From fear to love
Fear is often a story we inherited. Love is what remains when we become willing to look at that story without letting it run the rest of the day.
A branch of the same tree
A Course in Miracles
From fear to love — without becoming someone else.
A living home for ACIM-based classes, workshops, conversations, and study groups as they grow. The Course and the ROOTS to RISE work share a root: our experiences may shape our beliefs, but those beliefs do not have to define the rest of our lives.
I do not teach A Course in Miracles as a rulebook, and I do not ask anyone to adopt a vocabulary that does not feel true.
What I love in the Course is the same invitation at the heart of this practice: that perception is not the last word, that fear is often a story we inherited, and that underneath the stories is a Self worth returning to.
This page will grow as the gatherings grow — a class, a workshop, a quiet conversation, a study circle. You do not have to sound spiritual to belong here. Curiosity is enough.
Themes we return to
The same questions, a different language
Forgiveness as a way of seeing
Not a performance of being “over it.” A gentler perception — of ourselves, of others, of what happened — that does not ask us to pretend it did not matter.
Perception and truth
What we see is often colored by what we already believe. The Course invites a pause: is this the only way to look?
Releasing judgment
Judgment is heavy. Curiosity is lighter. This is practice, not personality change overnight.
Inner peace
Peace that does not depend on the weather of a day, a relationship, or a circumstance. The same peace the ROOTS to RISE work is pointing toward.
Returning to the Truth of Self
Underneath the stories, conditioning, and limiting beliefs is the person who was there before those stories took root. That is where this work and the Course meet.
Gatherings
This page is designed to grow
Study circles, workshops, and open conversations will be posted here as they open. Join the list if you want to hear first.
Study group · Coming soon
ACIM Study Circle
A small, paced reading and conversation gathering for people who want company with the Course.
Dates will be posted as they open. · Union, Missouri and online
Workshop · Coming soon
From Fear to Love
A workshop on the beliefs that keep us braced — and the quieter option of love as a way of seeing.
Seasonal. Join the list to hear first. · To be announced
Conversation · Coming soon
Open Conversations
Informal evenings for questions, passages, and the honest “I don’t know” that often begins real study.
Occasional · Union, Missouri and online
Be the first to sit down
A quiet note when a class or conversation opens. No flood of mail.
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The other branches
Spiritual study is one way this work lives. Coaching, style, and community are the others.
You do not have to sound spiritual to begin.
A discovery conversation is enough. Bring the Course, or bring only the feeling that something in you is asking for another way to look.