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December 2022

December 19, 2022

5 Books Your Pastor Should be Reading With Your Church

Below are five books your pastor should be reading with your church community. I don't...

December 14, 2022

2 Simple, Life-Changing Practices For Starting Your Inner Work

Sometimes it can be hard to know where to start with our inner work. We've...

December 10, 2022

4 Core Components of Contemplative Practice

When people first encounter the phrases “embodied spirituality” or “contemplative practices,” there are usually questions....

December 08, 2022

The Best Way I’ve Learned to Meditate

Over the past ten years, I've tried to meditate about a billion times. Every time...

December 06, 2022

Centering Prayer Is a Form of Meditation You Can Stick With

The 2023 Centering Prayer Summit is coming up! Register before December 10th and...

December 04, 2022

How Can Spiritual Formation Help Us Connect with Our Inner Lives?

A few years ago, I sat in a packed auditorium surrounded by hundreds of others...

November 2022

November 28, 2022

“Wow, there’s beauty here.”

"Wow, there's beauty here." It’s a simple phrase, but it’s led to a massive shift...

November 21, 2022

The Disillusionment of Church: Why Even Bother?

I sat in the front row of my childhood church in what I knew to...

November 14, 2022

There is No Such Thing as a “Calling”

I wasn’t “called” to be a high school teacher. In my experience, every time that...

November 07, 2022

4 Steps for Questioning Your Inner Critic

Here’s a simple method for questioning your inner critic. In education, there is a process...

November 01, 2022

Unmasking the Inner Critic: Lessons for Living an Unconstricted Life

Happy Tuesday, everyone! This is a bit of a promotional post because my new book,...

October 2022

October 24, 2022

The 9 Constrictions We Hold

(UPDATE: My book, Unmasking the Inner Critic: Lessons for Living an Unconstricted Life has now been...

October 20, 2022

Are You a Curmudgeon or a Dancer?

There are two paths in life I always want to keep my eyes on....

October 17, 2022

Are You Only Carrying a Ratchet in Your Emotional Toolbox?

We’ve all been handed ratchets. You’ve probably used one before – a ratchet is a...

October 13, 2022

Move Beyond the Box and See the World with Soft Eyes

Last month I had a conversation with Agrita over at the Mind Full of Every...

October 10, 2022

Finding the Path With No Arrows in Sight on the Camino de Santiago

We crossed into the town, exhaustion in each of our steps. This stretch of the...

October 06, 2022

Who Are Your Wisdom Teachers?

I can think of a few in my personal life – the folks who I've...

October 03, 2022

Are You In the Unknown of Disillusionment?

When I was younger, I had several teachers who served as mentors for me -...

August 2022

August 29, 2022

Taking a Break: Off to the Camino de Santiago for September

As I wrote about last month, I’m heading out on the Camino de Santiago on...

August 22, 2022

A New Book For You: Unmasking the Inner Critic

(UPDATE: Unmasking the Inner Critic: Lessons for Living an Unconstricted Life is out now! Grab a...

August 18, 2022

It’s Time to Move

There is something so deeply intimate about where one lays their head. It’s such a...

August 15, 2022

An Invitation into Shadow Work: Learning to See Deeply

Read more about shadow work here. In the spiritual life, shadows represent the parts of...

August 11, 2022

Why Church Won’t Change

If you hang around churches and church communities for long enough, you’ll almost certainly hear...

August 08, 2022

4 Resources for Finding Your Place

As I prepare to venture off in September on the Camino de Santiago, I've been...

August 04, 2022

Who Can I Listen to for Support and Guidance?

We live in a society that breathes stress and anxiety. From the constant deadlines of...

August 01, 2022

A Lesson on How to Support Those Who Are Grieving

So many of us don’t really know what to do with death. We’d prefer to...

July 2022

July 28, 2022

Have You Gone on the Camino de Santiago?

In just over a month, I'll be trekking along the Camino de Santiago. (Before we...

July 25, 2022

Free Tool: Find Wisdom When You Need It

So much of my spirituality is connected to the teachings of the mystics and elders...

July 21, 2022

What Can the Mystics Teach Us About Reconstructing our Image of the Divine?

The reason, it seems to me, the mystics are rarely spoken of in church settings...

July 18, 2022

What Do I Mean When I Say “God?”

It has been a long time since the word "God," for me, referred to a...

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