Mental Health Boundaries from a Recovering One-Year Pastor
I knew I had made a mistake as I sat in a COVID-distanced circle with my district superintendent and the five people I trusted most in my church to discuss […]
Trauma Informed Approaches to Pastoral Care (Interview With The Rev. Kerri Erbig)
As an Episcopal priest who has spent her entire career working full-time in psychiatric or medical hospital settings, I often find it difficult to translate my experiences and knowledge of […]
How is Self-Care Different from Soul Care?
If you feel like your feed is infiltrated with reminders about the importance of self-care, you are not alone. The $1.5 trillion self-care industry is expansive and pervasive in its […]
The Work of Real Self-Care: Holding Pain and Hope Together
“The work of real self-care is to hold pain and hope together.” -Pooja Lakshmin Back in December at a pastors’ gathering, my local denominational body used a polling app to […]
Mindfulness and Ministry: Cognitive Based Compassion Training
I’m re-doing my CPE. That’s right. I did it already: not just one unit, but four, and now I’m doing it again. That story will be told in a separate […]
The Heroine’s Journey, Part Eight: Heroine Heals the Mother/Daughter Split
This devotional is the eighth installment in what will be a series of ten exploring the kinship between the Heroine’s Journey as established by Maureen Murdock, my lived experience of […]
The Heroine’s Journey, Part Seven: Heroine Urgently Yearns to Reconnect with the Feminine
This post is the seventh in what will be a series of ten exploring the kinship between the Heroine’s Journey as established by Maureen Murdock, my lived experience of ministry […]
The Heroine’s Journey, Part Six: Initiation Crisis and Descent to the Goddess
This post is the sixth in what is a series of ten exploring the kinship between the Heroine’s Journey as established by Maureen Murdock, my lived experience of ministry as […]
Reflections on Incarnation in this Season of Advent
The familiar faces of my parishioners occupy the screen before me as I sit on my zafu, a cushion Buddhists often use while doing a seated meditation called Zazen. I […]
The Heroine’s Journey, Part Five: The Heroine Awakens to Feelings of Spiritual Aridity
We have reached the halfway point in what will be a series of ten exploring the kinship between the Heroine’s Journey as established by Maureen Murdock, my lived experience of […]
