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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Recognition: An Invitation to Now
Gratitude surges as I realize the only word my lips remember is the only key that unlocks this door.
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
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?
In trauma-informed spiritual direction, we seek to recover and deepen a direct connection with wisdom.
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