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Spiritual Direction Without Bypassing (Part 2): When Meaning-Making Comes Too Soon active listening body awareness kasey hitt spiritual bypassing spiritual direction Mar 03, 2026

“Mom, now is not the time for meaning-making!” my teenager said to me.

Instantly, I knew what she meant—and I apologized.

I have a habit of looking for deeper meaning, of going beneath the surface of things. That impulse is not inherently bad. But when it happens too soon, it bypasses what needs t...

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Spiritual Direction without Bypassing: When the Body Leads active listening body awareness kasey hitt spiritual bypassing spiritual direction Feb 24, 2026

“I feel crunched and crushed,” she said.

It was an online spiritual direction session, and this was how my directee—a college professor—began the call.

She went on to describe the anger and angst she felt living within society’s grind culture and the relentless pressure it places on people. This p...

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From Headline to Holy Pause body awareness holy waiting katie rea wisdom tree wednesday Jan 28, 2026

How do we meet events we cannot fix?

A massive winter storm swept across the continental United States this weekend. I read that nearly 40 states were under winter weather alerts. Here in Nashville, TN, we have snow and ice.

So far, news reports indicate that tens of thousands of customers across ...

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