Hello Dear One.

Welcome.

These bio pages are a bit fussy for the likes of me. I know we are a curious bunch though and we like to put a face with a name. Or in this case, a face with Evergreen Soul Wellness. So I’ll share my journey (grab a cuppa, it’s a long one) the way I prefer, you sitting on my couch, warm cups of good things warming our hands, a little sweet something-something on the table, and a good hour or so to catch up. I’d much rather hear what’s going in your life and journey, but I suppose I better share first seeing how this is the “meet Amy” page. Heaven help me.

I’m Amy Brady and I have been companioning women on their spiritual formation journey for over 30 years. And I’ve loved every season of doing so.

I began as a Bible Study facilitator at my local church at 24 years of age. I know, what in the world did I have to offer? But someone thought to put me in that role and it was the beginning of a decades-long love of walking beside women on our way to the feet of Jesus.

After my husband’s job moved our family to Orlando, Florida to work for the Mouse, I began a Bible Study for my neighbors. We soon outgrew my living room (which didn’t take much) and started meeting at a community center. This led to invitations to speak at women’s events, which evolved into me becoming a professional speaker for conferences and retreats. I absolutely loved that time of my life. You may never believe that I used to be sickeningly afraid to speak in public, but God had His way of working that out.

Still leading Bible studies weekly and running out of material (this was the early 2000’s y’all and resources for women were minimal), I began to write Bible Study curriculum for my ladies. These evolved into video studies as well and it wasn’t long before my resource table was full and I was teaching to hundreds of women a week. Still hard to believe.

In 2007 I went on my first international trip to China, and came home with a deepening desire to step fully into a dream I had since childhood, adoption. When our girls came home, four years apart, everything stopped, and I had to step away from all the ways of ministering to others in order to give my full attention to our teenage sons and our two toddler and preschooler daughters. I affectionately refer to this as my TNT season of life (tots and teens). The transition was hard and beautiful and utterly consuming. After many years of daily struggle, I found myself battling depression.

I felt so distant from my sweet Friend Jesus, oh He was there, I just couldn’t see Him really well, clouded by physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion. I found myself on a yoga mat, being encouraged by four doctors to give it a try to help my mental health. I couldn’t imagine God would send me to a yoga mat to begin healing but I was desperate for peace. To my utterly and eternally grateful surprise, He did indeed meet me there. After all, He is God and He does as He pleases, and often that involves Him bursting out of the boxes I like to keep Him in. And that began my journey back to well-being, eventually leading me to become a Master Yoga Instructor and a trauma specialist.

Through the hardest season of my life, I discovered the ancient practice of Spiritual Direction, and it is here that I have made my home, as a Spiritual Director myself, as well as a Guide for The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Now I gratefully companion other women in discerning and being formed by the ways Jesus comes for them in the sweet companioning places of Jesus’ heart. 

I decided to house all of my offerings in one place: Evergreen Soul Wellness.

After all I have experienced, I truly believe you can keep your soul evergreen in any season of your life. I’m living proof. And Love compels me to share it with you.