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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Making Everything I’ve Received Flow Again
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.
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.
Staying Present to Absence: Listening for Wisdom Through the Lens of The Holiday
Like Amanda and Graham in The Holiday, I’m meeting this next moment with a heart as open as I can muster, taking a step into the unfamiliar.
Living the Questions: A Wisdom Collage
For much of my life, I sought answers before I began walking. I'm finding practices that support me in living into the questions.
Contemplative Curiosity: Neil Theise on Complexity
A 10-ish minute spiritual practice -- bringing curiosity to a quote on complexity by Dr. Neil Theise.
I Think I Get It Now
At the sudden realization of my error, my heart sinks; my face burns hot and red.
A Letter to Christian Parents: The Only Thing That Matters Tonight is Presence
A tender letter for Christian parents navigating fear, faith, and love when a child comes out as gay. Reflections on presence, moral injury, and flourishing together.
Holding Space + Savoring
I’m holding space for our tender hearts, heavy with tensions and contradictions, the places we feel unseen and in between.
Can you still reach your stubborn hope?
You can't see beyond the next step, but you know what it feels like to let go. It’s time to sense into that 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.
The Places That Shape Us: A Guided Reflection
A guided reflection on the places we've loved and how they shape us. I share my own story of a labyrinth, then invite you to explore a place that still lives in you.
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?
Teachers + Thresholds
The teachers who have shaped me invited me — whether explicitly or in the way they uniquely inhabited their life and calling — to engage with my soul.
Coming Home: Finding Fluency in My Inner Landscape
Finding fluency in my nervous system’s signals doesn’t mean life is easy or that I’m perfect, it means that I am learning. The learning has happened little by little in the tiniest of increments that I’ve savored the heck out of.
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.
Relax Your Eyes: A Spiritual Director on Falling Through Fear Into Love
I awoke from a dream two years ago with a playful image, a new way of orienting to my faith: Magic Eye Art.
Why I BeReal
Every single day,
a call to connection arrives on my phone.
The task is simple —
take a selfie
and then hold still
for one more photo —
the view from
where I am.
Is There A Place?
Love is always a flow. How do we hold these powerful forces with care? Is there a place one can go to say "I'm on fire..."