Amy Boucher Pye

Hi, I’m Amy!

As a writer and spiritual director, I love helping people encounter the living God. Welcome to this space of prayer practices, opportunities to retreat, and resources to strengthen your spiritual life.

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Explore different ways to pray that are time-tested but fresh. Connect with God through these guided experiences of prayer for a mini-retreat.

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Encounter God through my writing, including my devotional articles and my seven books and resources. Still Finding Myself in Britain has just been released – the updated ten-year anniversary edition of this award-winning book.

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Accompanying people as they walk with God is a privilege and a joy, as we notice together the movements of their soul. Find out more about this hidden work of God.

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I’ve led retreats and pilgrimages for over a decade in the UK and beyond, including at Lee Abbey, Devon, the island of Iona, and Penhurst on England’s south coast. I love helping people unwind and receive God’s love. Join me!

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Meet Amy

Amy Boucher Pye is a London-based writer, speaker, retreat leader, and spiritual director. She’s the author of seven books and resources, including 7 Ways to Pray and Holding onto Hope, featuring her dad’s artwork. She loves helping people encounter the living, loving God.

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Recent blog posts

  • Enjoying a Good Lent

    Easter is early this year, which means that Lent of course starts early too! Ash Wednesday is on 18 February, just over a week away. How might you spend this time leading up to Easter? Feel daunted by the traditional approach of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving? Lent can be a time for those practices, of…

  • Losing Ourselves to Find Ourselves

    Jesus said, “Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it” (Matthew 10:39, NIV). But these feel like hard words – self-sacrifice for ultimate gain? How can we even embrace this invitation, even if we want to? It’s one of the upside-down truths of the kingdom…

  • Books of 2025

    So many books… so little time – because of scrolling? We all fall prey to distractions and interruptions, don’t we. After being humbled in 2024 when I realized that I only read 22 books that year, I was more intentional in 2025, reading 43 books (but still down from the 60-something I used to read).…

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