Amy Boucher Pye is a London-based author, speaker, retreat leader, and spiritual director. She’s the author of seven books and resources, including the recently published Transforming Love: How Friendship with Jesus Changes Us and Holding onto Hope, featuring her dad’s artwork. Her first book, Finding Myself in Britain (2015), won the Christian living book of the year in the UK.
She writes for publications such as globally recognized Our Daily Bread and New Daylight, and is part of the God Hears Her community. She has an MA in Christian spirituality from Heythrop College, University of London, and enjoys leading retreats, including at El Palmeral in Spain, Lee Abbey, Devon, and Penhurst Retreat Centre in East Sussex.
Hello!
If we were meeting in person, I’d probably grill you about your life and interests because I love finding about about people’s experiences, passions, and callings.
I’m married to Nicholas, an English vicar, and we live in a lovely Victorian vicarage in North London with our two great kids who are increasingly launching into the world (with one at university and the other at film school).
My spiritual journey has included some mountaintop highs and a dark night of the soul. Yet in the day-to-day moments I’ve experienced God break in with his surprising grace, which changes me. I enjoy sharing these nudges of grace in everyday life, whether through my writing or in leading prayer practices (such as in my prayer videos). I love speaking to church groups, leading retreats, and accompanying people on their spiritual journey. I’m a spiritual director, associated with Coracle and the London Centre for Spiritual Direction.
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I also really appreciate books. I immersed myself in publishing for a couple of decades and now focus on writing as I work with words. For 16 years I loved running the Woman Alive book club, which I founded and which still thrives.
I also love baking Ghiradhelli brownies, working out in body combat classes, and listening to the roar of the waves.
Contact
You can contact me by email or follow me on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. My articles for Our Daily Bread appear here. I write a monthly newsletter which includes a prayer exercise; when you sign up, you will also receive my free prayer printable on ways to pray.
I look forward to continuing our conversation.