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What Happens in Spiritual Direction?
What is spiritual direction? What happens in a spiritual direction session? Is spiritual direction Catholic? How is spiritual direction...

Rachel Parsons
Dec 10, 20245 min read


Nonreligious Thoughts on Hope
Content warning: mental illness, religious upbringing, hopelessness When I was in the thick of my religious upbringing, I remember feeling very apathetic about hope. It felt like a "pie in the sky" carrot dangled in front of me; a cheap response to the problem of suffering. I felt like the god of my Evangelical Protestant education was saying, "I know I hold all of the cards, and I could either fix everything now or show you the grand plan that will make all of the universe's

Rachel Parsons
Mar 19, 20245 min read


How to Create Sacred Space
How do you create sacred space? What is a sacred space? Sacred spaces are some of the clearest examples we have of humanity’s active...

Caroline Crook
Feb 18, 20216 min read


Spirituality, Meaning, & the Meaning of Spirituality
What even is spirituality? Rachel asks that very question in one of this blog’s first posts, and gives her answer there too. It’s one of...

Brayte Singletary
Sep 14, 202014 min read


Episode 4: Spiritual Direction and Finding Meaning
In the pursuit of meaning, is Spiritual Direction a helpful avenue? Three Denver Area Spiritual Directors look at how Spiritual Direction...

Rachel Parsons
Jun 10, 20191 min read


Episode 3: Who is Spiritual Direction For?
What is Spiritual Direction? Who is it for, and what does it do? We’re 4 Denver Area Spiritual Directors with a passion to educate on...

Rachel Parsons
Mar 25, 20191 min read


Episode 2: What does Spiritual Direction DO?
What is Spiritual Direction? Who is it for, and what does it do? We’re 4 Denver Area Spiritual Directors with a passion to educate on...

Rachel Parsons
Mar 5, 20191 min read


Episode 1: What is Spiritual Direction?
What is Spiritual Direction? Who is it for, and what does it do? We’re 4 Denver Area Spiritual Directors with a passion to educate on...

Rachel Parsons
Feb 22, 20191 min read


Body Scan Meditation and the Sacred
The year was...2016. I was working three part-time jobs: cramming my feet into high heels on the way to hospice chaplain visits and...

Rachel Parsons
Jan 28, 20193 min read


What Even is “Spirituality”?
Yadav was born and raised in Tamil Nadu, India. He had a Hindu upbringing, but when he moved to the United States to study he started to...

Rachel Parsons
Oct 23, 20183 min read


Bossing Rocks Around
On a crisp October evening in Golden Gate Canyon State Park, my then boyfriend and I found ourselves skirting along an ever-darkening...

Rachel Parsons
Oct 2, 20183 min read
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