Anxiety Help, Mindset, Rituals, Self Love, Spiritual Direction

It’s the Little Practices that Teach Us to Respond in Love

What daily practices do you use to start your day? When creating morning rituals, it helps to reflect on how each of these little habits are influencing your mindset. Can you feel the affects of them late in the day, in the week, or even the month? One of the morning habits that I just… Continue reading It’s the Little Practices that Teach Us to Respond in Love

Rituals

How Rituals of Making Wishes Create Attention to Intention

On my actual birthday, I didn't have a cake or singing or lighted candles. It somehow didn't feel like my birthday until I made that wish. It got me wondering how and why that tradition even began and why it was so important to me. Thinking back to the sayings I grew up with like:… Continue reading How Rituals of Making Wishes Create Attention to Intention

Rituals, Spiritual Direction

My Love-Hate Relationship With the Sacrament of Confession

This is the time of year for the Sacrament of Reconciliation in the Catholic Church. In Advent and Lent, people are encouraged to return to God and enter into a deeper, more intimate relationship. It is time to resolve whatever is blocking you from LOVE. I often dread going to Confession and keep putting it… Continue reading My Love-Hate Relationship With the Sacrament of Confession