Janet Lees, founder of Redeeming Eden Ministries, is from Cincinnati, Ohio.  She is a spiritual director, an international public speaker, a wife, a mother of seven, and a grandmother to an ever growing number of grandchildren.  Educated as a physical therapist, Janet co-founded a successful physcial therapy practice with her husband, Tim, in 1994 and continues to serve in an advisor capacity.  Her passion is sharing the gift of the spiritual exercises and accompanying others in their spiritual lives.  

Janet is a certified spritual director, receiving her certification in 1998 from the Jesuit Spiritual Center (formerly known as the Milford Spiritual Center).  Since then, she has directed priests, religious, and lay people — men, women, young and old — across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.   Janet is also an experienced director of the "19th Annotation of the Spiritual Exercises" of Saint Ignatius.  Since 2010, she has been teaching spiritual directors across North America how to give these "Exercises" in daily life to their own directees.   

She looks forward to sharing her passion and experience with you in this course that was offered for the first time in person in 2020, and is now being offered as a virtual learning experience!