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About Soul Care
The uniqueness of Soul Care springs from our passion to help people and organizations fully maximize their God-given potential
by caring for what's inside--the soul.
In 1999, Mindy Caliguire launched Soul Care, a publishing and ministry vision dedicated to helping people restore health to their souls. The first "products" were an assortment of high-quality Soul Care® Journals packaged with a small booklet she and her husband Jeff authored on journaling: Write for Your Soul.
In both Christian and general market bookstores, the journals sold well--evidence of a growing hunger for authentic Christian spirituality and the need for practical helps in experiencing God. The vision of Soul Care kept emerging... what other resources would feed the soul? What would help someone who was far from God but interested in the soul? How can we best communicate the urgency and critical importance of soul care?
She served as a staff member in spiritual formation at Willow Creek Community Church from 2001 to 2004, concentrating on membership, the Ministry of Prayer, small group curriculum, and staff team “soul care”. In 2005, she re-engaged with the vision of Soul Care, serving churches and organizations as a leadership consultant and speaker.
Speaking engagments include: Willow Creek Community Church and Association Spiritual Formation Forum, WBCL, Heartland Community Church, SpringBranch Community Church, The Salvation Army, New Hope Church, and Savannah Christian Church.
Consulting clients include:
Savannah Christian Church, Salem Baptist Church of Chicago, and the Spiritual Formation Alliance.
Whether formally or informally, Mindy mentors leaders; focusing on re-establishing their spiritual vitality as the primary step towards a lifestyle of sustainable ministry and leadership.
Jeff and Mindy Caliguire
Since their college sweetheart days at Cornell University, Jeff and Mindy Caliguire have engaged in a quest to nurture their souls and create forums to help others to do the same. After graduating from Dallas Theological Seminary, working in corporate America, and interning at Willow Creek Community Church they founded Operation Beacon Street, Beacon Community Church and the Boston Sports Fellowship in the Boston area.
Jeff works as a financial consultant, and has published two other books...
 
Mindy and Jeff have been married since 1987 and have three sons, Jeffrey, Jonathan, and Joshua (the J-Team!). They are both active members at Willow Creek and make their home in Algonquin, Illinois.
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"The soul...manifests amazing capacities for recovery when it finds its home in God and receives his grace."
Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Oscar Wilde
"Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever to have truly lived."
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"When we speak of the human soul, then, we are speaking of the deepest level of life and power in the human being."
Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart
"We are apt to think our great problems are external, environmental. We are not skilled in the inner life, where the real roots of our problem lie."
Thomas Kelly, A Testament of Devotion
"In my travels, I find that most people today are restless and hungry to get "into the game" and experience the deeper meaning of their lives. They just don't know where to start."
Ken Blanchard, Co-Author, the One Minute Manager
"And the very first thing that we must do is to be mindful of our soul, to acknowledge it. .It is necessary to take the soul seriously and deal with it regularly and intelligently."
Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart
"I want to live my life, not have life live me!"
Lori Peterson, friend
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, The Life of Reason
"The soul, though at all times hidden, is at all times revealed, expressing itself through everything we say and do. Through the ordinary brushstrokes of everyday life, a portrait of our soul is being painted."
Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul
"How better to keep in touch with God's work in me than to record what is happening to me day after day?"
Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak
"The emotional depletion that results from living in crisis mode eventually produces a shrinking heart."
Bill and Lynne Hybels, Fit to be Tied
"Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart."
John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted
"Journaling allows me an objective audience for pouring out my heart. An inviting blank page doesn't judge my ideas, fears, or questions."
Julie Staub, friend
"And this simple concept, of making sure that our daily activities reflect our deepest core values is the concept that has made all the difference in my own life."
Hyrum Smith, Ten Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management
"Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention."
Frederick Buechner, Whistling in the Dark
"The problem is not entirely in finding the room of one's own, the time alone, difficult as that is. The problem is more how to still the soul in the midst of its activities."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea.
"Do not try to be someone you are not. It will cause you great stress and deep frustration."
Bobb Biehl, Stop Setting Goals (If You Would Rather Solve Problems)
"A diary helps build up the muscles of your personality. In truth, those of us who keep diaries cannot stop."
Alexandra Stoddard, Living a Beautiful Life
"Suffering always changes us, but it does not necessarily change us for the better."
John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted
"All great happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks, the art of life is to get the message."
Malcolm Muggeridge, British journalist
