“And I have an admiration for the people that I work with, because I know it was hard for them to get therapy, to overcome their sense of embarrassment, as if there’s something wrong with having a mental illness. And yet they come in and they gift me with their presence and they gift me with their stories and they gift me with the chance to try to help them.”
Read MoreLook at your life. Examine your habits. Honestly assess that nifty little screentime function on your phone. Have you made the changes you want? Have you decreased the overall time you spend looking at a screen every day? If you haven’t, and you have the desire to change that, this is for you. Here are four steps to help you reduce your daily screentime.
Read MoreOne of Shannon’s favorite podcasts to listen to.
Read MoreThe art, the pleasure, of building your own library attaches specific books to your soul. You make them your own, not only by reading what is written in them, but by touching them often, being perennially reminded of their lessons, marking them with your own thoughts, and committing them to your entire being.
Read MoreStephen Saunders, professor of Psychology at Marquette University, explains how Martin Luther dealt with mental health and how that practice was directly derived from Luther's theology.
Read MoreOne small silver lining in the midst of this crisis is that we are now in an excellent position to learn from those who lived through such harrowing events and then to apply their hard-earned lessons to our lives. One such individual was C.S. Lewis.
Read MoreAnd so, through all this, entrenched in both spiritual and physical disease, we come to another Good Friday, the Day of days, the culmination of the Great Battle.
Read MoreShannon and Katie share their favorite pieces of advice for baking with a sourdough starter and the recipes that have worked best for them.
Read MoreThis is what I want to see in modern classical music – ingenious effort expended to draw in the listeners, in the process exposing them to the best intellectual music the world has to offer, and making them better, more appreciative listeners in the long run.
Read MoreClick to listen to our first recorded conversation. We discussed how we developed the idea for Penelope’s Loom, where the name comes from, and then we jumped right into a conversation about Woman’s Craft, feminism, and what we think of when we hear the term womanhood.
Read MoreBaking bread renews and generates humility in my prideful heart. It is difficult to make good bread by hand and it requires great attention to someone else’s word and to the dough. Mastery takes patience, care, and a good bit of failure.
Read MoreLinks for dabbling a bit and just diving in. This is in no way complete or comprehensive.
Read MoreLinks to our favorite translations of these great works.
Read MoreLinks to our favorite collections of myths, fairy tales, and legends.
Read MoreThere is wisdom beyond measure in a woman learning from other women what has been passed down since time immemorial.
Read MoreMaking that confession is tied inexorably to the next step - learning something new. And that is nothing but pure joy.
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