Kayla Craig
Author. Speaker. Spiritual Director.
Breathing room for your soul.
Kayla is a former journalist, bestselling author, and spiritual director who writes prayers and reflections for people who are just trying to catch their breath. Whether you’re looking for liturgies for parents or a short breath prayer to borrow…
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Our Daily Breath
Discover the breathing room you need to pray when life is loud.
Our Daily Breath is a year-long devotional for anyone who longs to pray but can barely catch their breath. You’ll find daily wisdom and breath prayers to move you from anxiety to calm, one day, one breath, at a time.
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Readers in 100+ Countries
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Both books on the ECPA Bestseller Charts
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78k Instagram Followers ✳︎ 18k on Threads ✳︎ 13k Newsletter Subscribers ✳︎ Readers in 100+ Countries ✳︎ Both books on the ECPA Bestseller Charts ✳︎
About Kayla
Kayla Craig is a former journalist, bestselling author, and spiritual director whose work blends contemplative faith with fierce tenderness for the world God loves.
She is the author of Our Daily Breath, Every Season Sacred, and To Light Their Way, and the creator of Liturgies for Parents. Kayla lives in Iowa with her husband, four kids, and two dogs, where silence is… aspirational.
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Speaking
Warmth & Wisdom for Your Next Event
Kayla speaks at retreats, conferences, and gatherings where she helps peace feel possible and prayer feel doable for real people, in real life.
Whether she’s leading a morning retreat for twenty or speaking to hundreds on the mainstage, Kayla brings her journalist’s curiosity and liturgist’s heart to every room. She comes with honest questions, relatable stories, breath prayers, and a stubborn hope that God is present in the everyday moments.
Kayla has more than 15 years of professional communications experience and has spoken at women’s conferences, church seminars, parenting gatherings, university chapels, and faith formation events. She is available for in-person and virtual engagements.
Don’t have the words to pray? Now you do.
Kayla’s books, To Light Their Way: A Collection of Prayers and Liturgies for Parents and Every Season Sacred: Prayers, Reflections, and Invitations to Nourish Your Soul and Nurture Your Family Throughout the Year, give you words to pray in the chaos of life. Both were EPCA Bestsellers.
Her newest book, Our Daily Breath Devotional: 365 Prayers and Practices that Whisper Peace in a Shouting World, is a daily collection of simple breath prayers and gentle prayer practices. It’s available for preorder now and will release October 6, 2026.
Books
Newsletter
Your Weekly Exhale
Named a Substack Besteller, Kayla’s “Year of Breath” weekly newsletter of breath prayers, practices, and spiritual formation reflections reaches thousands across 100 countries and all 50 states. Join the community of more than 13,000 subscribers.
Think of it as a soul care package of prayers to help you let go of that breath you’ve been holding.
Paid subscribers also receive a new batch of daily breath each week, along with reflection prompts, curated playlists, prayer practices, phone wallpaper, and more.
Writing Endorsements
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"I’ve so often prayed Kayla Craig’s words over my life, family, home, and community that the books have become dog-eared companions by now."
Sarah Bessey
NYT Bestselling Author
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"To Light Their Way is a beautiful invitation to pause and draw near to God, no matter the circumstance. For parents, this collection is a grace-filled place to turn when seeking language, hope, and peace."
Morgan Harper Nichols
Award-winning Artist & Poet
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"Kayla Craig gives a spiritual shorthand to grownups who long to have more meaningful, divine connection within their family’s day-to-day."
Erin H. Moon
Co-Host of “Faith Adjacent” & Author of “I’ve Got Questions”
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"Inspired, beautiful, heartfelt, compassionate, and real, these prayers will help you enter into a deeper relationship with God in almost every part of your life as a believer."
James Martin, SJ
NYT Bestelling Author
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"I suspect these prayers will be shared, remembered, and held close for many years to come.”
Cole Arthur Riley
NYT Bestselling Author
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"Kayla Craig does not offer us something new but something ancient—inviting us to embrace the rhythms of the created world as gifts that are meant to orient us toward a life rooted in the love of God."
Drew Jackson
poet and author of “Touch the Earth” and “God Speaks Through Wombs”
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"Kayla Craig compassionately takes us by the hand and invites us to remember that the Creator of the universe walks with us through each and every season."
Aundi Kolber, MA; LPC
Therapist & Author of “Try Softer”
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"Kayla sees our everyday as the very place we meet God, and in Every Season Sacred, she shares with us how we might too. But the best part is that she's offering us this lens not for ourselves alone but for the children we're raising."
Meredith Miller
Author of “Woven” & “Wonder”
Our Daily Breath Devotional
“This book is a collection of prayers and practices that whisper peace in a shouting world. Each day offers a simple way to pause, breathe, and awaken to the presence of God. It’s for anyone who longs to breathe again—to pray in real life. It invites you into a rhythm of contemplation and action: inhale and exhale.”
A Prayer for Parenting in an Overwhelming World
Podcast
The Liturgies for Parents Podcast offers an exhale in the chaos of life.
With short, welcoming episodes, Liturgies for Parents invites parents like you to take a breath and find comfort in the prayers of another.
Each week, you’ll hear some scripture, a short prayer, and a gentle reminder of God’s presence in your life from Kayla Craig, a mom of four and author of Every Season Sacred and To Light Their Way.