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Resilience can be defined as the ability to recover quickly from an illness or set back, recover strength  or the ability to remain centered and able to cope with change and uncertainty The great [...]

“I learned that different meant many things: freedom, oppression, celebration, sadness, responsibility, hiding, protesting, sharing, but most of all being true to one’s self no matter the price.” [...]

Shared as part of a memorial service at Niagara-On-The-Lake, June 17, 2023 Today we gather as a community of mourners, each of us drawn here by a common thread as we seek to remember and honor [...]

We often spend much of our time thinking about the future, or the past.  As a result, we miss the experience of being here now, or being present.  Richard Rohr describes the importance of [...]

There has been much focus over the past several years on the practice of gratitude and how it can positively influence our emotional and mental health.  A recent study (Brown and Wong, 2017) [...]

Parker Palmer, the author of “The Courage to Teach” writes about the importance of listening for the voice of inner vocation.  Sometimes referred to as a “calling” this [...]

St. Ignatius taught a method called the examen to his students that was focused on discernment , or gaining insight into which activities were life giving and which were draining.  Although [...]

Are your health habits supporting your inner resilience or hindering it?  Resilience can be thought of as our ability to thrive and cope with life’s challenges.  Some of our coping may be [...]