I focus a lot of my time and my energy on looking at suffering. I spend SO much time and energy looking at human suffering and especially the suffering a lot of us have experienced through toxic and traumatizing religious communities and experiences. I *don’t* spend a lot of time focusing on beauty. And for me personally in my practical being and life: beauty is the only onramp for hope… so we’re going to name a bunch of beautiful things today and invite wonder around them so that we can access hope together. 

Beauty and suffering; bitter and sweet. I talk a lot a lot about the bitter and how we heal from it… today we’re going to talk about a necessary companion in that healing: beauty—a necessary companion, because beauty breeds hope. Here’s a list of beautiful things from my life and practice lately. 

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I have a special episode today with a special guest in the studio. A few weeks ago one of my clients and I were wondering together around their marriage and how they’re in a different belief space than when they got married. We were also chatting about how when they got married, religious beliefs had a predominant role in their relationship and how they viewed marriage and marriage with this person. Our dialog helped me realize just how much we all process on the beliefs we’re given via the onramp of our relationships with our significant persons.

All of this wondering made me realize what an opportunity we have here. I’m actually married to a licensed professional counselor who specializes in relationships through counseling and coaching. 

So a fair warning for you… this episode is going to be a little disclosure-y: I’m interviewing my husband, Jesse Huebner today.

Jesse Huebner is a licensed professional counselor and coach that provides a safe and supportive space for you to talk. Jesse acts as a sounding board and employs emotionally focused therapy, problem focused therapy, and a gestalt perspective to help individuals and couples gain self-awareness, clarify goals, achieve their development objectives, and unlock their potential. Jesse sees individuals and couples for counseling in Denver virtually and in-person and sees individuals and couples for coaching all over the world. He has a graduate degree in Counseling from Denver seminary, a CACREP accredited institution, has maintained his own counseling and coaching practice for 2 years, and worked in community mental health in Colorado in varying roles from 2015 to 2021. Jesse is a proud father, husband, and urban farmer that’s passionate about folx finding connection with themselves, with others, and with the earth.

It was demanded of many of us, by culture in the United States, and Christian culture to take responsibility for the emotional, physical, and metaphysical needs or everyone around us and, maybe even, everyone in the world. 

Today I’m talking about overburdening with responsibility, what it looks like, why we’re like this, and how to be with ourselves within all of it. 

What are you actually responsible for?  

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Tema Okun’s Dismantling Racism, Characteristics of White Supremacist Culture: https://www.dismantlingracism.org/uploads/4/3/5/7/43579015/okun_-_white_sup_culture.pdf

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Someone asked me recently how I’ve gotten to where I am… a Spiritual Director for those in deconstruction and deconditioning. You may be surprised I was a little like… what? I had a simultaneous feeling of knowing the exact story and also having no idea. I hadn’t asked in a while and it’s probably a good question to revisit every now and again. BUT I’m weary to be too self-indulgent here… this won’t just be a story about me… we’ll take it broader too.

I’m a Spiritual Director and I’m in my own deconstruction and deconditioning process… in this episode are some of the questions that started it all. 

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A friend asked me the other day my own definition of deconstruction. I try to stay out of church Christian culture wars at all and any costs, but this is a topic that I’m extremely passionate about. So many Christian pastors with large followings and platforms are speaking very negatively about deconstruction and deconstructing folx and it’s creating a stir and a divide in communities and culture. 

Culture and humans make it tricky… it’s all such new terminology and who can use it and how is all becoming a question.

The thing I want to shout from rooftops is: DECONSTRUCTION IS NOT BAD… THOSE DECONSTRUCTING ARE NOT BAD.

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I just want to take today to tell you something… you don’t owe me a good session. 

That’s it. You just don’t. You actually don’t owe me anything. 

You don’t owe me a good podcast episode. You don’t owe me anything. You don’t even owe your audience a good podcast episode. 

That’s what I think. 

If you did owe me anything or anyone else anything, it’s to show up when you can as you can as you. 

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Y’all, I’m on a big journey of authentic becoming. What I wanted to offer today was that authenticity matters in healing and in going public. If you’re finding it challenging to go or maintain being public, it may be because of a wrestle with how and where and to what degree you’re allowed to be authentic in public and all the narratives and voices that come up around all of that.

We’ve all been conditioned to believe certain things about going and being public and… let’s be real… about going and being a freaking human.

I want to offer a little bit of my own journey with growing in authenticity. It’s not perfect and it’s not a picture of a finished journey or a battle won… I’m in it every day too.

It takes a lot of courage to be honest enough with yourself and honest enough with others to be authentic.

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Today, my current client, McKenzie Watson-Fore, and I are talking all about spiritual direction in deconstruction. We chat about not fitting into religious labels and opening spiritually beyond given religious contexts. We talk about how spiritual direction intersects the creative processes of writing and painting, and McKenzie’s path toward and in spiritual direction with me. We also admire together the power of the Spiritual Direction space to be truly heard, especially after so many contexts where being heard was what was promised, but never delivered.

This interview and episode is shared, of course, with permission from McKenzie. We made certain that everything was in place that needed to be in place for her sharing to be equitable and honoring. McKenzie wonders at where she would be today had she found Spiritual Direction 10 years ago and wishes for other folx to know that Spiritual Direction could be an option for them as a part of their healing journey. 

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Through her website: MWatsonFore.com 

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I want you to join the HEAL program opening on August 10th. Why? Because I want you to access the most honest and most authentic you that you can right now. I want you to feel expansive. I want you to love yourself. On this episode, I’m chatting about why I created the program, what it looks like, who’s there, and the impact it could have on your life should you intention it. 

I want you there. Register for HEAL below. 

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This week, I’m sharing an interview I did with one of my current 1/1 clients, Rachael. Rachael has been working with me for a little over a year in the 1/1 spiritual direction space where we’ve gotten to focus so much on liberating her own spiritual experience from her fundamental evangelical upbringing and adulthood. We get to hear what has been most impactful for Rachael on her spiritual direction and where she’s going now because of the expansiveness and authenticity she’s been able to access so far.

We discuss how Spiritual Direction offers judgment-free space of support to wonder… permission to wonder about it all. 

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