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November 2022

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 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 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 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 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 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 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...

July 14, 2022

4 Steps To Connect Deeper and Transform our Lives

In a recent podcast, I shared that I believe much of our American culture, and...

July 10, 2022

3 Wisdom Teachings that Help Me Grieve

A few months ago I wrote a piece detailing the wisdom teachers who have...

July 07, 2022

Wisdom is at the Crossroads

Does not wisdom call and does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights, beside...

July 04, 2022

We Need to Get Real About Freedom

For many of us, myself very much included, we have been brought up to respect,...

June 2022

June 30, 2022

Pastoring, Re-wilding God, and the Contemplative Path

It’s a strange thing to be connected with so many Christian clergy and yet have...

June 23, 2022

Experiencing Spirituality as Radical

Another way we might think of spirituality is as a radical process of seeing what’s...

June 13, 2022

Are You in the Midst of It?

My good friend James A. Pearson wrote the following poem as the full weight of...

June 09, 2022

The Anxiety of the Moment and the Hornets Buzzing in My Chest

For the past few years, there seems to be an every-present level of heightened anxiety...

June 02, 2022

Church Should Feel Like a Workshop

There’s a big difference between taking a “course” and taking a “workshop.” A course is...

May 2022

May 26, 2022

Questions Are More Important Than Answers

When I became a teacher, I was trained in a pedagogy and a teaching style...

May 23, 2022

What is an Embodied Spirituality?

For those of us who grew up in the Christian Church, our bodies were too...

May 19, 2022

Meet Kelsey, a Contemplative Death Doula

What do we do with death? How do we process it, understand it, prepare for...

May 16, 2022

Mary Oliver and the Question of ‘Good Enough’

I sat in the room looking back and forth between my color-coded spreadsheet and my...

May 12, 2022

What Are You Clinging To? Mary Oliver and the Practice of Letting Go

Where do you carry tension in your body? For as long as I can remember,...

May 09, 2022

What Do I Mean When I Say “Spiritual?”

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

May 02, 2022

What are Contemplative Practices?

(UPDATE NOVEMBER 1, 2022: My book, Unmasking the Inner Critic: Lessons for Living an Unconstricted...

April 2022

April 28, 2022

How Are You Tapping into Your Creative Nature?

Creativity is not a superpower. It isn’t a form of magic that is bestowed upon...

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