Navigate loneliness and belonging with hope.
Loneliness can be confusing, but broadening
your belongings makes everything better.
Try broadening your belongings for 30 days with The Great Belonging Project and see what happens next.
Read The Great Belonging
If you aren’t sure how to wrap words around your experiences of connection and isolation, this book will help. Buy and read The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other to explore various angles of loneliness and belonging and discover what happens when loneliness loses its power.
Spiritual Direction for Belonging
If you’re curious about your experiences of loneliness and want to notice and broaden your belongings to yourself, others, the divine, and the world, schedule One-on-One Spiritual Direction for Belonging with Charlotte Donlon, Spiritual Director and Author of The Great Belonging.
The Great Belonging + Spiritual Direction for Belonging News & Updates
Charlotte Donlon’s writing and work help her readers, audience, and clients notice how art and other good things help them belong to themselves, others, the divine, and the world. This exploration of belonging is a sort of soulful noticing common to all humans regardless of one's faith tradition or lack thereof. Her readers and clients appreciate that she isn’t pushy about issues connected to faith and spirituality. Many of her spiritual direction clients and members of her broader audience come from faith traditions different from her own. Several people who meet with her aren't even sure what they believe, which is fine because she uses a framework of belonging and language of connection to have meaningful, soulful conversations.
Charlotte's first book, The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other, was published by Broadleaf Books in 2020. She is currently writing Spiritual Direction for Writers which will be published by Eerdmans in 2025.
Charlotte is the founder of Belonging through Art, Spiritual Direction for Writers®, Spiritual Direction for Belonging™, and Parenting with Art®. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and a certificate in spiritual direction. To receive Charlotte’s latest updates, news, announcements, and all kinds of good things, subscribe here.