Grounding + Becoming
A Soulspace Wisdom Cross-Pollination
Listen for what is already in you, the seed within reaching toward sunlight
What I need for the terrain ahead seems to be mysteriously sprinkled around me days, weeks, months, or even years before I need it. There is an inexplicable resonance—a knowing that doesn’t conform to my linear timeline and context.
I recognize it.
Wisdom cannot be known with the mind alone; it animates within me. I am known, and I know.
And still, I forget.
Practices draw me back to the center. I return. I drink deeply. I remember.
There is spaciousness inside to keep going.
Follow what draws you.
Notice what stirs.
What is recognition like for you?
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And here it is, unbound
A whole world exists on the underside, showing us something different, hidden in the dark. An audio poetry reading by Kirsten Harrison.
Wisdom: A Knowing in Darkness
An Audio Read-Aloud on Wisdom Knowing. Listen from the inside, noticing what is stirred in sensation, feeling, and/or cognition.
Re-Member Yourself: A Note From Kirsten + A Poem About Holding Obscurity
When obscurity rises, and
you cannot see where to step next,
your gaze turns ever-so-slightly outward.
Oh, how humbling it is to be human!
What My Soul Already Knows: A Simple Poetry Practice for a Dark Night of the Soul
A simple practice for drawing on wisdom beyond rational thinking and pro-con lists — a steadying anchor for the disorientation of a dark night of the soul.
Something Else: A Spiritual Director on Holding Obscurity & Disorientation
If you are in the thick of obscurity, holding inner tensions that cannot be resolved, or feeling disconnected from your deepest knowing. If you are disoriented as the sands of time flow through the hourglass at a dizzying pace and there is no rest in sight, please open to this possibility with me: a taste of something else may also be very nearby.
What if losing one’s way from time to time is the way?
Has anything ever been more clear? Anything more obscure?
Glimmering Landscape Time: Spacious Spiritual Practices for Disorienting Times
Spiritual practices for holding uncertainty, grief, disorientation, restlessness, and dark night seasons with presence, compassion, and deep listening.
Collaging Signals From a Creative Universe
When the gut-punch of anguish hit me hard, I collaged wisdom that called to me in songs and images.
Wisdom Collage Cards: A Spacious Way to Listen to Your Heart (Step-by-Step)
A simple, art-based spiritual practice for listening to your inner experience and moving from head knowing to heart knowing.
Moving Through a Dark Night of the Soul: A Spiritual Director Holds Space for Obscurity
A “dark night of the soul” is a season of spiritual disorientation—when what we once knew feels out of reach. This post offers a gentle map of what it can feel like, a reframe from “why” to “how,” and practical handholds for moving through obscurity.
A night of complete undoing
John O’Donohue give us words for the obscurity we encounter in our dark nights of the soul. I take comfort in knowing I’m not the only one to encounter this location in my spiritual geography.
Logos + Mythos
What voices guide you in darkness and complexity? Michael Meade is one of the voices I turn to. He calls me into stories.
The Dark Night, Songs for Our Seasons of Obscurity
This playlist is not designed to tell you that your dark night of the soul is not so bad, nor is it an attempt to coax you out of your dark night.