By Lacy | July 2025 About six weeks ago, through the kindness of friends who gifted me a retreat certificate, I stepped into silence and renewal. My spiritual director and nonprofit coach saw my burnout and urged me to pause. I did — at a hermitage, at Pacem In Terris, named St. Theresa, inspired by…
Detaching with Love I absolutely love the work we do here at ERSM. Every day brings new opportunities to witness healing, restoration, and growth—and today was no different. I sat down with one of our disciplers who shared a powerful story about her transformation in the workplace. Just a month ago, she was regularly calling…
The way one of our members describes impostors or character lies is like going to the fair and looking at yourself in all the weird distorted mirrors. We all of a sudden see ourselves as abnormally thin and tall, or wide and short. Maybe our face is even distorted and no longer symmetrical. The truth…
LIFE MAP Directions: View this timeline of your life from birth to the present as a life map. Giving you clues to your story. Taking an Honest Inventory of our Emotional life stories: Example of the map Life Map Outline EVENT- DESCRIPTION – Ex: Birth Happy normal event 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7….
This article is a meditation exercise to help you understand deeply who you are in Christ; your inherent dignity and worth. It will take a little time, but it is well worth it! I encourage you to do it when you can devote 20-30 minutes to it, followed by 10-15 minutes to journal and reflect…
Initially, we are clueless that our unpleasant feelings are tied to our thoughts and behaviors or how we allow others to treat us. We aren’t aware that in order to avoid these feelings, we dive into our coping mechanisms. Coping mechanisms can look like: COPING MECHANISMS Cleaning Avoiding Controlling Managing Manipulating Yelling Stuffing emotions Screaming…
By the time we start working on our emotional and mental health we all have ample things to grieve. Sometimes we need to grieve our childhoods. Such as what it wasn’t and what we wanted it to be. Sometimes we need to grieve our marriages and the lost dreams of what we hoped marriage would…