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When Wild Spirit Storytelling and Pain Collide

Body TheologyJuly 7, 202621Views 0Likes 0Comments

In the Arrow Sutra, the Buddha talked about two arrows. The first arrow which pierces you contains any number of the unavoidable difficulties in life. This could be chronic pain, which I'll be talking about today, or stress, or grief. Life is suffering, the Buddha tells us, and what causes suffering is attachment, which brings…

When the Body Doesn’t Feel Sacred

Body TheologyJune 23, 202646Views 0Likes 0Comments

This blog is going to go out to everyone who has a chronic illness, or a disability, or a food allergy, body dysphoria, or even just burnout out and exhausted. Your body is sacred. I'm going to get a little academic here for a moment and mention that I'm using the more secular definitions of…

Meditation, Concentration, and the Neurodivergent Mind

Body Theology, neurodivergentMay 26, 202689Views 0Likes 0Comments

Meditation has been my go to in order to help regulate my nervous system and calm my overactive, neurodivergent mind. I'm not talking about spending hours sitting in lotus pose or repeating a mantra, but rather a tool that I can return to maybe for fifteen minutes at most, to bring me back to center…

Why it’s important someone like me is speaking about yoga, chronic illness, and disability

Body Theology, Chronic Illness, Disability, embodied being, my philosophyMay 1, 2026148Views 0Likes 0Comments

CW: This blog discusses fatphobia, body dysphoria, and representation. I've been doing a lot of website updates lately and am thinking about the yoga videos I had over on Chicken Yogi, the predecessor to this site, and moving them over. I've also been thinking about holding meditation and yoga gatherings at least once a month…

Why Am I Talking About Grief?

Body TheologyFebruary 10, 2026188Views 0Likes 0Comments

There's been a shift in what I talk about on this blog, and first off, I want to reassure that I will still be talking about spiritual storytelling, and that is my focus. But there's one thing I realize both as I go through my own spiritual care, but also help others is that grief…

Grief In The Body

Body TheologyJanuary 27, 2026263Views 0Likes 0Comments

Note: This will be the first of likely many blogs about dealing with the physical sensations of grief. This initial blog is an overview. It's a kind of tiredness that's experienced in body, mind, and soul. The weight of it presses onto your shoulders. Your body aches. Your heart aches. And it feels like it…

Spiritual Care is Person-Centered Care

Body Theology, Spiritual CareJanuary 16, 2026184Views 0Likes 0Comments

One of the main foundational points of body theology is that we are whole and complete as we are and that our bodies are divine. It's a way of thinking about the body and of the self that is rooted in radical acceptance and liberation theories. The medical field calls it person-centered care, though they…

Radical Body Acceptance

Body TheologyDecember 30, 2025237Views 0Likes 0Comments

Potential CW: This post discusses body acceptance in light of gender and body dysphoria and includes discussions of body size in relation to myself. I want to preface this post by stating that this is simply my experience and my own thoughts. Each individual, especially those who are experiencing body or gender dysphoria, need to…

How Animal Companions Help Us Connect To Our Bodies

Body TheologyDecember 16, 2025282Views 0Likes 0Comments

Three times I day I bend at the waist, step through the gate, and enter the horse pasture because I don't want to open and deal with the heavy 16' long iron gate. (My kingdom for a walk-through gate!) My destination is each of the gates, and maybe depending on the time of day, the…

Body Awareness and Yoga Nidra

Body TheologyDecember 8, 2025254Views 0Likes 0Comments

When our nervous system is unreglated, often we are disconnected from our body, even though we may experience physical symptoms. For those who are neurodivergent, something that often comes up is that we lack perioperception or the ability to notice where our body is in space. That's why, anecdotally, a lot of those of us…

Personal Gnosis In Our Bodies

Body TheologyNovember 12, 2025270Views 0Likes 0Comments

I'm getting ready to defend my thesis on Friday and one of the core aspects of it is personal gnosis, commonly called unverified personal gnosis or UPG. Gnosis comes from a Greek noun which means knowledge, and if you search the definition the Oxford dictionary (as listed by Google) gives an even more detailed definition…

Being Embodied Means Moving The Body

Body TheologyJuly 30, 2025383Views 0Likes 0Comments

As embodied beings we need a few things to survive. Food and water are the two that come to mind, and shelter ranks high on the list. But we also need to take care of our physical body, and part of that involves being aware of it. You might be wondering just how we can…

What Does Healing Look Like?

Body Theology, Healing, my philosophyJuly 23, 2025314Views 0Likes 0Comments

It's not a secret I have a difficult relationship with the word "healing". In our modern society healing seems to be a "one and done" situation. You get sick, you take medicine, and though it may take a while to recover depending on the severity of the illness and the treatment proscribed generally if someone…

Finding the Sacred In A Painful Body

Body TheologyJuly 2, 2025254Views 0Likes 0Comments

July is Disability Pride Month and so for this month I will be talking about spirituality, sacredness, and our relationship to the divine in a body that's both socially, medically, and through the minority group model disabled. In short, there are multiple models of disability, and what this means is that people are disabled through…

Can Sick Bodies Be Divine?

Body Theology, Chronic Illness, DisabilityJune 18, 2025303Views 0Likes 0Comments

I'm almost 30 pages into my thesis talking about disability liberation, so allow me to indulge myself a bit by blogging about not just a topic I'm extremely interested in, but also one that impacts me personally. Today is an especially rough flare day for my chronic illness/disability. Honestly, with this wild weather we've been…

Sacred Bodies and Gendering/Ungendering

Body TheologyJune 11, 2025365Views 0Likes 0Comments

Body theology is just one aspect of embodied theology, but it makes the most salient point: that our bodies are not "fallen" or "sinful" or something dirty to be left behind. Instead, body theology states that our bodies are sacred. Depending on your religious or spiritual traditions (or paths), the body could be the manifestation…