There’s a communal nature to wisdom. Our journeys overlap — sometimes in physical life, and sometimes outside of it — words and presence across time and space.

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.

Truth has only to appear once in one single mind for it to be impossible for anything to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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?

“You’re able to begin to notice that God speaks to us, God comes to us in our experience, that God becomes known; God becomes flesh in our everyday experience.” - Jonathan Merritt

These are some of the threads I’ve been following related to the topic of trauma. May curiosity and resonance be your guides as you explore this collection.

When someone sees and welcomes us with lovingkindness consistently, it makes space for us to see and welcome ourselves. 

“Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.” Follow the threads that call you and listen for what is stirred with you.

Off-the-beaten-path threads of spiritual wisdom woven into a tapestry of wisdom on grief. Whether we are grieving the loss of a loved one, a faith community, a dream, or a self-image, in attuning to our felt sense granularly, we bear witness.

I was in a minor car accident a couple of weeks ago. Though not badly hurt, I received a prescription for brain rest. My doctor also suggested bundling up and going outside to be among the trees and birds. Nature as medicine.

If you’re weary of trying harder, trauma therapist Aundi Kolber suggests an alternative— trying softer.