How Healing Changes the Way We Love with Spiritual Director Barb Boatner
There comes a moment in many of our lives when we begin to notice that the way we love has been shaped by pain we haven’t fully tended to. Old wounds resurface, familiar patterns repeat, and our unhealed places begin to influence how we show up in relationships.
In this conversation with spiritual director Barb Boatner, we explore how healing changes the way we love. Barb talks about learning to love from a place of presence rather than self-protection, and how pain doesn’t disappear when it’s avoided, but often leaks out sideways -- impacting those closest to us. She also shares why healing is not peripheral to faith, but central to spiritual formation.
Together, we reflect on how healing opens us to deeper connection: with God, with others, and with the people we love. I hope you'll listen in.
Learn more about Barb at http://sacred-companion.org/
Thought-provoking quotes:
“The way we love is shaped either by our wounds or by our healing.” - Barb Boatner
"Curiosity instead of judgment changes everything.” - Barb Boatner
“I can’t change what happened to me. But I can change how I relate to it. Healing is learning to stay with myself in kindness." - Barb Boatner
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Key words:
healing journey, befriending yourself, self compassion, curiosity, self awareness, emotional wounds, emotional regulation, spiritual formation, wisdom, spiritual integration, spiritual maturity, emotional health, personal growth, spiritual director, Barb Boatner