What Is a Spiritual Practice? How to Build Your Own
Original artwork by Marianne Mullen for Her Spiritual practice on being whole.
The question "what is a spiritual practice?" almost never has a clean answer.
It's not just meditation. Not just prayer. Not just yoga, or church, or therapy, though any of those might be part of it.
At Her Spirit Creates, we call the full constellation of your spiritual influences your A Team — the sources of guidance, inspiration, and inner knowing that you actually reach for when things get real.
Your A Team might include:
People you know personally — mentors, teachers, friends who tell you the truth.
People you've never met — writers, artists, musicians, activists whose work somehow speaks directly to you at exactly the right moment.
Spiritual traditions and practices — interfaith, interspiritual, traditional religion, metaphysical frameworks, ritual, prayer.
Your inner voice — the one that shows up in the shower, on long drives, in the middle of making something, that says listen to this.
The creative process itself — the way that working with your hands bypasses your thinking mind and takes you somewhere else.
Why creativity matters in a spiritual practice
For a lot of people, art is the fastest route to genuine inner listening.
Not because it's mystical — because it's physical and immediate. When you're making choices about color and texture and composition, you're not filtering through logic. You're responding. And what you respond to tells you something.
Marianne built Her Spirit Creates on this idea: that creativity is not separate from spiritual practice. It is one.