Home to me
A meditation on self-discovery and coming out to yourself.
Subject: Hi Dawn from X
This blog post contains details about sexual abuse in the Church and a lot of DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim Offender). If you are recovering from spiritual and/or sexual abuse, there is help.
Take care of yourself.
Motivation: Dialogues with my inner coach
My inner critic, who I call, “Coach”, always wants me to be the best I can be.
Enough: A birthday post
This life, the one I have now and have always had, is enough, even if it is all there is.
The “What Can You Give Up?” Trap
Asking an overwhelmed person, “What can you let go of?” will raise up one of two answers, 1) Nothing or 2) a list of small things that can possibly move around. If the answer is 2, then spending time in the spiritual life just becomes one more thing on the to-do list and, when something urgent comes up, has a high likelihood of being dropped and, eventually, forgotten.
A new ‘rithm: Depending less on Facebook
The past few years, I have had a love hate, mostly hate, relationship with Facebook. While it has kept me connected to people I love who are far away, it has also manipulated me and used my data to promote hate and violence with no concern, particularly, for the lives of young people. I’ve never …
Befriend your critical voice
Setting my critical voice apart and getting to know her in a compassionate way leads me to respond to her in a different way.
