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Grounding + Becoming
Our souls find their way to the art we need.
Words, music, images, and practices can help us move more deeply into our own experiences, longings, and deep knowing.
These collections are curated to guide and accompany you as you attune to your inner landscape and to Love. I’m scattering breadcrumbs from my journey and from wise teachers and mystics before and beside me. Consider this a trailhead, of sorts.
Follow the threads that draw you, and notice what stirs in your soul.
What I’m offering here is an unconventional collection of spiritual direction resources.
You’ll find tools I refer to often, practices to experiment with, readings, notes from me, playlists, and more. I’ve only begun to gather these; feel free to bookmark this page and return as you are drawn.
Love is all around us, friends. I think we sometimes miss it when it doesn’t come packaged the way we’ve come to expect.
If you see something in this collection you’d like to explore together in a spiritual direction session, I welcome that wholeheartedly.
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I Want to Make 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.
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.
Contemplative Curiosity: Teilhard de Chardin on Truth Setting the World Ablaze
What do you notice and wonder as you read this Pierre Teilhard de Chardin quote on the way truth spreads.
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?
This I Know: A Spacious Conversation about Inclusive Christianity
As Jim was shepherding his congregation on a path toward full inclusion, congregants asked if he could help them approach conversations with their loved ones about the biblical passages that are generally used for exclusion. Jim’s gentle and bold pastor’s heart draws me in to listen and learn.
What Will People Think?
Dr. Tim Seelig weaves his own captivating story into the wisdom he shares with us here about living and loving with courage.
Living Centered at the Intersection of Trauma & Spirituality
“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
Tapestry of Wisdom: Trauma, a curated collection
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.
Reconnecting to Inner Wisdom: A Deep Dive
Disconnection from our inner wisdom disrupts all of our connections — with Self, Spirit, others, and the earth. Trauma-Informed Spiritual Direction is a place to discover, recover, and cultivate our connection to this wisdom.
Tapestry of Wisdom: Prayer, a curated collection
As you follow the threads of wisdom in this post, and listen for resonance in your own soul, may you find comfort in this quote from George Bernanos, “The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.”
Tapestry of Wisdom: Enneagram, a curated collection
I have gathered a handful of my favorite resources on the Enneagram. They come from varied folks, each with their wisdom and point of view. My invitation is to follow the threads of wisdom and listen to what resonates with your soul.
Tapestry of Wisdom: Grief, a curated collection
Whether the grief that is most acute to us now is a lost loved one, a lost faith community, a lost dream, or a lost self-image we’ve been clinging to, attuning to our sense of it can help us bear witness to our experience.