Rock Bottom Spiritual Practices
Practices simple enough to try when motivation is gone, but deep enough to slowly change us when we stick with them.
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Prayer Beads Video Guide
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Deep Listening Practice
Choose one album to listen to in its entirety once a week, start to finish, coming back to the same album each week. What do you notice? What shifts in you?
Share Your AlbumThere are moments in life when the things that usually helpā¦donāt.
The insight that once grounded you feels thin.
The practices that used to carry you feel far away.
The adviceāeven when it is really good adviceāstarts to sound like noise.
Some traditions call this the dark night of the soul.
Some call it grief, or burnout, or simplyā¦too much.
A lot of us have been hovering in this place lately.
Which is why, this May, we are choosing to meet ourselves, and each other, right there.
Right as we are, but with a promise: we wonāt stay there alone.
Itās a series weāre calling Rock Bottom Spirituality.
āRock bottomā is a phrase many of us know from stories of addiction, and we will draw on the wisdom of recovery. But there are many paths that lead us to that same place of I have no idea what to do anymore - what Anne Lamott calls "Step Zero," the moment before the first step, when we are simply sick and tired of being sick and tired.
This isnāt a series about fixing rock bottom.
Itās about what becomes possible when we stop trying to manage our way out, and begin to loosen our grip on certainty, control, and the need to have it all figured out.
Over four Sundays, weāll explore practices of surrender, radical acceptance, and borrowed wisdom.
Rev. Sean, Rev. Christopher, and Rev. Gretchen will share what has held them when everything fell apart. Weāll also hear from members of our community about the practices that have carried them.
And together, weāll experiment with practices that are simple enough to try when motivation is gone, but deep enough to slowly change us when we stick with them.
Because sometimes transformation doesnāt begin with clarity.
Sometimes it begins when we are willing to say:
I have no idea what to do.
I donāt feel ready.
Iām not even sure I believe change is possible.
But I am willing to try anyway.
I am willing to trust a wisdom beyond my own knowing.
To let myself be held by something I did not create.
To lean on a community that can remember hope for me when I cannot.
To practice, not because I am certain it will work,
but because I am ready to stop being alone in all this uncertainty.
So this May, join us for Rock Bottom Spirituality.
Come as you are.
Try anyway.
The insight that once grounded you feels thin.
The practices that used to carry you feel far away.
The adviceāeven when it is really good adviceāstarts to sound like noise.
Some traditions call this the dark night of the soul.
Some call it grief, or burnout, or simplyā¦too much.
A lot of us have been hovering in this place lately.
Which is why, this May, we are choosing to meet ourselves, and each other, right there.
Right as we are, but with a promise: we wonāt stay there alone.
Itās a series weāre calling Rock Bottom Spirituality.
āRock bottomā is a phrase many of us know from stories of addiction, and we will draw on the wisdom of recovery. But there are many paths that lead us to that same place of I have no idea what to do anymore - what Anne Lamott calls "Step Zero," the moment before the first step, when we are simply sick and tired of being sick and tired.
This isnāt a series about fixing rock bottom.
Itās about what becomes possible when we stop trying to manage our way out, and begin to loosen our grip on certainty, control, and the need to have it all figured out.
Over four Sundays, weāll explore practices of surrender, radical acceptance, and borrowed wisdom.
Rev. Sean, Rev. Christopher, and Rev. Gretchen will share what has held them when everything fell apart. Weāll also hear from members of our community about the practices that have carried them.
And together, weāll experiment with practices that are simple enough to try when motivation is gone, but deep enough to slowly change us when we stick with them.
Because sometimes transformation doesnāt begin with clarity.
Sometimes it begins when we are willing to say:
I have no idea what to do.
I donāt feel ready.
Iām not even sure I believe change is possible.
But I am willing to try anyway.
I am willing to trust a wisdom beyond my own knowing.
To let myself be held by something I did not create.
To lean on a community that can remember hope for me when I cannot.
To practice, not because I am certain it will work,
but because I am ready to stop being alone in all this uncertainty.
So this May, join us for Rock Bottom Spirituality.
Come as you are.
Try anyway.