Founder & Chief Executive Saunterer
With over 38 years in non-profit ministry experience, Paula has worked, lived, and traveled all over the world helping to shepherd and provide soul care for exhausted people doing good work. She has made a career of studying busy-ness having seen firsthand the detriments of hurry-sickness in her own life and those to whom she ministers. As a self-described “Occupatologist” (one who studies busy-ness), she is committed to helping come alongside people to help them slow their frenzy and find what makes them feel fully alive. Paula is a sought after international speaker and retreat leader--offering a unique (slower and more quiet) experience than typical noisy and busy weekend getaways.
Paula has also authored two books on Kindle--her best-selling Lenten devotional: “unhurryUp into Easter: A Lenten Pilgrimage” and “A Wild and Precious Advent.” She is currently involved in a Doctorate of Ministry program in Spiritual Formation and Relational Neuroscience.
As a Focusing Oriented Spiritual Director, Supervisor, and Transformational Entrepreneur, Paula currently lives near Vancouver, WA where she saunters, lingers, and frolics daily with some of her favorite people (and pets).
Over the last three decades of vocational, non-profit ministry, we’ve realized that most people are supremely tired. In fact, when we speak and lead retreats and ask people to rate the aliveness of their soul, the top two words are “tired” and “busy.”
Tired of being on a hamster wheel
Tired of skimming their lives instead of actually living them
Tired of being tired
Tired of feeling frenzied, fragmented and fake.
If this resonates with you—you’ve come to the right place.
reFreshed was birthed after Paula spent two decades working with burned out missionaries and pastors (and discovered that the word “workaholic” was actually first proposed in a study done on the stress and burnout of clergy!) She wanted to create an unhurried space to help others live out of God’s Deep Delight and become more comfortable Living that Delight out into the world in unique and transformative ways.