Spiritual Direction
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Spiritual Direction for People Who’ve Left Religion
The word spiritual stops a lot of people before they get to the second word. If you have left a religion, you may have good reasons for that. The word carries freight. It can sound like a return to something you worked hard to leave, or a softer version of the same territory in more
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Therapy After Leaving the Two by Twos
By now, most people who have left the Two by Twos, or who are somewhere in the process of leaving, know the broad outlines of what happened. The documented abuse. The workers who harmed children and vulnerable adults over decades. The cover-up that protected perpetrators and left survivors alone with what had been done to
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Trembling Toward Wholeness
There are ways a person can leave a life long before they physically leave it. A faith may stop fitting years before it is spoken aloud. A body may begin carrying fear before the mind understands why. A person may continue performing certainty while something quieter inside has already started asking different questions. Often the
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Silence and the Inner Life
Silence is not automatically peaceful. Sometimes it first reveals what has long been waiting underneath.
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The Long Arc of Becoming
A human life is not a problem to solve completely. There are seasons for effort, seasons for waiting, and seasons for what emerges quietly beneath what once felt certain.
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The Wisdom of Not Knowing Yet
Not all wisdom arrives as certainty. Some of it arrives quietly, after a person has learned how to stay in conversation with what they do not yet fully understand.
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What Is Spiritual Direction, and How Is It Different from Therapy?
People often arrive asking some version of the same quiet question: What kind of support do I actually need right now?
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What Is Spiritual Emergence? When Growth Feels Like Crisis
Sometimes, our inner world changes more quickly than we can make sense of it. For many, this does not feel like personal growth. It feels like everything is falling apart.
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On Leaving a Tradition
Leaving a religious, spiritual, family, or cultural tradition can be deeply upsetting. For some people, it is not only upsetting. It can feel traumatic.