Spiritual Growth
This category contains creative writing about personal growth and spiritual practices, in articles, essays, fiction and poetry.
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How Do You Return to Normal After a Huge Loss
Is it ever Possible to Return to Normal? What is normal when life has delivered a significant blow - divorce, death, pandemic, or job loss?
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Five Ways You Can Find the Sacred in the Ordinary
This summary of five ways to find the sacred in the ordinary is offered as examples of an infinite resource for anyone thirsty for wisdom and insight. Holding…
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How To Begin Again When You Fail
"Always we begin again.” These are grounding words of St Benedict. Words that speak a gentle truth when we find ourselves up against a brick wall of failure.
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Five Ways to Stay Calm Without Losing Patience
Five ways to not lose your patience - 1. Slow down...2. Breathe...3. Make waiting a spiritual practice...4. Smile...5. go for a walk
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Learning to Sit Alone With Feelings
Learning to sit is a common Buddhist practice but for this author, the road to sitting was marked by an illness accompanied by cognitive loss that did not…
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Dekker, The Service Dog, Shares His Wisdom
Many people have asked me how Dekker ‘writes,’ sharing his wisdom every month in this blog. The only words that may seem legitimate from a dog are “Woof,…
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One Thing to Know if You Want to be Compassionate
Until I learn to be comfortable with my fear and pain, I will not hear the fear and pain behind another's defensive statements or responses, let alone respond…
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WHAT IS GOOD ABOUT FEELING VULNERABLE?
Vulnerability helps us open the door to new connections. If only for a moment, we let our guard down and engage with people on another level.
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WHAT IS THE SPIRITUAL WORK OF GRATITUDE?
Why gratitude is a spiritual practice in which we include both memorable events and things that are painful.
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3 WAYS TO FIND JOY IN THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE
Here are three ways to find joy when life seems to be crashing around you and you are in danger of losing hope.
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HOW TO ACCOMPLISH YOUR GOALS
Accomplishing goals is not only about to-do lists and calendars. Having the right mindset and slowing down are equally important.
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WHAT TO DO WHEN TERROR STRIKES
Trapped beneath a floating raft, terror builds for a swimmer who, moments before, was enjoying a summer afternoon swim.
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TAKING A TRIP THROUGH LIFE
How we navigate through life will change, but the reality that life is a journey to new places and new discoveries will remain.
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TIPS TO MAKE LEAVING EASIER
When it is time to leave it doesn't matter if it is a home, graduation, a relationship or a habit, leaving can be difficult. Here are some tips…
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SPIRITUAL, RELIGIOUS OR NEITHER?
Taking a look at spirituality and religion, the places they overlap, and the practices that support them.
