The Podcast

I want to take time each week to invite you in to listen to the podcast with the hopes that something in there will touch your heart or work your brain. The podcast is intended for anyone looking for daily spiritual encouragement and particularly for those in the 12 Steps seeking consistency in their daily

Bedrock

Remember to stay posted for the upcoming Grateful Blessed Mess Podcast! Listen to the sneak peak here! …. Now back to the blog. Have you ever been going through a painful time in your life, but for the life of you, you cannot figure out why? How you got here or why this particular thing

So, I’m Starting A Podcast

I’m starting a podcast, and to be completely honest, the closer I get to the actual launch date I have in mind, the more hesitant I start to become about the whole damned thing.  I am a person who loves things in theory. I like to contemplate the beauty and complexity of things that are

Refining The Phlegmatic In Me

Another post I wrote for Metanoia Catholic!! An especially vulnerable reflection from the heart. The scales fell from my eyes while I listened to this week’s latest episode of The Catholic Coaching Podcast. After taking Metanoia Catholic’s temperament assessment, I found out my main temperament is Melancholic. Off the bat I was able to recognize

No Man is an Island

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for man to be alone. Genesis 2:18 Walk with me here. I like my alone time. It allows me to recoup, reset, settle my mind and gives me the space to be creative, all of which bring my joy and peace. But underneath that quiet solitude

Snarls and Knots

We are body-soul composites. That being said, the physical world is much more in our face and therefore, for most of us, it is easier to notice and relate to. What I keep finding is how the realities of the physical world can also be applied to the realities of the spiritual world. Let me

Breadcrumbs

If you have been following along on my blog, you may have noticed mention of my being coached by various people along the way. I was so helped and changed by mindset coaching that over the last six months I became certified myself. After graduating they asked me to write something about my experience of

Hate Has No Home Here

“Let love be sincere; hate what is evil, hold on to what is good” Romans 12:9 “Hate has no home here.” Do you all remember the rise of this phrase in the not so distant past? The horrors that led to it and the signs placed in lawns across America? Hate. No Home. Here. “To

Fiat

“He that sacrifices to God his property by alms-deeds, his honor by bearing insults, or his body by mortifications, by fasts and penitential rigours, offers to Him a part of himself and of what belongs to him; but he that sacrifices to God his will, by obedience, gives to Him all that he has, and

The Beautiful Back and Forth

There is something about breath that is extremely spiritual. Breath means life. Breath means hope… I think it is so interesting that breathing happens all on its own and yet it is something we can also choose to control. It is in how we do this that we can use it well or use it