Hello my name is Katherina and I am an addict. I am addicted to comparison…and maybe some of you are too. I don’t think that there is a day that goes by where I don’t compare my life to someone else’s. Or where I don’t look at what someone else has achieved and think of…
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The Break Up
This post is not about relationships. This post is not about getting attention. This post is not about making other people feel bad. This post is about the relationship we have with ourselves. This post is about calling attention to the way we think about ourselves. This post is about helping other people see things…
Remember
I am currently writing this post while eating waffles and ice cream and thanking the good Lord that I didn’t have to fast from food this past week. Now besides being insanely jealous of my breakfast you are probably also wondering how I fasted if I didn’t give up food. Our traditional view on fasting…
Retreat
This week was a quiet one…because it was my week of silence. This was the one discipline that I was probably most anxious about because I have almost no experience with it. However I endeavoured to give it a try anyways. I did not take a vow of silence (like Maria in The Sound of…
Return
worship noun The feeling or expression of reverence and adoration towards God prayer noun a solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God These are the two spiritual disciplines that I focused on this past week. While they are in fact two separate disciplines, for me they are so entwined that…
Refocus
This past week marked the beginning of my month long endeavour of trying out different spiritual disciplines. The first discipline that I attempted was that of meditation. The word meditation is bound to conjure up very similar images for most people… monks sitting cross legged on a stone by a river, yogis chanting “ohm” for…
Hello September
Today is the first day of September (okay today is the second day of September but I was going to post this yesterday but got a little distracted). Which means that fall is just 20 days away, or if you live in the dry smokey realm of Alberta where the trees are already turning colour...it…
Choosing to Rebuild
Throughout our lives we experience many things... We lose jobs and start new jobs. We start relationships and end relationships. We live somewhere and leave somewhere. We lose love and we find love. We lose our way and find it again. Our lives are a constant ebb and flow of one thing after another, of…
Toss the Map
Life is a funny thing. We create all of these grand plans in our hearts and we can see them come to fruition in our minds eye. These images and hopes and dreams are crystal clear; we know what we have to do and how we have to do it to achieve our end goal.…
Why?
I am being haunted by Why’s, Why this? Why me? Why now? And they chase me down and create a tightness in my chest, Suffocating me. Preventing me from seeing happiness, From being able to bear the sight of it at all. Why are other people so happy when all I feel is despair?…
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