What do you (Patricia Kelly) want to get from your spiritual practice?

I want my connection with the Divine to be free and uncluttered.  I want nothing less than total spiritual transformation.

How much time to do you want to spend on your spiritual practice?

I believe that there is nothing that is not spiritual.  A wise man once said it best...

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings have a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

That being said, all activities to me are spiritual.  I don’t need to remember this constantly to have things be a spiritual activity.  If you were to ask me how much formal time I spend on my spiritual practices, I would say, approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours daily.

What is the goal of your life?..

I believe that just as we have earthly fathers, we have a perfect father who lives in Heaven. He has a beautiful plan for our happiness not just here on earth but in the afterlife. My goal is to become like Him. It won't happen in this life, but it is a goal that organizes and gives purpose and meaning to everything I do.  It organizes where I live, what I am doing, what my priorities and tasks will be and what they will not be, who I will be and who I will not be.  What comes to mind is the scripture of Jesus explaining what it means to be born of the Spirit. He explains it to the shy, worried Nicodemus like this in John 3:8 (KJV), "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit."  Is is the desire of my life to embody this teaching, to be or to go wherever I am led by God and to let His will be the utmost influence in my life. Another way of putting it is, I desire to live a Self-led life.

Are there any spiritual teachers that you have found helpful or important? If you care to, explain why they are/were important.

My first spiritual teacher that I knew and still know well, is my mother. She is the first person who taught me how to reach out to God and find that he really is there for me, no matter what. She taught me that nothing is too small or too big for God to help me with.

My second spiritual teacher that came into my life, is Jesus Christ. I thought I knew him until everything I knew to be true, fell apart in my life. I experienced a lot of suffering and grief during this period but I also experienced a lot of God, a lot of moments asking the hard questions, needing desperately to know the answers. It was through these dark desperate moments he showed me the way to his love and presence.

Richard Schwartz founder of the Internal Family Systems therapy model.

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Becky Edwards 
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Katie Robb, my very own identical twin sister. She has taught me much about spiritual things in our long conversations.

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Tana Clark 
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Esther Korajac
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Amber Parrish
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Russell M. Nelson
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David Bednar
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Sheri Dew
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Dale and Phyllis Kenison
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Diana (my now passed on amazing trauma therapist)

And many others who have been and still are my spiritual teachers.

What spiritual transformation approaches have you tried?

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Prayer
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IFS
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Celestial Therapy
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Heaven Journaling
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Energy work
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Body work
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Cranio sacral work
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Massage therapy
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Traditional talk therapy
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Meditation
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Integrative Processing or The Process
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Journaling
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Foot-zoning
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EMDR
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What spiritual authors or books are important to you?

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The Holy Bible
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The Book of Mormon
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Light in the Wilderness by Katherine Thomas

Will You Engage in the Wrestle by Sheri Dew

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Wendy Watson Nelson & Russell M. Nelson
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Self Deception and Leadership - by the Arbginer Institute

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Heaven Journaling by Becky Edwards
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BYU Speeches
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Blog - LDS Perfect Day
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Have you experienced your own spiritual rebirth/transformation? Can you share a bit?

I believe spiritual rebirth for most of us happens over the course of a lifetime, slowly, gradually as we meet life's refining fires and look to God for his transformative power to change us into new creatures in Christ.  I do have moments recorded on my heart of times when I felt particularly that I came out feeling transformed into a closer higher version of my true Self.  From 2015-2017, I had several sacred experiences that transformed my understanding of God and radically changed how I see myself and others.