What Exactly Happens in the Chrysalis
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...
Stations of the Cross
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...
Tools for Self-knowledge
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...
A New Year’s Resolution I’m Determined to Keep aka Wrestling with the Mastiff
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...
How to Talk About the Evening of Life and not Drive People Out the Door?
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...The Book
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