Enter the Wilderness of Your Heart
In this flagship guide to emotional and spiritual healing, Sr. Josephine Garrett invites you to explore the interior landscape of your heart. Drawing on her clinical experience as a licensed mental health counselor and Catholic spirituality, she offers a path toward healing: allowing God to meet you in your wounds, free you from past hurts, and open your heart to his love and mercy.
Wilderness of the Heart Companion Videos
In this video series, Sr. Josephine Garrett explores the themes of each chapter, guiding you through clinical and spiritual practices designed to help free your heart from past wounds that may hinder healthy relationships with God, yourself, and others. Along the way, she introduces practical tools and exercises, including the Ignatian Daily Examen; reflections on your psychological and relational experiences with God, Mary, the Church, and yourself; an assessment of your approach to conflict; lectio divina; and more.
Wilderness of the Heart Audio Affirmations
You don't have to journey through Advent alone. Whether you’re part of a parish small group, book study, or just gathering some friends for spiritual reflection, Illuminate offers a shared path towards the light. Your purchase comes with a free leader's guide, a companion video series, and both printable and digital resources to make group discussion easy.
Let this be the season your community slows down, reflects, and welcomes the light together.
Let Sr. Josephine Guide You through Lent with Wilderness Within!
Sr. Josephine will guide you to attend to the wilderness of your heart as a place to be explored, restored, and sent on mission by Jesus’s tender love.
Each day’s content includes brief meditations, specially crafted illustrations, thought-provoking reflection questions, heartfelt prayers curated to uplift your spirit, and ample journaling space for personal revelations and insights. Whether you’re journeying alone or with a group, Wilderness Within is your guide to a beautiful and renewing Lent.
Resources for Wilderness Within
Each video dives deeper into the theme of the week found in Illuminate. Watch the videos with your parish, small group, or on your own as you work your way through the journal.
About the Author
Sr. Josephine Garrett, CSFN, is a sister of the Holy Family of Nazareth, a licensed counselor, host of the Hope Stories podcast, and a sought after Catholic speaker. She is the author of Wilderness Within: A Guided Lent Journal for Prayer and Meditation.
She earned a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and became a nationally certified counselor licensed in Texas.
She has previously worked as a school counselor in Tyler, Texas, and in a private practice setting serving survivors of trauma. She is presently serving as director of clergy mental health programs for Clergy Care. Garrett is a voice for mental health on various platforms such as Formed and Hallow.
