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How to Listen to Health Care Workers – Straight Talk from the Front-line of the Pandemic

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Editor’s Note – SDI is offering a free Town Hall February 26th called “Caring for the Caregivers – Spiritual Companionship for Health and Hospice Care Workers.” You can register here. In this SDI Story, we are blessed to offer the reflections of a health care worker in Australia who provides “strategic management as well as […]

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Hidden Gems – Inspiration from the First 2 Years of SDI Podcasts

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By Matt Whitney, SDI Creative Director & SDI Encounters Podcast Host Thank you to everybody who has supported the SDI Encounters Podcast, by listening, sharing with a friend, writing a review, or by being a guest. At SDI, we see the podcast as a vital part of our outreach to the public on the merits,

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My Sacred Goodbye Ritual – a Free 36-page PDF for Grieving During the Pandemic

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Editor’s note: This is a gift from a spiritual companion new to the SDI Community, Eileen Dunn. We are grateful for her generosity and heart. Sociologists estimate that each COVID-19 death will touch 9 close relatives. (At the time of this writing, that is more than 2.7 million people in the U.S. alone. So, this

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Washing Hands as a Spiritual Practice

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By Darlene Carlson Washing our hands has taken on new meaning because of the pandemic. What once was a quick, mindless cleansing has become an act of private and public safety. Yet, water has always had significant meaning for humankind. It is life-giving. It symbolizes power, grace, purity and transformation. In the following practice, please

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Renaissance 2021 – A New Season of Growth for Spiritual Companionship

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Listen: Can you hear it? There in your heart. A vibration. A resonance. A song. It heralds a fresh start – a greening, a blossoming, an awakening. Be still: Can you feel it brush gently past your skin – like the first warm breeze of spring after the privations of winter? It’s the invigorating whisper of hope – an invitation to begin exploring

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On Hope, Art, Dismantling & Rebuilding

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by Kayce Stevens Hughlett Editor’s note: Kayce is one of the co-presenters of a new SDI webinar series ,called Bringing the Arts to Spiritual Companionship – Awakening the Creative Spirit. She”ll be presenting with Betsey Beckman. It starts January 7, 2021. Learn more here. The following post captures her affirming approach to art and the

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The Power of Intention – A Practice

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Progressive Christian author Rachel Held Evans died after a sudden illness in 2019, at the age of 37, and the world lost a courageous and compelling voice for truth-telling and all-welcoming love. This spiritual practice is inspired by the power of her intention to find and apply the balm of healing by standing firm for

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“My Neighborhood” – Writing as Spiritual Companionship

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My friend Anna and I have had a writing practice for over twenty years. First we meet on the phone and share with one another what we plan to write about. Then, hot tea on the table for each of us—it’s a tradition—we begin. After an hour or so, we speak again on the phone

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Para Todo hay una Estación

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For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to

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