By Adam Cross LMFT Discerning your vocation can feel overwhelming. Whether you’re thinking about marriage, priesthood, or religious life, it’s common to feel the pressure of getting it “right.” But here’s the good news: God isn’t trying to trick you. He’s not hiding your vocation like a secret code you have to crack. He wants…
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More Than We Can Think: Coming Home Through the Body
I want to begin with an esoteric but favorite quote of mine: “Experiencing is a myriad richness that exceeds any number of separated facets. We cannot think all that just was. We feel more than we can think, and we live more than we can feel. And if we enter into what we feel in…
The Cost—and Gift—of Incarnational Living
A Reflection on Embodied Healing As we’ve been exploring practices of embodied healing—slowing down, tending to the nervous system, honoring emotions and sensations—I want to begin introducing a word that gives deeper meaning and theological grounding to this healing journey: Incarnational. It’s a word rooted in the Latin incarnare—to make flesh. And central to our…
To Offer It Up… Or Give It Up
I’m going to say something that might rattle you: We are made to flourish—even on this side of eternity. Redemption begins now. Each time we pray the Our Father and say, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven,” we aren’t just hoping for Heaven as some far off,…
Grace in the Flesh: Why Healing Must Be Embodied
Introduction: The Limits of Talk Therapy What does it truly mean to heal? I hope by the end of this reflection, you’ll have a clearer, deeper answer to that question. As the intro title suggests, we’re exploring what psychotherapy can look like beyond the traditional “talk therapy” model. But before we begin, let me be…
The Lift
Have you ever heard the saying check on your strong friends? Sometimes we have friends in our lives who seem like they have it altogether and sometimes we have friends who are very clearly in need of our help and support. As Catholics, we are called to be the support for our strong and struggling…
The Stop-Fast
Take a look at the world around you, how much of it is moving, noisy, and simply keeping you busy? Noise and productivity are not altogether bad things, but this Lent God is calling you to consider giving up some of the noise and busy-ness of life. In its place, God is calling you to…
Steady As A Rock
Have you ever had one of those days where you are just overwhelmed with life? The reality is that we live in a stressful world (no surprise there), but Christ calls us to be not afraid. God has not called us to live in fear, but to lean into Him for real peace, strength, and…
Peace Overflow
If you take a look around it’s pretty easy to see that our world lacks peace and is in many ways broken. This reality can feel dark and hopeless at times, and yet Jesus tells us numerous times in the Gospels to be not afraid. He also calls us to not only live in peace,…
God in Your Lungs
Take a deep breath. What happens when you do? Your lungs fill with air, your body moves as you breathe, maybe you feel more calm. Every time you breathe, it is a reminder that God is breathing life into you. God is working in and through your physical body. You, as a physical being, are…
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