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on saying no
the liberation of under-commitment before we jump in, i invite you to take a wee quiz. please answer the following t/f questions: i have...
Abby Luca
Feb 14, 20236 min read
dura mater
digging into boundary work as a scientifically curious human, i'm frequently amazed by the tiny synchronicities and parallels amongst and...
Abby Luca
Nov 28, 202214 min read
"spiritual but not religious"
wait, what? as someone with one foot in the collective experience of health and healing through my professional work as a midwife and the...
Abby Luca
Nov 11, 202210 min read
back from hibernation
an update and a check in long time no see, my loves! it might sound odd to think of summer as a time of hibernation, but for me, that's...
Abby Luca
Oct 12, 20223 min read
use your words
the power of naming what we feel do you ever have an experience where a word or phrase just keeps coming up and up and up, almost like...
Abby Luca
May 19, 20226 min read
becoming naturalized
finding your relationship to place holding patterns are funny things. as one half of a couple who's worked through the stresses and...
Abby Luca
May 9, 20226 min read
parallelogram season
actively crafting the learning you wished you'd had as i head into the end of my time in an interfaith chaplaincy program, many...
Abby Luca
Mar 24, 20227 min read
finding our bearings
when the press of everything threatens us one of the amazing truths of being a human is that, aside from small temporal details, there is...
Abby Luca
Mar 13, 202213 min read
wisdom councils
reviving and revamping old models of support thinking back on your life, when were the times that you felt most calmly, sturdily, and...
Abby Luca
Mar 6, 20223 min read
the power of winter
roadmaps for reclaiming our time stepping out of the boil say the word "january" to anyone in academia, and odds are you'll actually feel...
Abby Luca
Feb 28, 202212 min read
experiments in everyday chaplaincy 4
susan silk's ring theory (image credit: wes bausmith) a model for knowing how to relate in episode 3 of this series, i gave some examples...
Abby Luca
Feb 22, 20226 min read
experiments in everyday chaplaincy 3
running with metaphors (pictured: in-process office space for the hearth chaplain!) in my work a a midwife, a chaplain, and a human...
Abby Luca
Feb 15, 20227 min read
finding our new skins
lessons from the selkies art credit: a. len bell @loimestudios the magic of metaphor when working with personal spiritual or...
Abby Luca
Feb 6, 202212 min read
third things
(or, who wants to start a book club?) a digression into learning models as a teacher, i've had occasions, both beautifully fluid and rich...
Abby Luca
Jan 30, 20226 min read
the self in three dimensions
your depth, breadth, and length who are you? it's a perpetual question that follows (and sometimes haunts) us, deceptively suggesting...
Abby Luca
Jan 23, 20224 min read
reflectionary: divine liminality
written for a chime interfaith service delivered on 1/16/22 welcome to the divine in-between, to the holy holding, to the liminal space...
Abby Luca
Jan 16, 20225 min read
what interfaith chaplains are and aren't
clarifying the role of interfaith spiritual care outside of the world of organized religion, it can be difficult to conceive of the role...
Abby Luca
Jan 11, 20226 min read
reflectionary: bless this mess
sermon from a chime interfaith service on 4/18/21 sometimes, in seeking one self-defined or preconceived type of spiritual experience, we...
Abby Luca
Jan 3, 20224 min read
winter intention-setting
a practice and a ritual if you ask me, today is a pretty sweet spot. smack dab in the heart of the winter holidays, we're halfway...
Abby Luca
Dec 26, 20214 min read
experiments in everyday chaplaincy 2
you're more than just a heart and a mind during a retreat weekend in my chaplaincy program, i was being chaplained by a fellow...
Abby Luca
Dec 19, 20214 min read
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