Reflections
Weekly reflections from Wayfinder's Weekly - essays on navigating threshold seasons, transitions, and the messy middle between endings and beginnings.
Want longer form writing from me? Check out my two books: In Your End Is Your Beginning: A Memoir & Spiritual Wayfinding Manual and Hill Country Strong: Reflections for Healing Through the Texas Flood
Permission to Be Unmoored
Being unmoored doesn't mean you are lost. It means you are in transition. Transitions always feel uncertain before they feel clear.
Here's your permission slip for the week:
You don't have to have it all figured out to keep moving.
You don't have to perform certainty you don't feel.
You're allowed to be building something real while still feeling like you're finding your way.
The⚕️Oath: Do No Harm
In medicine, there’s a simple oath that precedes all the complexity: Do no harm.
It doesn’t mean “do nothing.”
It doesn’t mean “preserve every system.”
It means that even in moments of urgency and intervention, harm is not treated as acceptable collateral damage.
I wonder what it would mean to treat do no harm as a wayfinding principle for our communities right now; not a rule or a purity test, but a compass. Something we return to when visibility is low and emotions are running hot.
Looking at this moment with elder eyes ⭐
When we look back at old photographs, we rarely linger on what embarrassed us at the time. We don’t fixate on the awkwardness of our overbite, the way our jeans pinched us weird, or the missteps. Instead, we see past the imperfections and recognize the heart that was present all along.
Connected more than Directed: Spiritual Wayfinding versus Spiritual Direction
Many have asked, “What is Spiritual Wayfinding?” trying to classify it as therapy, life coaching, spiritual direction, pastoral care, or some combination of all of the above. I founded spiritual wayfinding as I was making my own way spiritually through life-altering events. While talk therapy was helpful, and spiritual direction as well, I found what I truly craved was a companion to hold the map for me while I figured out my own way to honor what God was calling me to within and beyond the reality in which I found myself.
✨ Navigating Life’s WTFH Moments: Embracing New Beginnings
Sometimes change arrives at us all at once, in an overwhelming way and we’re forced to navigate uncharted territory, which can feel utterly isolating when everyone around us is not focused on or not overwhelmed like you are. We might ask ourselves, “Where to from here?” or in a less polished moment, “What the f%#*ing hell?!”
What Is Spiritual Wayfinding?
Spiritual wayfinding is a guide to life’s crossroads.