Rachael Litchfield

Spiritual Director
Written By Angela Hoskins

Rachael Litchfield, Spiritual Director

 

Region: SA

Rachael has been involved for many years in cross-cultural mission work in Thailand, Cambodia and Australia serving in physiotherapy, community health, leadership and pastoral care roles. The many complexities and stresses of this ministry drew her to seek out deeper spiritual formation and sustenance through engagement in spiritual direction, contemplative practices, silent retreats, and intentional guided sabbatical. This journey led Rachael to study a graduate diploma of spiritual direction at Tabor College, Adelaide while completing a doctor of ministry degree with a dissertation titled “A Spirituality for Transition Grief”.

Rachael is now a supervisor in the Tabor spiritual direction program and has a private spiritual direction practice. She loves this work of prayerful accompaniment, presence and creative retreats believing we all need support and encouragement to slow down, listen attentively, and connect deeply to our inner selves and the Spirit of God in order to grow towards a wholistic and healthy spirituality that has restorative impact beyond ourselves.

More recently Rachael has returned to her health care roots and added hospital chaplaincy to the mix. This continues to be a stretching and deeply sacred experience of accompaniment and listening presence in places of grief and suffering.

Angela Hoskins

Built my first site in 2000 and steadily learned what it takes to make websites work. Dabbled in WordPress back then, still do. Since building my first Squarespace site in 2016, I’ve been impressed with the relatively streamlined approach to website design and development that Squarespace offers compared to WordPress. SEO was a major challenge from the start — I’ve spent a lot of time keeping up with what’s required to get sites working, ranking well on a SERP. I have confidence with what Squarespace offers for SEO.

Having worked for more than 10 years in the web team of an inland, regional university in Australia and dealing with frustrations that come with working for a large corporate enterprise, the idea of setting up my own web design business became my goal.

Set up my business in late 2017. Opted for a sea change, too: I now live on Coochiemudlo Island 45 minutes from Brisbane. Love working from home. Love working for small business clients. Still get casual work with the university.

Challenges? The main one is pricing my work for small businesses. Doing quality work, doing the research to be up to date in the industry, takes time; it’s hard to factor in this time to my pricing while being competitive in the market and affordable for many small businesses.

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