Soul, Psyche, and Spirit: How Transformation Actually Unfolds
Spiritual transformation is rarely a linear ascent toward light and clarity. More often, it unfolds through cycles of unknowing, resistance, descent, and reorientation — movements that unsettle the ego’s familiar sense of self and disturb long-held inner arrangements. For those living through such seasons, this can feel confusing or even frightening. What once seemed stable may no longer hold. Practices that once brought nourishment may feel dry or inaccessible. There may be
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.
Spiritual Life and the Body
Long before we have language for God, we have breath. Our spiritual life does not unfold outside our humanity, but within it. This piece reflects on the body as the place of encounter — where healing and holiness quietly meet.
A Feather on the Breath of God: The Spiritual Art of Fluttering
What might it mean to live like a feather on the breath of God — not without direction or agency, but receptive to a life larger than our own intentions? An exploration of the spiritual art of being moved, through the images of feather, willow leaf, wind and flute.
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.
The Director’s Inner Work: Why It Matters
A mandala of wholeness — a reminder that the director’s inner work shapes the space in which others are invited to unfold. Spiritual direction is often described as a ministry of listening, discernment, and accompaniment. Much attention is rightly given to the skills required for this work: attentive presence, theological grounding, prayerful awareness, and an understanding of spiritual traditions and practices. Yet beneath all of this lies something more fundamental and less
Dreams, the Unconscious, and Spiritual Maturity
Dreams often arrive at moments when something within us is shifting. We wake with an image that lingers, a feeling that does not easily fade, or a story that seems to hover at the edge of understanding, asking not to be solved but to be noticed. They tend to surface not when life feels settled and clear, but when we are unsettled — when prayer has grown dry, when a long-held certainty begins to loosen, when we feel inwardly stuck, conflicted, or quietly disturbed without know
Working with our Dreams in the Spiritual Life Part III
Dreams often linger with us long after we have woken, carrying questions, images, or emotions that do not easily resolve. In this final article in the series, I turn toward how we might respond to what a dream reveals and allow it to shape us over time. Responding to the Dream When a dream has been lived with prayerfully — recorded, explored, and allowed to speak — we often arrive at a quiet sense that something has been revealed. This knowing is rarely dramatic. More often
Jungian Psychology and Spiritual Direction
Jungian spiritual direction aims to help individuals deepen their connection with their inner selves and the divine by exploring the unconscious and embracing the wholeness of their psyche (soul).
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.
