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What is Spiritual Awareness?
Spiritual awareness is engaging in experiences and responding to God, nature, or universal spirit, or what psychologists identify as our source of transcendence.
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How are mental, physical, and spiritual health related?
Physical, mental and spiritual health are interconnected as part of holistic health, with each facet influencing the health of the others.
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Recovering the Sacred in an Age of Anxiety, with Dr. Varun Soni
We need a recovery of the sacred in our secular world. Because the mental, emotional, and psychological struggles haunting society right now can’t be solved without addressing meaning, purpose, and the longing for connection to something beyond ourselves. In other words, spiritual health is an essential part of mental health. An attorney, religious scholar, and university chaplain, Dr. Varun Soni is Dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California, and is leading us back to our true north, through spacious and life-giving spiritual conversations and sacred practices that realign us to our values and identity. In this conversation...
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Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS 2025) conference
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Pam King and three Thrive Fellows will be actively participating in the 2025 CAPS International Conference, “Climbing to New Heights: Growth and Transformation in the Integrated Professional.” This esteemed event is scheduled from March 20-22, 2025, at the Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center in Denver, Colorado. Dr. King will deliver a presentation titled “Spiritual Health for Thriving With & For Others,” sharing her insights on fostering spiritual well-being in communal settings.…
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Can Enjoying Beauty Help us Connect to the Transcendent?
When we experience something or someone as beautiful, it creates a cascade of positive emotions and thoughts. Here's why you should seek beauty in your life.
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Listening to Our Emotions: Healing Through Self-Compassion, Grief, and Acceptance with Dr. David C. Wang
Emotional health is deeply intertwined in an ongoing journey with spiritual health. This involves opening to our pain, grieving our trauma, and patiently cultivating a resilience that stabilizes and secures our relationships and our sense of self. With compassion, pastoral presence, and emotional attunement, psychologist Dr. David Wang is using psychological and theological tools to help us understand and adapt to emotional realities, explore the wounds of our past, and find healing and strength through acceptance and grief. In this conversation with David Wang, we discuss: – The difference between human development and spiritual formation and how to understand maturity...
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How to improve your spiritual health
Improving your spiritual health and wellness isn’t like flipping a switch. It takes time, effort, and requires practice.
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A More Meaningful New Year
Why is this happening? Why did this happen to me? If you are struggling with making meaning of a situation, read more for ideas and practices.
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Thrive Center Awarded Interfaith America’s Faith & Health Campus Grant!
We are thrilled to announce that we received a grant from Interfaith America’s Health & Faith Initiative for the Spiritual Health, Thriving and Chaplaincy Project. This grant will support an innovative collaboration between Fuller’s MA Chaplaincy (MAC) Program, the Office of Chaplains, and the Thrive Center to equip spiritually-engaged leaders—such as chaplains, clergy, and therapists—with the knowledge and tools to integrate psychological resources within religion and spirituality for promoting mental health and well-being. The project will develop three graduate-level courses, foster campus-community partnerships, and produce a video exploring multi-faith perspectives on spiritual health. Building on Fuller’s rich history…
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Season 2 Trailer! Reconnect, Repair, Rebuild in 2025
SEASON 2 is launching January 6, 2025! Subscribe to With & For today! How can we reconnect, repair, and rebuild our fractured world? We need grounded scientific insight that we connect us with what is good, true, and beautiful. We need wider perspective that guides us toward purpose, community, wisdom, and spiritual health. Developmental psychologist, ordained minister, and professor, Dr. Pam King introduces Season 2 of With & For, which launches on January 6, 2025. Inviting guests with expertise in psychology, spirituality, and leadership, this new season will tackle practical questions with courage, openness, and hope—focusing on insights, stories, and...
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What is the Advent season?
What is the advent season all about? We’ll tell you all about the history, when it starts, and how it’s celebrated.
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