Tending Hope: Spiritual Practices for Apocalypse

There is an ancient tradition in the land of my ancestors of tending sacred flames (including the home hearth). This isn’t a unique practice to be sure, many

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Tarot for Your Spiritual Journey

Tarot is one of those tools that no one is neutral on. There are those who think it is a tool of demon worship, or at best superstition,

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Spiritual Bypassing & The Lie of Ease

There is a persistent falsehood being preached in the new age spiritual community. It isn’t a new lie. Christianity has its own version of it. Maybe it is

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What is Spiritual Direction?

There are two questions I get most often as a spiritual director: What is it spiritual direction, anyway? And, isn’t it just someone telling you what to believe,

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Embodied Awareness

As I write this we are slipping further into fall, down the seasonal slope into winter. The trees are dropping leaves, I definitely want the wool sweater in

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Breathwork Techniques

If you have been following me at all you probably know I teach breathwork meditation (the least helpful name for a practice ever because of its vagueness, at

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Make Your Spiritual Practice Your Own

A few months ago I got my first sourdough starter. I am rather late to the sourdough game, it just always seemed like too much work to me.

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Web of Gifting

The web of gifting was a term I was introduced to by Robin Wall Kimmerer in her book, Braiding Sweetgrass. It is a concept from Native American traditions

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Gardening As Spiritual Practice

I’ve had friends say that I could turn anything into a spiritual practice, which might or might not have been meant as the compliment I took it as.

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Practice: Connecting to Place

How well do you know the ground beneath your feet?  From the time I was 2 until I was 18 I lived in the same house on two

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