Less Helping Them, More Healing You by podcast host Jean P. Kelly offers an approach to mindfulness that is not another task to add to a fraught day of healing one’s self…by one’s self. It is an invitation to join an ancient community of seekers who have practiced, taught, and embodied centeredness—a certain detachment—achieved through reading. Each chapter explains not only the process with easy-to-follow prompts, but also provides guidance for choosing books, art, music, or even life experience as “textual” starting points for healing.
Join Jean and the wise guides she has discovered as they point the way toward self-knowledge, self-acceptance, self-gift, and above all love.
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Read. Pray. Write.
Searching for Answers, Finding Grace
Words by others who have traveled our road—when read, heard, written—are a steady source of grace and mercy. When despair makes it difficult to find the answers within ourselves, all we need to do is listen. Lectio divina is a simple 4-step method that can be applied to any text. Follow this audio guide, or read how-to here, and see prompts for your spiritual journal. Grace is within your reach, no matter what your life stage, state of mind or faith background.
Why lectio divina?
When you can’t find peace, even prayer seems impossible. But reading with intention and openness is prayer like you’ve never known it. Sometimes only a word or two, either from scriptural or secular texts, is all you need to find rest.Lectio divina is both ancient and timeless, accessible to true believers and doubters alike. Racing thoughts, painful memories, serious questions that might arise during lectio divina are, as one Benedictine monk observed “simply parts of yourself that are asking to be given to God along with the rest of your inner being.” Answers are close by if you just try.
Spiritual Reading can help us heal
In a new book, RPW Host Jean P. Kelly tells how Spiritual Reading allowed her to recognize and avoid unhealthy relationships. She shows readers how to rewrite their own stories, receiving wisdom offered by the world’s greatest spiritual teachers.
A Pilgrimage toward Joy: Read & Pray [Rebroadcast]
A literary pilgrimage leads to a new openness to trust and hope.
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Read. Pray. Heal.
As a survivor of co-dependency and no stranger to distress, Dr. Jean Kelly shares approaches to healing that worked for her, including spiritual reading text suggestions, guided meditations, essays about her faith journey, writing prompts for spiritual journaling, interviews with creatives of faith, and self-help resources. She offers a way forward, upward, and outward through understanding, acceptance and peace.
Have No Desire to be Perfect
Lent reminds us that perfection is never the goal, even for those called to avowed life.
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Finding Grace to Practice More Healing, Less Helping
Unbalanced relationships threaten to harden us. Spiritual Reading creates the space and grace to soften our hearts even when we feel desperate and isolated.
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Love, Pray, Listen, then let prodigal children go
We wait for our adult kids. And we rely on the Father, who understands. After all,. we also were wayward prodigals once, living for our whims.
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