Books and spiritual direction offerings for people who care deeply about personal and world turmoil AND want to show up for their art, work, and relationships anyway.
If you feel everything deeply and don’t want to shut down or numb out…
If you feel guilty giving attention to your own spiritual growth or taking time to retreat and rest…
If you feel overwhelmed by the news or personal difficulties and still want to show up and offer good things to this world…
We got you.
Flourish Anyway™ Framework
Here’s what you can expect to receive from our books and offerings:
Spiritual Direction: Proven tools and contemplative practices gleaned from eight years of offering spiritual direction with hundreds of clients will help you listen to your own inner wisdom and move toward spiritual renewal, even when it feels like the wheels are falling off.
Rhythms, Rituals, & Retreats: Every offering is designed to help you establish layers of rhythms, rituals, and retreats that create more calm and less chaos—internally in your heart, mind, and soul, and externally in your art, work, and relationships.
Art as Solace: A specific focus on befriending art—poetry, painting, film, music, and more—as sources of comfort and belonging shows you how to use artful encounters and science-backed creative engagement strategies to support your well-being.
Belonging and Connection: Every book, retreat, and workshop centers on belonging, nonjudgmental inclusion, and spiritual flourishing, creating space for diverse backgrounds and meaningful connection for those who feel isolated or overwhelmed.
Practical Tools and Routines: You leave with personal practices, flexible routines, and simple tools you can integrate into daily life—supporting ongoing self-care and intentional breaks from stress and busyness in ways that work with your existing roles and responsibilities instead of against them.
Flourish Anyway™ Featured Offerings
WORKSHOP (Video + Resources)
Nov. 23 Online WORKSHOP
Nov. 30 & Dec. 1
Online RETREAT
Join us live or watch the recordings. Register for one or more. Contact Charlotte at charlotte@charlottedonlon.com if you’d like a coupon code.
Sanctuaries of creative renewal, soulful belonging, and spiritual exploration for people who know life will always be at least a tad chaotic.
Connect with Charlotte Donlon’s writing, projects, spiritual direction, and other offerings to help you thrive, especially when life is imperfect.
Flourish Anyway™ is the online creative and spiritual offerings hub of Charlotte Donlon, writer, spiritual director, and founder of initiatives that nurture connection and artful living. Charlotte brings a welcoming, nonjudgmental approach to her writing, spiritual direction, and all she creates.
Author of The Great Belonging (Broadleaf Books, 2020) and the upcoming Spiritual Direction for Writers (Eerdmans, 2026), Charlotte combines deep expertise in writing, spirituality, and community-building with a vision for flourishing in every season.
Cycle-Based Spiritual Practice: Charlotte uses a cycle/process approach (beholding, belonging, becoming, bestowing) at the intersection of the creative life, soulful desires, and spiritual refreshment to help participants find meaning even in turbulent times.
Gentle & Supportive: Charlotte’s clients and readers appreciate her messaging and facilitation style that prioritize warmth, emotional resonance, and gentle support. She helps people feel safe to explore their questions, resistances, and hopes.
Ready to Flourish Anyway™?
Book a spiritual direction session, inquire about retreat offerings, purchase The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other, pre-order books from our new small press, set up a speaking engagement, or join us for upcoming workshops and gatherings.
Contact: charlotte@charlottedonlon.com
Charlotte Donlon is a writer, spiritual director, and gatherer whose work has woven together themes of belonging, art, and soul exploration for more than 10 years. With a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and a certificate in spiritual direction, Charlotte guides individuals and communities in fostering sanctuaries of acceptance and connection—her approach warmly welcomes people from all backgrounds, regardless of faith tradition or spiritual inclinations.
She is the author of The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other (Broadleaf Books, 2020) and the forthcoming Spiritual Direction for Writers (Eerdmans, September 2026), as well as the founder of initiatives like Spiritual Direction for Writers®, Take More Retreats, Belonging through Art™, and Parenting with Art®.
Flourish Anyway™ is an online hub for Charlotte’s writing, spiritual direction, and special projects that nurture creative flourishing and belonging, providing compassionate, practical, and artful resources to her readers, clients, and broader audience. Subscribe to Charlotte’s primary email newsletter here.