by Sarah P. Jose | Sep 21, 2025 | Emotions, Stories
I have become like broken pottery. Ps. 31:12 At age 23, soon to be married, I lay under a mosquito net sobbing. No one in the training school I was attending in Bangalore could even begin to understand or provide comfort. Unfortunately, my devotional time fanned the...
by Sarah P. Jose | Jul 14, 2025 | Chronic Pain, Emotions
In my last post, I started looking at the change of mindset I needed as I began my healing journey. This post gets into the specific skills, which served to change my relationship with my body and my pain. In reality, it took hitting a very low point for me to...
by Sarah P. Jose | Jun 30, 2025 | Chronic Pain, Emotions, Uncategorized
Feeling stuck in a bad place physically or emotionally is one of the worst feelings in the world. In fact, feeling hopelessly stuck traumatizes us. Think of a small animal pinned helplessly in a hunter’s trap, unable to move and scared of the hand reaching out to...
by Sarah P. Jose | May 28, 2025 | Chronic Pain, Emotions
In my last post, I talked about the miracle of becoming compassionately curious about the chronic tension in my body. Instead of blaming myself for not handling stress well or being a tense person, I began to understand chronic tension as a normal outcome from trauma....
by Sarah P. Jose | Apr 27, 2025 | Chronic Pain, Emotions
I spend about 2 hours per day working on my body to maintain my mobility. If I skip my body work, my tension builds up. My walking becomes jerky and tight, I begin to lean to the left because bearing weight on my right leg feels too painful, and my mental state...
by Sarah P. Jose | Mar 28, 2025 | Emotions, Meditation
In my last post, you had the chance to journey through different steps of thought in the Visio Divina practice. To fully enjoy this current post, you might want to revisit The Downward Spiral and take note of the story of the original staircase at the Loretto Chapel....
