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
- 3 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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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