“Grief is just Anger” – Grief Myth
I always like to start by affirming a couple of basics of grief from the Grief Recovery Method®:
Grief is the normal and natural emotional response to a loss of any kind.
Grief is...
Love Inspired Spiritual Care for Individuals & Communities
Helping folks just like you discover and live into the abiding, loving presence of God in all of life – towards a greater wholeness and a deeper sense of connectedness to life. Coming alongside as you learn to recognize the sacred within all of life and to respond to the invitations of Spirit to co-create a life chock-full of meaning and significance.
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Grief & Loss - Healing Your Heart
A person's spirituality and relationship with God are uniquely intimate. Sometimes it can have its share of uncertainties, practical concerns, and nagging doubts. This doesn't make you unfaithful, just a human being living faith in real life.
A Spiritual Director accompanies you as you discern where you are at, to listen for invitations of the Spirit and respond to those invitations. A Spiritual director is an experienced resource and companion, who can provide reflective insight and help you identify practical steps forward (deeper) as you continue on into the things of God in a holistic way as a part of everyday real life.
Have you experienced a death, divorce, job loss, a health crisis or a romantic break up? Or perhaps you're experiencing heartache caused by any of the other 40 different kinds of loss. Regardless, the pain from experiencing a significant loss can be life-altering.
Many have never been taught how to navigate the grief they experience from loss, nor how to heal their emotional pain. Many of us have only been taught to avoid the pain with a variety cliche's - but they don't help
"Love is more original than sin."
About Michael
With 28 years of experience providing spiritual care and support to countless individuals and groups, Michael is passionate about helping folks connect with the God-who-loves in healthy, thoughtful and life-giving ways; helping them to experience this love in personally transforming ways.
A thoughtful mystic, an accidental activist, and soul friend to many, Michael helps people connect to life in more profound ways, by assisting them towards greater wholeness and deeper living; to discover purpose, create meaning, and recognize and respond to the sacred in all of life.
"All I do each day is sit on the riverbank handing out river water.
If I do this well, in time you will notice the river."
From our Blog
Playing with Scripture – Midrash
[Guest article by Jacob Rose]
The Jewish tradition of midrash offers something rich to the practice of scriptural interpretation that is too often forgone in the Christian traditio...
