by Peggy Flynn | Oct 31, 2023 | All, Dying and Dealth
On completion of this session the participant will: Have an increased awareness of the shift in demographics across the globe as various countries experience an increasing life span; Become aware of the challenges presented by an aging population: economics, housing,...
by Peggy Flynn | Aug 30, 2023 | Aging, All, Spiritual Direction
On completion of this course, the participant will be able to: Identify the major factors that affect the person in the evening of life both as an individual and as a member of a larger world; Employ an expanded vocabulary enabling one to think beyond stereotypes;...
by Peggy Flynn | Aug 30, 2023 | Aging, All, Spiritual Direction
Several times this past year when I mentioned Spirituality and Aging the discussion shifted to hospice care. At first, I was startled and confused. Had I missed some part of the conversation? A senior moment? Some kind of fugue state? But then I realized that many...
by Peggy Flynn | May 31, 2023 | Aging, All, Dying and Dealth
One of the most common topics of conversation around dying and death is what comes after. We can imagine that this kind of speculation goes back millennia, wherever humans gathered around someone who, in one moment, was there and, in the next moment, was gone. Gone...
by Peggy Flynn | May 31, 2023 | All, Dying and Dealth, Spiritual Direction
The metaphor of the butterfly is often used to illustrate the stages in the process of transformation: caterpillar→cocoon→butterfly. The caterpillar gets the signal somehow, someway, to begin to spin fiber around itself; creating a cocoon/chrysalis within which it...
by Peggy Flynn | Mar 28, 2023 | All, Spiritual Direction
It’s Lent—the six weeks leading up to a remembering of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. I was at Mass at a local Catholic church and found myself seeing something familiar in a whole new way. Most Catholic churches have representations of the...
by Peggy Flynn | Mar 28, 2023 | All, Resources
Some weeks ago, spiritual direction colleagues and I were talking about the use and value of personality assessment tools in the spiritual direction encounter. Thinking about it since then—I can see the use and the value. Crucial to note that the person coming...
by admin2018 | Jan 30, 2023 | All
The New Year almost always opens the floodgates to resolutions. Home. Workplace. Spirit. Health. I am no exception. For example, I crafted this glorious schedule for the website: 2 blogs a month, one Thought Leader, and a newsletter. Yet here I am as the end of...
by Peggy Flynn | Jan 30, 2023 | Aging, All, Dying and Dealth
Carl Jung compared the unfolding of a human life to the course of a day. As surely as the morning moves into afternoon and then becomes the evening, each life progresses through stages. What can go wrong? “Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the...
by Peggy Flynn | Nov 30, 2022 | Aging, All
It is important to have a day dedicated to saying Thank You. Of course, as with Mother’s Day, the project can devolve into a commercial, saccharine mockery. My inbox is full of Thanksgiving reflections–many of which are profound, others not so much. Is there...