Please note: It will be very helpful to read the two articles on Colors Of Faith for context before reading the articles written later.  Thank you. Enjoy!

Making Space for Grace

This has been a very hard time for many people who are in a process of grieving and feeling an initial shock, disbelief, numbness, anger, and deep sadness over the election of Donald Trump.  Some of my clients have come to their sessions hoping to hear some wisdom...

Confronting Your Systems of Shame

From an Integral Psychology perspective, cleaning up religious shame involves working on both our interior self and our relationship with the external systems that impose shame on us.  Doing the interior work first helps us to shift perspectives and consciously choose...

Set up by Shame

One of my clients conveyed a story of how she thinks her mother’s response to anger set her up to stay in an emotionally abusive relationship.  I’ll call her Joan, which is not her real name.  When Joan was 17 years old, she was dating a popular high school...

The Vision for Healing and Restoration

These days I feel sad and sometimes angry as we witness the name of Christianity being used and manipulated for political gain.  Many Christians at the traditional, blue level on the spiral are sincere believers who are being used and sometimes abused...

Original Shame

Sitting near the front of the church with my parents and near the other kids my age, the visiting evangelist at our little conservative church declared boldly and loudly that unless we came forward to accept Jesus into our hearts we were going straight to hell,...