A community dedicated to exploring how the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model can enrich our lives by nurturing self-awareness, curiosity, compassion, and connection across relationships, work, parenting, spirituality, diversity, and beyond.

We deal with stressful circumstances every day. Yet in those times when our life journeys bring disappointments and suffering we must discover new ways to find an enduring kind of hope that helps us embrace new wholeness...

I live in the margins and theology gets muddy in the margins. Here I write about what that looks like as I live alongside refugee claimants, mothering a child with a disability, and other liminal spaces where hope and suffering meet.

A place to practice contemplative, expansive and maybe unsettling Christianity

🕯️Posts and companion portions to weekly audio from author, broadcaster (Spark My Muse), and teacher Lisa Colón DeLay (usually once a week). Paid subscribers get full editions, extras, and can leave comments. Dialogue welcome. ❤️