The Healing Circle
When did you last experience an Advent that truly felt like waiting? Not like to-do lists, gift stress and holiday parties, but like that quiet, expectant pause the word “Advent” is meant to hold. Advent comes from the Latin adventus, meaning arrival. It is a season for getting ready – not just our homes, but…
My child, that is truly a deceptive truth. For I ask you: Who is responsible for the suffering in your world? Is it I who torments people, animals, children, the elderly, women, men? Or is it man who tortures his fellow man, murders, commits violence, and speaks words full of hatred and slander? Now you…
Read enough near-death experience accounts and you almost always arrive at the same point: an encounter with something larger than oneself. Some call it God, some a light, some simply “love” or “the universe.” What stands out in these accounts isn’t so much the name people give it, but how similar the quality of that…
There’s a moment many people of faith know but rarely say out loud: you pray, and it feels like your voice is hitting a wall. No comfort, no sign, no sense of closeness — just silence that grows louder the more desperate you become. And with that silence often comes a second layer of pain:…
As the days grow shorter, something shifts in us that we tend to explain away. “It’s just the weather.” “I’m tired because the clocks changed.” We rationalize autumn instead of actually feeling it. But what happens to us in fall is far more than a passing mood — it’s an honest response from your body…
Positive near-death experiences get a lot of attention: light, peace, a feeling of unconditional love. What comes up far less often are the other kind — the ones in which people describe fear, emptiness, threat, or despair. These so-called negative or distressing near-death experiences are less documented, not because they’re rare, but because many people…
You’ve finally carved out a quiet afternoon. No appointments, no demands, just you. And then—instead of relaxation—this strange, uncomfortable tingling. Your thoughts start racing. You get up, tidy something, check your phone, even though you knew this was supposed to be your break. If this sounds familiar: you’re not ungrateful, and you’re not “bad at…
Few spiritual topics have gained as much traction in recent years as working with “ancestral trauma.” On social media, the claim is that you’re carrying your grandmother’s unresolved pain in your cells, that your chronic stress is really “your great-grandparents’ trauma,” and that with the right ritual you can “heal the ancestral line” — for…