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Why Am I Talking About Grief?

Body TheologyFebruary 10, 202634Views 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, 202671Views 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, 202657Views 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, 202581Views 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, 2025108Views 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, 202599Views 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, 2025106Views 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, 2025259Views 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, 2025154Views 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, 2025134Views 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, 2025162Views 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, 2025199Views 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…

Let’s Talk Social Constructs

Body TheologyMay 21, 2025345Views 0Likes 0Comments

According to the Miriam Webster dictionary, a social construct is an idea that has been created and accepted by society. (reference) Gender, along with the accompanying commonly accepted gender roles are social constructs, ones that we may not have even realized we've been socialized into until we start unpacking things. Social constructs are why our…

Theology of the Body Requires Getting To Know The Body

Body TheologyMay 14, 2025289Views 0Likes 0Comments

I joke quite a bit that we can blame Descartes for geometry (and math!), but I feel like there's something even larger than the trouble with math that we need to blame him for, and that's the modern concept of mind-body dualism. He wasn't the first to write about it, and in fact the idea…

The Body Is Divine

Body TheologyMay 7, 2025182Views 0Likes 0Comments

There's a theological term known as "Imago Dei" which is the Latin translation of Image of God. This term is often applied uniquely to humanity, rather than seeing the plant or animal kingdom as imago Dei, and refers to the fact that humans were made in the image of God. This term is most often…

Defining Body Theology

Body Theology, spiritualityMarch 19, 2025412Views 0Likes 0Comments

If you type the words "body theology" into a web search engine, you'll most likely come up with a statement made by Pope John Paul II. Certainly most of the results served to you will be related to this statement (or a book by James B. Nelson if you're lucky), and none of them will…