In this bonus episode,  you'll be invited to meet your inner child.   It's designed as a meditation to go along with "Wonder" (S1 E2). Please consider listening to that episode first, to give context to what you'll experience here. You inner child is real and can be a resource to you. Getting in touch with them can be a way to heal old wounds that limit your sense of self worth and can also be a way to bring back creativity, compassion and imagination back into your adult life. But this experience, while freeing, can also bring up pain points from your childhood. Be gentle with yourself. If you feel triggered at any time during the meditation, please consider pausing or stopping altogether. Return only when you feel ready. I'm happy to coach you through this. Email me at [email protected].

In this second episode of our "Welcome Your Life" series, we look at a vital, but often neglected, aspect of a healthy spirituality - wonder.  As adults we tend to lose that unfiltered amazement of the world we had as children. Our agendas take over instead because we think wonder is a luxury we can no longer afford. But could it be that what we seem to have lost in our adult lives has never left us? And that recapturing wonder can reconnect us with what's always been most essential to us?We'll visit with Lacy Finn Borgo and Steph Cheung to help us see why we've lost wonder and how to recover it. Lacy is the author of "Spiritual Conversations with Children," and has another books in print and on the way related to spirituality and children. Find out more about her work at Good Dirt Ministries. Steph is on staff with InterVarsity and has come up with a truly unique way to incorporate play and wonder into her sabbatical time away from work.Music by Blue Dot Sessions.Learn more about Soul Search at our website.

In this bonus episode, you'll be guided through a "walk of presence" in which you imagine yourself walking through a neighborhood, or any physical space that is meaningful to you. It's designed as a meditation to go along with "Walk" (S1 E1) Please consider listening to that episode first, so you'll have context for what you'll be guided through here. We'll pick up on the themes of lingering, lament and hope that Kirk Davis talked about in that episode, but using the imagination as a way to interact with them. While being seated in a quiet space will be a helpful way to do this meditation, you might also try listening to it while walking through a physical space, especially if you are a body movement learner.

In Episode One of our very first podcast series, called "Welcome Your Life," we look at walking as a spiritual practice to deepen our awareness in life. This is a certain kind of walking, not to get anywhere or to accomplish anything. Instead it is a walk to linger and to listen.  We'll join Kirk Davis, a San Francisco native and community leader in the city's Bayview neighborhood, to trace the steps of a sacred walk he would take through the city.  Often taking several hours, it is a way he intentionally listened to what the city is saying to him about the past and the future. And to what stirred in his heart as he contemplated both.To learn more about Kirk's work in Bayview/Hunters Point, visit https://www.kairossf.org.Music by Blue Dot Sessions

The key to a spiritual life is not finding a way to manufacture a life that is spiritual but instead giving yourself more deeply to the life that you’re already living. In our first series of podcasts, we’ll take a look at this essential part of the spiritual journey, one we’re calling “Welcome Your Life.” You'll hear stories and interviews from everyday people and experts in the contemplative life, who have regained a sense of wonder and purpose to life through the simple act of letting go.  Music: Borough by Blue Dot Sessionshttps://thesoulsearch.org/podcast

Who are you? How we answer this question determines everything in life. Too often our culture answers it for us, taking us away from being in touch with who we truly are. The essence of the spiritual life is to reclaim our lost identity. Using a blend of storytelling and interviews, the Soul Search podcast is an up-close look at this journey, taking you below the surface of life to find your deepest and truest self.  https://thesoulsearch.org/podcastMusic: The Onyx by Blue Dot Sessions