Interior Navigation as a Spiritual Art
The inner life has its own contours, waiting to be patiently read. Many people today are sincerely committed to the spiritual life and yet feel oddly disoriented within it. They pray, reflect, seek guidance, and remain faithful to their path — and still struggle to know what to trust inside themselves. Inner signals feel confusing or unreliable. Feelings, images, doubts, or bodily responses are either over-spiritualised or quietly ignored. What is often missing is not devotio
Beyond the Small Self: Psychology, Kenosis and the Spiritual Journey
What does it really mean to go beyond the small self? Drawing on Karen Armstrong’s reflections on kenosis, this article explores how psychological depth, embodied experience and spiritual surrender can open us to something larger than ourselves.
Forgiveness and the Inner Life: A Psychospiritual Journey
Spiritual accompaniment is often one of the few places where people can bring the complexity of forgiveness without being rushed toward resolution.
Spiritual Maturity Is Not Emotional Niceness
There is a common and deeply ingrained assumption in many spiritual contexts that maturity is revealed through emotional smoothness: through being calm, agreeable, gentle, and untroubled.
Discernment Beyond Decision-Making: A Jungian Perspective
Many people come to discernment with a sincere desire to be faithful — and yet find themselves increasingly anxious, vigilant, or strangely disconnected from God in the process.
Growing Up and Waking Up: Psychology and the Spiritual Life
The invitation is to weave these two journeys together. Growing up helps bring tenderness to my own humanity, while waking up reminds me that my identity is larger than the struggles I face. Together, they invite a way of being that is both deeply human and gently transcendent.
Spiritual Bypassing: Discernment, Healing, and the Holding Presence of God
When our spiritual practice is not integrated with our psychological material, it can lead to shadow problems. We split ourselves in an unhelpful way that is not true to any path of wholeness or spiritual transformation.
Soul, Spirituality & Psychology
Soul is the most common translation of the Hebrew word nephesh and the Greek word psyche . The biblical meanings of these concepts are richly varied. In the Old Testament, for example, the meanings of nephesh range from life, the inner person (particularly thoughts, feelings and passions), to the whole person, including the body. Similarly, in the New Testament, psyche carries such meaning as the totality of the person, physical life, mind and heart. Here, soul is presente
Psychological Ways We Can Undermine Our Spiritual Transformation
On the spiritual path, we often assume that our deepest desire is for transformation — to become more open to God, more loving, more whole. Yet many people discover, sometimes with confusion or self-judgement, that alongside this longing there is also resistance. Change can feel unsettling, even threatening, to the familiar sense of who we are, and this tension is not a sign of spiritual failure but a deeply human reality. This reflection explores some of the psychological wa
Knowing God: Wholeness & Self-Knowledge
The spiritual journey has always been understood as a journey of transformation — not only of belief, but of the whole person. Across the Christian tradition, wisdom teachers have recognised that knowing God and knowing ourselves are inseparable movements of the same deepening process. This article reflects on how self-knowledge and wholeness belong at the heart of an authentic spiritual life. Wholeness, Self-Knowledge, and the Spiritual Life In our contemporary world, we und
