Engaging our creativity is a way to ground ourselves, find strength and connect in community. Creativity can offer opportunities to shift perceptions, ease difficult feelings and provide solace. It sustains us, helps us feel fully alive and makes an opening for joy in the midst of everything. Rev. April Frazier is a Board Certified Chaplain … Continue reading Creativity as Resistance

Aikido is a martial art, as well as a philosophy and a spiritual practice. There are lessons we can take from our training on the mat out into the world. Aikido teaches us to practice centering, while providing a real avenue for choosing peace and impacting the world for the better. Rev. April Frazier is … Continue reading Early Lessons from Aikido: A Way Toward Peace

There is a loneliness that comes from hiding our true selves and keeping silent about what we need. By risking speaking our truth with persons we can trust, there is the possibility of connection, which can break down the barriers of isolation, leaving room for the freedom and beauty of transformation. This is a vision … Continue reading Risking Transformation