Grounding + Becoming
A Spacious Wisdom Cross-Pollination
Listen for what’s already in you, the seed within reaching toward sunlight. Stretch into what only you can become.
There is no limit to what Wisdom will shine through to reach us. Silence, nature, art, music, words, and connection are some of the prisms through which the invisible may become briefly visible to our subtle senses.
What we will need for the terrain ahead is mysteriously sprinkled around us days, weeks, months, or even years before we actually need it. There is a resonance we cannot quite explain—a knowing that doesn’t seem to conform to our linear timeline and context.
We recognize it.
Father Bruno Barnhart distills the essence of Wisdom:
“If we require a definition, let us call it knowing: a knowing that is personal, experiential, and tending toward union with that which is known.”
Wisdom cannot be known with the mind alone; it ripens in us, as us.
You are known, and you know.
Wisdom practices help us fine-tune our senses and cultivate inner stability to be present to reality, even when it is hard.
Follow the threads that draw you and listen for what is stirred within.
The Ocean is In Us, Too: A Spacious Dialogue About Living, Creating, and Becoming
There’s a certain kind of magic that happens when we drop into the flow of relating, present to the “unclear edge” of what is sensed, but needs space to find verbal expression. This conversation has been singing in me for weeks.
Tending Our Souls Collection, Part One
As social media is changing, algorithms are making it difficult to get the word out about what we are creating. I want to spread the word about cool things that are available to support us in this vital work of tending our souls.
Good Conversations as Food + Drink for the Soul
John O’Donohue said good conversations are like “food and drink for the soul.” What does this stir in you?
Being with others when they are in pain
I’m always on the look out for ways to be with people more skillfully and artfully. Dr. Ham has some wonderful videos that break complex concepts into simple explanations that make sense to me.
Audio Divina: Listening deeply with “Gracias a La Vida”
Here’s an invitation into a new-to-me spiritual practice I encountered on the CAC’s instagram site.
It’s All Worth Living For
Poet and storyteller Levi The Poet with a deeply moving plea. This performance carries a frequency of Love in vulnerability, and truth-telling, that evokes awe in me. Which line lingers in you?
Core State Meditation: Holy/Hurt Podcast
This lovely meditation by Dr. Hillary McBride invites us to visit this place John O’Donohue wrote about in the quote above.
You’re On Your Own, But Not Alone
Spirituality is not a side project. It’s about opening more deeply to our life (over time) and holding on for the ride.
Being Human: Beautiful and Ominous
Coming home to our bodies is about recognizing we are complex beings whose present-tense needs are worthy of time and care. These needs are not distractions, but rather, a portal to our deepest wisdom.
Please Come Home, a poem by Jane Hooper
Here’s a poem about coming home to ourselves, to inner wisdom — not as an end in itself, but as the place we perceive the ways we are interconnected.
Why trauma-informed spiritual direction?
What do I mean when I say “trauma-informed” spiritual direction?
Sorrow & Joy
A playlist for days we are holding the paradox of Sorrow & Joy. Naming and feeling our own pain reminds of our connectedness to others, in sorrow and love.
Please Tell Me What To Do: The Gift of *Not* Receiving What I Thought I Wanted in Spiritual Direction
My spiritual director wouldn’t give in to my pleas for a narrow way. As I look back now, I see that in her wisdom, she resisted the human temptation to “fix” or “save” me.
The Gift of Presence, The Perils of Advice
The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed — to be seen, heard and companioned exactly as it is.” Parker Palmer