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  • Relief Isn’t Always Healing

    Sometimes the way we think about healing is the very thing keeping us from it. A reflection on spiritual bypassing, the difference between relief and real healing, and what it looks like to finally witness our own pain.

    June 18, 2026

  • The Pirate in the Mirror: What Backrooms Knows About the Rooms We’re Afraid to Enter

    I watched Backrooms on vacation and couldn’t stop thinking about one image — a giant in a pirate costume, his face twisted in absolute misery. I recognized that look. I’d seen it in my own mirror. What this film knows about the rooms we’re afraid to enter might surprise you.

    June 11, 2026

  • Finding Hope Amidst Chaos: A Personal Journey

    It is I Who Must BeginIt is I who must begin.Once I begin, once I try –here and now,right where I am,not excusing myselfby saying thingswould be easier elsewhere,without grand speeches andostentatious gestures,but all the more persistently–to live in harmonywith the “voice of Being,” as Iunderstand it within myself–as soon as I begin that,I suddenly…

    June 10, 2026

  • Whose Dream Are You Living? Finding Meaning in Your Work Starts With Slowing Down

    A veteran’s eyes stopped me mid-scroll. What I saw in them I had seen in myself — and in the mother, the churchgoer, the exhausted graduate, and the young person submitting hundreds of job applications into silence. Performance culture isn’t just burning us out. It’s handing us someone else’s dream and calling it our own.…

    May 29, 2026

  • The Lure and the Magnet: Why You Keep Getting Pulled Toward the Wrong Rooms

    Sometimes we get lost trying to find our way home. If you’ve ever walked away from a community wondering what was wrong with you — this is for you. There is nothing wrong with you. You’re just someone who was paying close attention.

    May 8, 2026

  • My Faith Wounding Is Not Intended to Harm You

    If I had a physical injury — like walking with a limp after a serious car accident — you might understand my faith wounding differently. My story isn’t about threatening your faith. It’s about working through what happened to me.

    May 3, 2026

  • You Were Not Lucky. You Were Lost.

    Before I ever walked into a church, I was already carrying something. A loss that happened before language. Before memory. Before I had a single word for any of it. This is the story of what that loss made me believe — and what I am finally learning to let go.

    April 30, 2026

  • What Is Real Safety — And How Do You Find It?

    Safety isn’t the absence of danger. It’s the presence of something. Learn how to recognize real safety in your body, test for it in relationships, and begin rebuilding trust with yourself — one small step at a time.

    April 25, 2026

  • Overcoming Religious Trauma: The Theology of Self-Trust

    Self-distrust doesn’t arrive all at once. It gets installed — quietly, systematically, by systems that need you not to trust yourself in order to keep you close.

    April 17, 2026

  • When Appeasement Becomes a Way of Life

    I didn’t have words for what happened to me for a long time. Laura Anderson’s Religious Power and Control Wheel gave me a map. Here I walk through each category — and share what I lived inside each one.

    April 13, 2026
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