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Styles of Vision by John O'Donohue
"To the fearful eye, all is threatening. When you look toward the world in a fearful way, all you see and concentrate on are things that...

Julia Roach
Dec 28, 20223 min read


The Necessity of Rest
“The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try...

Julia Roach
Nov 25, 20221 min read


For Someone Awakening to the Trauma of His or Her Past from John O'Donohue
For Someone Awakening To The Trauma of His or Her Past: For everything under the sun there is a time. This is the season of your awkward...

Julia Roach
Oct 21, 20211 min read


Rumi on Equilibrium...
Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you are bravely working. Expecting the worst, you look, and instead, here’s...

Julia Roach
Aug 28, 20211 min read


From Eudora Welty ...
“The frame through which I viewed the world changed too, over time. Greater than scene, I came to see, is situation. Greater than...

Julia Roach
Aug 5, 20211 min read


A RESTorative Poem by John O'Donohue
https://onbeing.org/blog/john-odonohue-for-one-who-is-exhausted-a-blessing/

Julia Roach
Jun 6, 20211 min read


A Thought on Forgiveness from Poet, David Whyte
“To forgive is to put oneself in a larger gravitational field of experience than the one that first seemed to hurt us. We reimagine...

Julia Roach
Apr 26, 20211 min read


Thoughts from Barbara Brown Taylor
“To see takes time, like having a friend takes time. It is as simple as turning off the television to learn the song of a single bird....

Julia Roach
Apr 20, 20211 min read


An Image of Faith
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

Julia Roach
Mar 28, 20211 min read


Finding Shelter...
We all need a safe, relational shelter for our unspoken experiences, thoughts, feelings and longings. Taking a step away from isolation...

Julia Roach
Mar 19, 20211 min read


Thoughts on Healing
"We thought we could cure everything, but it turns out that we can only cure a small amount of human suffering. The rest of it needs to...

Julia Roach
Feb 4, 20211 min read


A Recommend Read for 2021
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." Viktor Frankl

Julia Roach
Jan 5, 20211 min read


An Easter Week Entry
In the Face of Flowers: Artist, Julia Roach One of the most difficult aspects of divorce for me was moving out of the home where our...

Julia Roach
Apr 10, 20203 min read
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