Rev. Dr. Lily Godsoe

Rev. Dr. Lily Godsoe is a spiritual guide, teacher, and speaker whose work explores the sacred journey of becoming more fully ourselves. Drawing from decades of experience in spiritual care, chaplaincy, recovery, and interfaith formation, she creates spaces where people can reflect deeply, navigate life’s transitions, and remember who they really are.

At the heart of Lily’s work is a belief that transformation is often less about becoming someone new and more about remembering who we have been all along. Life’s thresholds—grief and loss, recovery, spiritual awakening, changing relationships, vocational shifts, aging, and other seasons of profound change—can become invitations to release old identities, listen more deeply, and discover what is asking to emerge.

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Lily draws from spiritual direction, contemplative practice, ritual, sacred music, psychology, Divine Feminine wisdom, and symbolic and archetypal traditions. As a Feminine Path of Power mentor, she accompanies women in spiritual initiation, reclamation of voice, and embodied leadership. She also weaves flute music into meditation, ritual, retreats, and spiritual gatherings, using music to invite stillness, reflection, and deeper connection.

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An ordained Interfaith Minister, Board Certified Clinical Chaplain, and Board Certified Clinical Pastoral Education Supervisor, Lily holds a Doctor of Theology in Pastoral Psychotherapy and a Master of Theology in Interfaith Spiritual Direction. She has taught in spiritual formation and clinical pastoral education programs and contributed to the development of innovative approaches to chaplaincy, spiritual care, and professional formation.

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Lily’s call to spiritual care was awakened through her volunteer work with the Zen Hospice Project in 2008. She went on to spend over a decade in hospice, accompanying people through dying, grief, loss, and profound life transitions. These experiences continue to shape her understanding of the threshold as a sacred place—where an old way of being may be ending while something new is beginning to emerge.

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Today, Lily’s work extends beyond traditional spiritual care into teaching, speaking, retreats, workshops, program development, and creative spiritual practice. Recovery remains an important part of her story and informs her understanding of transformation, while belonging to a much larger exploration of what it means to live an authentic, spiritually grounded, and fully embodied life.

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Her work is grounded in a lifelong interest in how we change, how we make meaning from what we experience, and how we come to know ourselves more fully.