by Bruce McIntyre | May 22, 2020 | Spiritual Stuff
Watching the things you neglect to notice Can you remember a time as a child that you lay on your back in the grass watching the clouds? Tired and sweaty from running or playing, you plopped down alone or maybe with siblings or friends. Gazing long enough into the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 10, 2019 | Spiritual Stuff
Spirituality for Caregiving and Chronic Illness Just a wild guess here. You may not wake up happy every morning. Some, but not all. Perhaps the unwanted intruders of anxiety, stress, and legitimate worry invaded your attempts at sleep. Maybe you’re just grumpy. Or,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 15, 2019 | Spiritual Stuff
Spirituality for Caregiving and Chronic Illness Receptive. Bathing your heart, mind, soul, and being in the notion of receptivity can transport you into a radically healthy place. You have probably grappled with the concept of extending grace to other people,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 15, 2019 | Spiritual Stuff
Spirituality for Caregiving and Chronic Illness In most cases, religion serves to help us grow in spirituality and spirituality often helps create the best of religion. But, these are not interchangeable terms. For clarity’s sake, religion refers to a particular...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 1, 2019 | Spiritual Stuff
Spirituality for Caregiving and Chronic Illness Independence. Autonomy. As much as you may enjoy charting your own course in life, you may also discover that there is value in the notion of interconnectedness. I like to do my own thing, but I have also come to...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 1, 2019 | Spiritual Stuff
Spirituality for Caregiving and Chronic Illness Whether you consider yourself religious or not, caregiving and chronic illness soon leads you into inherently spiritual terrain. These scenarios are frustrating. They make us mad and sad; and they prompt us to cuss and...
