by Katie Sturm | Jun 15, 2018 | Spiritual Flourishing
The more you encounter something, the more you tend to dismiss its radical nature, its strangeness, its challenges, its difficulty. When you’ve been in an toxic relationship for 5 years, you cannot remember what “normal” is anymore, and it creates a...
by Katie Sturm | Jun 7, 2018 | Events, Spiritual Flourishing
Join us Sunday, June 24, from 1-4 PM at The Relational Center RSVP Now Maybe you grew up embedded in the religious context. Maybe you joined later in life. More than likely, along the way, something happened that colored what had started as an inspiring and...
by Katie Sturm | May 9, 2018 | Spiritual Flourishing
The other night, in my own coaching group, we talked about Surrender. The big word. The one that sometimes makes you feel all heeved out because you think about giving up or raising the white flag. And I began to see how counter-cultural Surrender truly is. I mean,...
by Katie Sturm | May 3, 2018 | Spiritual Flourishing
The year was 1996… I had just moved up to Berkeley to start my first year as a student at UC Berkeley. I was OBSESSED with Sarah McLachlan’s album Fumbling Towards Ecstacy. And I was ready to give college my all. Except I wasn’t. Because I was...
by Katie Sturm | Apr 24, 2018 | Spiritual Flourishing
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what led me to the point where I was ready to give up on Church. Because I had done it before. You see, between 14 and 17, I experienced repeated trauma at the hands of the Church. First, it was a head pastor caught in a...
