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…
As the temperatures are finally turning warmer after an extremely cold week this week and I can start to breathe a sigh of relief that I got myself, my spouse, the horses, chickens, pigs, (not to mention the cats including the two strays I trapped and have inside so they didn't have to brave below…
When I was going through my dark night of the soul after spiritual abuse, just thinking about spirituality didn't feel safe to me. The idea of contemplating spirituality, blogging about it, talking about it, being public with it in the ways I had been prior to the abuse (now over a dozen years ago), filled…
When the Right Rev. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde spoke this week, her words caused a lot of controversy in political circles, which I suppose is the point that I'm trying to make in talking about spirituality as separate from religion. For a lot of us, especially neurodivergent, queer, and/or disabled people, religion, specifically certain denominations…