Hello! I’m Brianna McCabe (formerly Brianna Van Dyke).

I’m a seeker-poet-coach-editor, and I’m both deeply serious and deeply playful.

I’ve always been hungry for meaning in this life. I’ve been on a search for teachers and guides who can help with all my seeking…aka “can anyone tell me what all of this means????” And better yet if someone has a detailed map—ha.

Which is why I’m a graduate of the Martha Beck Wayfinder Life Coach Training Program and of The Center for Action and Contemplation’s Living School founded by Fr. Richard Rohr.

Stories and poems have been my guides as well. I have a master’s degree in English literature, and I dreamed up the award-winning literary and visual art magazine Ruminate, where I was editor-in-chief for thirteen years.

Now I’m here combining my loves and everything I’ve learned into coaching and editing. I co-create with my clients the very things I’ve been seeking—more coherence, more sturdiness, more meaning, and more trust—so that I can show up for this life I’ve been given.

Interested?

Me too. :) That’s why I do this work.

Oh, and I love sharing poems here and in my letters via email. Below is a favorite.

”God and I have become like two giant
fat people living in a tiny boat.

We keep bumping into each other and
laughing.”

—Daniel Ladinsky inspired by Hafiz

And I’m so grateful for my teachers, both living and dead, and the lineages of wisdom that they are a part of:
Martha Beck
Cynthia Bourgeault
Meinrad Craighead
Laurie D.
Annie Dillard
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
James Finley
Elizabeth Gilbert
G.I. Gurdjieff
Joy Harjo
Fanny Howe
Tony Hoagland
Deborah Levy
Pia Mellody
Richard Rohr
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Alice Walker
The Twelve Step Tradition

If you wanna chat, send me a note or sign up for my letters via email!