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About Jeanie Miley

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Jeanie Miley is a writer and columnist, a retreat leader and speaker on topics of spiritual growth and wholeness. She is the author of six books and has written a weekly newspaper column, "Growing Edges", for twenty-five years. Presently, she is writing columns for two websites. Since 1971, Jeanie Miley has been fascinated by the integration of psychology and spirituality, forming a deep belief that religious practice or dogma means nothing unless it makes a difference in the everyday life of the individual and in personal relationships. One of the most frequently-heard comments about Jeanie's teaching and writing is that it is "practical, meeting everyday-needs of persons of all ages." 

Jeanie has read and studied broadly in the areas of spiritual growth, and her teaching rests, as she says on a "four-legged stool". As a minister's daughter, her earliest training was in the teachings of the Bible, and in 1971, she was introduced to the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, identifying immediately that the principles of the recovery program were consistent with the teachings of the Bible. 

In 1979, she began a quest in the area of contemplative prayer and meditation, and has studied under Thomas Keating at the Benedictine Monastery, in Snowmass, Colorado. She is a trained facilitator for Centering Prayer workshops. Most recently, Jeanie has been a student of the teachings of Carl Jung, through her own analytic process of many years, and regularly taking classes at the C. G. Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas. Through the analytic process and her study, she has come to a deeper understanding of Jesus' teachings about "the kingdom of God within." 

Graduating from Baylor University in 1967, Jeanie has continued to receive training in the areas of Marriage Enrichment, Couples Communication, The Thomas Concept Relationship Seminars and parenting seminars. Jeanie is a graduate of the Spiritual Direction Institute at the Cenacle Retreat House, in Houston, Texas, and has a full practice of directees. With a belief that the goal of any spiritual growth process being to heal, transform, liberate and empower individuals, Jeanie's mission is statement says that whether she is writing or teaching, her intention is "to connect people to God, to their own souls and to each other, through writing and teaching." Jeanie teaches a popular women's Bible study at River Oaks Baptist Church, in Houston, Texas, and at other cites in the Houston area. She is a frequent retreat leader for groups of many denomination across the country, and she has most recently taught in a school for women leadership in Seoul, S. Korea.

 Her book, THE SPIRITUAL ART OF CREATIVE SILENCE, has been translated into Korean by Tyrannus Publishing Company. As a speaker, she has recently spoken at such events as the River Oaks Women's Association, at the River Oaks Country Club, in Houston, Texas, and the annual faculty/student retreat at Mercer University, in Atlanta, Georgia. A sustaining member of the Junior League of Houston, Jeanie has served on numerous boards and committees, including the editorial board of Interfaith Ministries, in Houston, the Spiritual Formation Task Force and the Coordinating Council of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Executive Board of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Jeanie Miley has been married to Martus Miley since December, 1967, and they are the parents of three adult daughters, and the grandparents of four.

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