What’s the big deal about gratitude? In this post I’ll share what a gratitude practice is, why it’s important, and how to begin one (plus some techniques for the advanced practitioner)! Recently I’ve seen a lot of posts about gratitude
I’ve been thinking a lot about the balance between darkness and light, a.k.a. chaos and order. It’s the tension between authoritarianism and democracy. In a dictatorship, everything can be run perfectly. Things are streamlined because one person is calling the
When I first got pregnant this time, the first thing I googled was “spiritual mama.” I thought for sure this was a thing, but clearly I was wrong. Pregnancy isn’t usually the first thing people think of when they think
Is it better to be selfish or selfless? Or maybe this is just some bullshit false duality that we need to throw out. I’m going with the third choice. But let’s unpack this weird idea, and how some of us
Recently I had an unusual lesson in being authentically me. This past week I went to Green Lake, Wisconsin for a Baptist-Muslim Dialog Conference. It’s probably not the kind of place you’d expect to find an intuitive present – certainly
I’ve decided recently that I want to say yes to things. Saying yes feels good. It feels expansive. I smile more when I say yes. It’s exciting to say yes. When I say no, I find myself tightening. It feels
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Most of us have wondered at some point in our lives, what am I doing here? What’s the point of being? Why do we humans exist at all? And we come up with all kinds of partial answers to these
You may have noticed I’ve been a bit MIA recently. That’s because I stopped doing more or less… everything. In fact, in the last month I found myself floundering. Or a better word, I felt stagnant. Stagnant is not a
Recently I’ve been getting a lot of questions about developing spiritual gifts. I’m going to share a bit about how to turn them on, how you can develop them, and why you might want to. But before I say anything
In December 2017, I saw my spiritual self for the first time – what I look like to other beings on the spiritual plane. It was striking – really striking. The only word that could describe what I saw was
