Your companion on the Journey
Eric
The Reverend Dr. B. Eric Rieger, founder of Sacred Quest, LLC is a United Methodist GBHEM endorsed Spiritual Director, a Certified Spiritual Director through the Metagem Institute, and a Certified Life & Health Coach through HCI. Eric’s passion is to accompany others as they experience the Divine’s great love for them and live into their unique wholeness, their True Selves.
Eric has a particular interest in working with Spiritual Leaders, and those deconstructing religion and reconstructing a healthy spirituality, ex-vangelicals, religious “nones and dones”, and those with “sacred wounds, church hurts and religious trauma.”
Eric’s passion for Leadership, Life, and Health Coaching comes from first-hand knowledge of the effect of stressors in his life, failures, set-backs, two heart surgeries, and his own quest for whole-hearted living and a healthy lifestyle.
“We are all on our own Sacred Quests. I have spent many years healing from a traumatic childhood and deconstructing and reconstructing my religious formation, and I continue to heal from spiritual trauma; I have a passion for walking alongside others as they heal, deconstruct and reconstruct their faith and build a healthy spirituality. I do not discriminate based on religion (or lack thereof), creed, ethnicity, status, gender identity, orientation, and ability. Rather, I welcome and celebrate clients from all walks of life.”
The Rev. Dr. B. Eric Rieger, an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church, became a United Methodist Pastor in 1996. He received a M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Eric later earned a D.Min. from Northern Seminary in Spiritual Transformation with Dr. Ruth Haley Barton as his major professor. He received a Certificate in Spiritual Transformation upon completing the Transforming Center of Chicago’s two-year experience in Transforming Community #6. Eric completed The Metagem Institute’s two year Spiritual Director Training & Certification program and now serves as faculty. Prior to going into pastoral ministry in 1996, Eric received a M.S. from the University of Tennessee in Educational Psychology. He co-created and ran a court-ordered Men’s Domestic Violence Program and worked as a Family Coordinator at DRI, the Detoxification Rehabilitation Institute in Knoxville, TN. Today, Eric is a part-time Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Chattanooga State Community College. He continues with his own spiritual direction and living by a Rule of Life. Eric is a co-creator and sponsor with the Wild Goose Festival (please join us!). Eric is a life-long learner and explorer who enjoys traveling, backpacking, canoeing, snorkeling, sailing, and camping with his family. Eric is married to the Rev. Evelyn Harris, a United Methodist pastor, the father of two adult sons, Matt and Philip, and step-father to Avi.