
Colette leads local retreats, workshops, and Days of Prayer.
Check upcoming dates and locations.

Online Retreats
Seasonal online retreats. Topics cover finding comfort & joy in everyday life, living a life overflowing with Divine love, and more.
Read with Colette
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Dwelling in the Heart
Colette Lafia · Dwelling in the Heart Welcome to Being Loved Becoming Whole – Living Inside Divine Love. I’m Colette. I’d like us to begin by sharing in a guided meditation together. So I invite you now to close your eyes or lower your gaze. Begin by taking three deep full breaths, inhaling completely, and…
Read MorePlaces of Comfort
Colette Lafia · Places of Comfort Let us begin by connecting more consciously with our breath. By letting ourselves become aware of the in breath and the out breath. Not changing it in any way, just noticing and connecting with it. Letting the breath settle us, connect us and take us more deeply into this…
Read MoreMeditation On Stillness
Colette Lafia · Meditation On Stillness Stillness. Taking a moment to stop. To stop. To give yourself permission to be still. To feel how restful it is to be still. Not that we can ever be completely still because, by nature, we fluctuate, we move, we breath, but there is a settling a stillness that…
Read MoreA Time to Pause and Reflect
A few weeks ago, here in San Francisco, the headline read, “100 days of Sheltering In Place.” It made me think of the annual “100 days of Kindergarten,” event we have at the elementary school where I work, a time to recognize all the hard work and learning that has taken place. We have passed…
Read MoreBeing Grateful to Meet Solitude
How can this be a time of solitude and not just separation and isolation? Thomas Merton, the Christian monk, wrote that “Solitude is not separation,” and that we go into the desert not to escape other people but in order to find them in God. During this pandemic, we’re spending more time with ourselves than…
Read MoreConnecting to Our Deepest Self Guided Meditation
What does it mean to connect to our solitude? What does it mean to know that there is a deep, secret, hidden present place within where we meet God and where God meets us. In those tender moments like right now, perhaps feeling overwhelmed, emotionally vulnerable, tired, there is a place within where it’s vast,…
Read MoreBOOKS BY COLETTE

The Divine Heart
Seven Ways to Live In God's Love
Forthcoming April 2021 from Monkfish Book Publishing
Spiritual director Colette Lafia tells us that at the core of our being there is an ever-flowing love relationship with God, and it’s here we find meaning in our lives.
Beautifully expressed, with examples and awakenings from the author’s own journey, The Divine Heart offers seven “invitations,” principles of spiritual practice that awaken us to the ever-abundant flow of Divine love.
"During these turbulent times, we need the steadying voice of feminine wisdom more urgently than ever. In this luminous book, spiritual guide Colette Lafia offers the fruits of her tenderly cultivated inner life to feed people of all genders who thirst for a direct encounter with the embodiment of love, which she recognizes as our own true nature."
--- Mirabai Starr, translator of John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila, author of Wild Mercy

Seeking Surrender
How My Friendship with a Trappist Monk Taught Me to Trust and Embrace Life
Published by Ave Maria Press, Spring 2015.
Order on Amazon or from your favorite bookseller today.
"In Seeking Surrender, Colette Lafia challenges our notion of surrender, inviting us to see it as a path of opening to the fullness of life. Her spiritual companion, a Trappist Monk from the Abbey of Gethsemani, encourages and guides her towards deeper trust along her journey in a series of letters shared over years. A beautiful and honest book." – Fr.Richard Rohr,O.F.M.

Comfort & Joy
Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others
Purchase the book with new journaling tips included on Amazon or from your favorite bookseller today.
Awarded “One of the Best Spiritual Books of 2008” by spirituality and practice.com
“In her book Comfort and Joy, Lafia’s warm prose knits a cozy tapestry of vignettes, observations, affirmations, and gentle questions covering the simple ways we can care for others and ourselves.” Janet Boyer, author of New Year, New You.
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CONTACT Colette
San Francisco, CA
If you would like Colette to visit your community, please contact her by filling out this form.
CONTACT Colette
San Francisco, CA
If you would like Colette to visit your community, please contact her by filling out this form.