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You may find the following resources helpful:
Forgiveness
Image of God
Mindfulness and Meditation
12 Step Spirituality
Grief and Loss
Feeling Word Vocabulary
Loved Into Being
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Forgiveness
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How We Get Hooked (Shenpa) and How We Get Unhooked Pema Chödrön on shenpa, or the urge, the hook, that triggers our habitual tendency to close down. We get hooked in that moment of tightening when we reach for relief. To get unhooked, we begin by recognizing that moment of unease and learn to relax in that moment.
Nine Steps to Forgiveness Steps you can take to reduce anger, hurt, depression and stress and move to greater feelings of hope, peace, compassion and self confidence, healthy relationships as well as physical health.
A Process Model of Forgiving by Robert Enright and Gayle Reed, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin -Madison
Letting Go: How to Forgive Anyone and Why Your Health Depends On It By Harriet Brown. What, exactly, does it take to move past a lifetime of hurts? Harriet Brown goes on a mission to discover the true meaning of forgiveness.
The Five Languages of Apology - includes a link to a quiz to determine your apology language.
Loving Our Enemies - thoughts by Fr. Ron Rolheiser OMI
Books:
Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.
Ilibagiza, Immaculee, and Steve Erwin. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust. London: Hay House, 2006.
Linn, Dennis, Sheila Fabricant Linn, and Matthew Linn. Don’t Forgive Too soon: Extending the Two Hands That Heal. New York: Paulist Press, 1997.
Nhat Hanh. Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames. New York: Riverhead Books, 2002.
Nhat Hanh. Reconciliation: healing the inner child. Berkeley, Calif.: Parallax Press, 2010.
Nouwen, Henri J. M. The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
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Image of God
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How we look at God has a large impact on how we pray.
“How Big Is Your God?” - Paul Coutinho SJ (video)
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Mindfulness and Meditation
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How to do Mindfulness Meditation by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Mindfulness practice is simple and completely feasible. Just by sitting and doing nothing, we are doing a tremendous amount.
Opening to Our Lives (transcript and podcast) “Jon Kabat-Zinn has learned, through science and experience, about mindfulness as a way of life. This is wisdom with immediate relevance to the ordinary and extreme stresses of our time -- from economic peril, to parenting, to life in a digital age.”
How We Get Hooked and How We Get Unhooked “Shenpa [a Tibetan word for] the urge, the hook, that triggers our habitual tendency to close down. We get hooked in that moment of tightening when we reach for relief. To get unhooked we begin by recognizing that moment of unease and learn to relax in that moment.”
Books
De Mello, Anthony. Sadhana, a Way to God: Christian Exercises in Eastern Form. Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books, 1984.
Laird, Martin. Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Twelve Step Spirituality
“Let go and let God.” The principles of the Twelve Steps offer a lot of wisdom and guidance in addressing our less obvious addictive behaviors, such as a need to fix or rescue, or a need to control.
Links
Richard Rohr Meditations Resolve to Recognize My Addictions from Daily Meditations provided by the Center for Action and Contemplation - www.cac.org
Books
Rohr, Richard. Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps. Cincinnati, OH: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2011.
Shapiro, Rami. Recovery -- the Sacred Art: The Twelve Steps as Spiritual Practice. Woodstock, Vermont: Skylight Paths Publishing, 2009.
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Grief and Loss
Links
Loss History Graph Exercise
Notes on Loss History Graphs
Naming Losses
Books
Leonard, Richard. Where the hell is God? Mahwah, N.J.: HiddenSpring, 2010.
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Feeling Word Vocabulary
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The following are links to lists of various feeling words:
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Loved Into Being
DISCOVERING THE PERSONAL NAME GOD HAS GIVEN YOU by Fr. Bernie Owens, SJ.
(Page Last Updated: 4/21/2020)
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