A new home

My blog has a new home, here on my new website! Welcome!

I haven't written much in the last few years through reentry. This past summer, I read The Lord is My Courage, by KJ Ramsey, and it helped me understand why I haven't had a lot of words for writing in the last few years. She is a therapist and also has personal experience of religious trauma. This book explores Psalm 23 through those lenses and it was one of my favorite books I read in 2022.

She writes, "When harm happens, the senselessness and powerlessness of suffering overwhelms our bodies and disconnects us from our brains' innate capacity to name and tame the truth of our experience. Trauma steals our tongues. It disconnects us from being able to readily access the language centers of our brains, as we dip down the autonomic ladder to survive" (pg. 136). When I read this and some other things she shares about her experience, it was like a light bulb went on for me. I've struggled to write in the last couple of years. Blogs and newsletters have been really sporadic and a lot of work and even journaling has not been that helpful of a practice. Reading her words gave me so much peace. Oh, it isn't just me!

I've spent the last few months accepting that words and writing were not my go to, but that it probably won't be forever. As I've had more time to heal and not live on high alert all the time, my desire to write is creeping back. So here I am, writing a blog post for the first time in more than a year. At one time I wrote at least once a week, I discovered when I went back through all my posts to only transfer my favorites. In the blog re-boot, I'm planning to post monthly and shift to more on topics of spiritual life and formation and spiritual direction, perhaps with some stories of how God shows up in every day life.

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