Falling in Love
There is a quote from Pedro Arrupe, a Jesuit, that I read periodically and find simultaneously inspiring and challenging: "Nothing is...
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Cyd Holsclaw
May 17, 20233 min read
Pondering Parsley: Tending to Roots
It's been a long spring/winter in Michigan this year. We had snow all the way through April, and even into the first week of May! But...
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Cyd Holsclaw
Mar 17, 20234 min read
The Beauty of an Empty Shell
Shells are most beautiful when they're empty. I know that the creatures that live inside the shells are precious to their Creator, but...
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Cyd Holsclaw
Jan 10, 20233 min read
Why Change Has to Start in the Body: Part 1
Many of us don't know just how good our bodies are, or how necessary it is to pay attention to our bodies when we're trying to make...
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Cyd Holsclaw
Jan 2, 20232 min read
Just 30 Minutes to End / Begin Your Year Well
Why Don't We Reflect More Often? Chances are, the reason you don't engage in more rhythms of reflection and intention is because you...
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Cyd Holsclaw
Oct 28, 20223 min read
Where is the Pathway?
Do you ever feel like you're wandering in your life with God? Maybe you know you "should" be praying or reading the Bible or having some...
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Cyd Holsclaw
Sep 26, 20224 min read
Embracing My Limits
I am, by nature, a challenger. My motto, for much of my life, was pretty close to, "Where there's a will, there's a way." But as I'm...
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Cyd Holsclaw
Sep 19, 20224 min read
Why Don't I Pray More? The Call to Come - Ignatian Reflections
Why Don't We Ask?
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Cyd Holsclaw
Sep 13, 20223 min read
Personal Reflection: An Invitation to Healing
"Have you ever had that looked at by a dermatologist?" The question a makeup artist asked, with genuine compassion, regarding a...
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Cyd Holsclaw
Aug 19, 20223 min read
How Do We Make Sense Of and Integrate the Past? Part 4
So far, in this series, I've told a story of integrating my past into my present by meeting Jesus as God With Me in my daily moments,...
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Cyd Holsclaw
Aug 18, 20223 min read
How Do We Make Sense of and Integrate the Past? Part 3
In the last two posts, I've been focusing on different approaches to integrating our past with our present. I told my own story of...
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Cyd Holsclaw
Aug 17, 20224 min read
How Do We Make Sense of and Integrate the Past? Part 2
In the last post, I told my process of learning to trust in the presence of Jesus in the present and how that led to seeing him in the...
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Cyd Holsclaw
Aug 16, 20223 min read
How Do We Make Sense of and Integrate the Past? Part 1
One of the hardest seasons of my parenting life was when my husband, Geoff, was working on his PhD. We were living in the Chicago area,...
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Cyd Holsclaw
Aug 13, 20221 min read
Why Change Has to Start in the Body: Conclusion
For the past few days, we've been unpacking how our nervous systems were shaped in relationships and how it's possible to be transformed...
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Cyd Holsclaw
Aug 12, 20223 min read
Why Change Has to Start in the Body: Part 4
Yesterday, we ended with the struggle of implicit memory telling us what is safe and what is dangerous and the way that is physically...
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Cyd Holsclaw
Aug 11, 20223 min read
Why Change Has to Start in the Body: Part 3
This is the 3rd post in a series about why we have to pay attention to our bodies in order to make any significant or lasting change....
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Cyd Holsclaw
Aug 10, 20224 min read
Why Change Has to Start in the Body: Part 2
This is the 2nd post in a series explaining why we have to pay attention to our bodies in order to make any lasting changes of any kind -...
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