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Your Invitation to a Mass for Suicide Healing & Remembrance
Hello readers and rock ‘n’ roll fans! Many of us have a connection to someone who died by suicide and grieve for the loss of that loved one. That kind of grief is hard to walk around with alone, and hard to move on from without some kind of formal event of remembrance and healing.…
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The Love Ladder of Lived Experience
In the various recovery communities, there is an operating principle that a person with lived experience of the problem (e.g. addiction, abuse, trauma) is better able to understand, empathize, and guide other people with the same problem toward recovery. A person might think that this relates solely to an intellectual understanding of the experience of…
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A Free Guide for Your Forgiveness
Forgiveness can be deeply personal, complex, and meaningful. In this session from the Wellness in the Woods “Power of Hope” conference this year, I introduced participants to the REACH forgiveness process, a scientifically validated model that can be used individually or facilitated in groups. People who participated in my workshop learned about recent research on…
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How to forgive yourself
Do you like or want to feel good about your life? Do you have a hard time forgiving yourself? Answering “yes” to both of these is a real tough spot to find yourself in. Like everyone else, you wish for a good life. But you also have some things you feel bad about having done…
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How to Accept the Unacceptable So You Can Live Your Best Life
The biblical story of Job conveys to readers the importance of a deep and abiding trust in God’s attention and care for us. One section of the text, Job 1:21; 2:10b, especially offers an insight for managing our thoughts and feelings when something bad happens: We accept good things from God; and should we not…
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How to Hear the Tiny Sound of the Biggest Thing in Your Life
In the Catholic Church, we have readings from the Bible that are assigned each day for reading, reflection, and sharing. When you take all those assigned readings together across the span of a year, the whole thing is called the Liturgical Year. Today’s readings include a reading from 1 Kings 19:9a and 11-13a, and a…
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Shadows making it hard to see the good things in life? Here’s what to do…
The Things We Pray For All around the world, in every culture and religion, people ask for a lot of differen things that they think will help them. Over time, some prayers become popular as they become expressions of what a lot of people wish for in their lives. One of these prayers is the…
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How to Renew Your Mind
How do you start your day? Do you have a morning routine during which you set aside time just to set the tone or direction of the day for yourself? I will share with you that every morning I wake up and do some reading from the Bible and say some prayers. It is a…
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