Benedictine Spirituality

The False Self and Habits

April 27, 2023 0 comments

The False Self's Role in Default Behavior Patterns A core teaching in contemplative practices is to become aware of the difference between the influence of our true, divinely-led self on the quality of our presence and actions compared to the influence of our false-self system. Our false-self system developed to satisfy our perceived need for [...]

Eating Perfectly Doesn’t Fix Everything

January 26, 2021 4 comments

Realizing that I couldn't control everything felt crushing, but it opened the space to embark on the true process of growing.Moving away from expectations and control I spent my young adulthood absorbing the unfolding story of how our daily food and lifestyle choices can manipulate who we are. Hard to pronounce superfoods could guarantee our [...]

2020 – A Year for Perfect Vision

January 4, 2020 2 comments

Happy 2020 everyone! What a year 2019 was... and what hope a new year always brings. I commented to my husband that 2020 already sounded so familiar to say (usually it takes me a while to warm up to the yearly transition) and he replied: "it's because it's perfect vision". And so a theme for [...]

Long-term motivation vs my susceptibility to anxiety and self-medicating

October 25, 2019 6 comments

I originally shared this post in the "Introductions" CARE Forum topic, visible only to current members. But these details shouldn't be excluded from my "About" page. That timeline ends in 2011. I wrote the below in March of 2019; an update will be coming soon (the life raft I mentioned below was damaged over the [...]

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