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April Stace
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Artist in Residence - Week 3
Hi Hive! I'm happy to share with you this piece. Would love it if you can leave a comment about what you see or feel when you listen to it.
April Stace
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January Artist in Residence - Week 2
I'm happy to share with you one of the pieces I'm working on. It doesn't have a name yet, but here's a base layer for the music.
April Stace
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January Artist in Residence - Week 1
Hi Hive! Here's my first video update with a tour of where I do my creating.
Kristen Ostendorf
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Week 6 - A Service for Candlemas
Humans have long marked midwinter as a transitional or liminal space. The presentation of Jesus in the temple helps us consider where God is
Kristen Ostendorf
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Week 5 - Moving Through Liminal Spaces & COVID
What does it mean to move through or out of liminal spaces?
Kristen Ostendorf
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Week 4 - Axis Mundi - Your Home Altar
When we're not able to meet together in person, setting up a home altar or prayer nook can help get us through this liminal time.
Kristen Ostendorf
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Week 3 - A Vesper Prayer Walk
How can we use "falling darkness" or "vesper light" to lean into this time of liminality and grow closer to God?
Kristen Ostendorf
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Week 2 - Release, Reclaim, and Retain
As we face this liminal moment of Epiphanytide and the ongoing pandemic, it feels like a good time to pray for God's blessings on our homes.
Kristen Ostendorf
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Week 1 - Living in Transitional Times
What does it mean to live in transitional or in-between times? It can be incredibly frightening and we might be in one now.
Erin Jean Warde
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New Year's Eve & Alcohol
New Year’s Eve is different for everyone, but in my work as a recovery coach it is a time when I am especially tender toward people who...
Erin Jean Warde
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Boundaries & Self-Trust
Today I want us to dig into something that has been hard for me (not that any of this has been easy): self-trust.
Erin Jean Warde
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Post-Holiday Care
What do you feel like today, after a possibly long week last week? What are some ways you can pause this week to give your mind, body...
Erin Jean Warde
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Christmas Eve and Mocktail Hour
Today, given it is literally Christmas Eve for some of us, I wanted to offer a little something that I hope is fun.
Erin Jean Warde
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Self-Care is an Act of Political Warfare
Often I can become cynical about self-care, rolling my eyes when it pops up. However, when I return to Audre Lorde’s quote I am reminded...
Erin Jean Warde
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Christmas Week and Self-Care
Hello friends, this is a very intense week!
I just want to mention that this might be a week when it feels impossible to care for yourself
Erin Jean Warde
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Feeling Festive?
Today, I want to share with you a resource I made for people who are
trying to stay sober during the holidays or hosting those who are.
Erin Jean Warde
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The Role of Coping in Survival
Coping is normal. Demonizing how we have tried to support ourselves through some of the toughest moments and seasons in our lives will not..
Erin Jean Warde
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Coping and the Stress of December
What comes to mind for you when you think about coping? What are some ways you are coping during the understandable stressors of this month
Erin Jean Warde
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The Role of the Examen
The Examen became so foundational for me in early recovery that it is the prayerful backbone of my course.
Erin Jean Warde
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Escaping the Body
When I was drinking, I was not intentionally trying to escape my body, but I was always running from it for so many reasons.
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