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Emotions

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The Secret Power of Rumination

You Didn’t Know You Were a Genius! Humans are brilliant at story-telling, but sometimes we tell ourselves stories on repeat. Here's what helps.

Hope

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Hope Outside of Religion (Part 2)

Practical Questions to Promote Conversations About Hope

Hope

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Hope Outside of Religion (Part 1)

How Can We Help Those Who Have Left the Church Find Sources of Hope?

Hope

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A Practice: Questions to Build Hope

Questions That Promote Hopeful Conversations about Existential Thoughts

Spirituality

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What is Spiritual Health?

Spiritual Health Opens Life to Love

Christian

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Bearing Fruit Where We are Planted

While good soil makes it easier to grow strong trees, we can cultivate the soil of our communities and grow strong roots to fulfill our unique purposes, no matter where we are planted.

Practices

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Hacking our Habits

Changing a habit takes time and practice. Here's how to get started. Your moment by moment choices form the person you are becoming.

Love

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Healthy Spirituality – The Focus is Love: The Role of Leaders

Healthy spirituality supports and develops the human capacity to love. Part 2 of a 2-part series.

Love

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Healthy Spirituality – The Focus is Love: Why is Love So Hard?

Healthy spirituality supports and develops the human capacity to love. Part 1 of a 2-part series.

Agility

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Roadmap to Joy

Love of God and love of neighbor provide the deepest values on the road to joy as we become more like Christ, as ourselves.

Agility

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Creating a Joy Habit with the 5 As of Agility

Joy is something you can habituate through practice. Pay attention to joy in your body and emotions, then activate into your purposes.

Practices

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Rhythms and Rest (Part 2)

How do rituals around rest help us to regulate? What does it mean to co-regulate? Why might rest be necessary for our spirituality?

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