Season 1
June 14, 2021
Ep 21 The Sacred Space Inside Today
Send us a text Today we are talking about the idea of “thin places” – the places where the veil between heaven and Earth lifts. Join us as we consider where those places are that feel set apart and separate. Wonder with us as...
June 7, 2021
Ep 20 AA Meets Contemplative Spirituality
Send us a text Today we are talking with Ken, Spiritual Companion and member of numerous contemplative communities. Ken talks to us in this episode about practices that have been meaningful to him, why being powerless turns out to be a good thing, and what some of his favorite connections are betwe…
May 31, 2021
Ep 19 Spiritual Independence
Send us a text Today we’re talking about Spiritual Independence. If we know this term, we may well identify by any number of names: Spiritual but not Religious, Spiritually Eclectic, Spiritually Fluid, Disaffiliated, Nones…But whatever we call ourselves and however we found ourselves here, many of …
May 24, 2021
Ep 18 Creating New Mindsets
Send us a text Today we’re talking about using the Contemplative lens to create new mindsets. And in particular, we start with some questions: What does it look like to renew our minds and take thoughts captive? How do we manage to allow our minds to think on things that are noble, excellent and pr…
May 17, 2021
Ep 17 Beauty in the Ordinary
Send us a text Today we want to talk about life in the ordinary and about finding God in the more average parts of our days and lives. What can we find to sustain us? Where can something very usual become more extraordinary to us? Join us as we talk about returning to wonder, about slowing down to …
May 10, 2021
Ep 16 Toxic Positivity
Send us a text Toxic Positivity is the belief that no matter how difficult the situation, that one should always maintain a positive mindset. It’s culturally normal for us to share our positive emotions, but what about the negative ones? Many of us have believed that if we just ignore the emotion, …
May 3, 2021
Ep 15 Finding God in Your Longing
Send us a text Today we’re offering an example of what one might experience during a Spiritual Direction session. In this particular session, Kristina is bringing a dream to Chris. “I felt discombobulated…I was trying to get somewhere.” …”I’m in a time of figuring things out. What does life look li…
April 26, 2021
Ep 14 Awakening Our Souls through Spiritual Companionship
Send us a text Today we are talking with Marcia Bentley, Spiritual Companion and Supervisor for Spiritual Companions. What is Spirituality? What is the value of Spiritual Companioning? It turns out that great awakening is possible in our lives as we gain the ability to listen with our hearts, our m…
April 19, 2021
Ep 13 Fear: Choosing Action over Reaction
Send us a text Fear, whether it comes from imagined circumstances or real ones, is something we all find ourselves having to deal with. If our goal is to be able to choose action over reaction, what can help us achieve that goal? In this episode, each of us shares ways in which we’ve identified fea…
April 12, 2021
Ep 12 Beyond Body Shame
Send us a text Today we’re talking about how the Contemplative can helps us respond to the signals coming from our bodies without all the shame. Most of us know the feeling all too well – that comment that so embarrassed us, expectations that we hold of ourselves, pressures we feel in society... Th…
April 5, 2021
Ep 11 Embodied Spirituality
Send us a text Today we are talking with Mary Reynolds, certified Spiritual Companion and Yoga Instructor in the Boston area. What are some of the similarities and differences between Mindfulness and Contemplative Spirituality? Why do we sometimes shy away from Spirituality that includes our bodies…
March 29, 2021
Ep 10 Why We Need Companions
Send us a text Many of us can sense at various times in our lives that we need help – relationship – even more than that – companionship. But we also feel stuck. We don’t have anything set up and developing anything meaningful feels hard, maybe even too hard. In this episode, we find that the strug…
March 21, 2021
Ep 9 Contemplative Inspired Parenting
Send us a text In this episode, we talk about how the contemplative life informs our parenting. But! Even if we don’t have children, relationships are relationships! Each person in the world has agency – freedom of choice, freedom to think. And how our agency interacts with others can sometimes be …
March 15, 2021
Ep 8 Masculine/Feminine Energies in Spiritual Companionship
Send us a text Today we are talking with Steve Spilde, Associate Director and Spiritual Director at the Franciscan Spirituality Center in La Crosse, WI. What is it about vulnerability that is just so amazingly hard and what makes vulnerability so special anyway? No doubt, we’ve probably all been a …
March 9, 2021
Ep 7: Spiritual Triggers
Send us a text What can help us when words and experiences make us feel isolated, shut down, and less than? In this episode, we contemplate the struggle that comes along with triggering words and situations. We explore the cause and effect nature of these things, visiting a number of great thinkers…
March 1, 2021
Ep 6 Spiritual, Yes. Religious, No.
Send us a text If church doesn’t work for us, what does it look like to grow in our spiritual awareness? Join us as we reflect on the spiritual self. Each of our lives holds meaning and purpose. But many of us struggle to unpack what that is exactly. In this episode, we consider the pathways availa…
Feb. 16, 2021
Ep 5 Starbucks, Spotify & The Contemplative
Send us a text How do we go beyond a one-size-fits-all approach to faith? In this episode, we talk about the joys of discovering why we love the things we love and how we uncover the rhythms that can help us feel spiritually nourished. We also explore the benefits of stepping out of our everyday rh…
Jan. 25, 2021
Ep. 1 Moving Past Spiritual Boredom
Send us a text What if dissonances we feel around our spiritual practices are trying to tell us something? At one point or another, most of us probably find that some of our usual faith practices just aren't helping us connect anymore. In this episode, we talk about both the spiritual practices we'…