What Are You Tending?
A brief pause to pay attention to what shapes you • A Mindful Communication Prompt
Has it been a crazy week? Feeling a bit overwhelmed and discombobulated?
Here, have a SloDo.1
SloDos are an invitation to mindful communication, an opportunity to open channels of awareness within ourselves, between each other, and with the divine. Grab your favorite note-taking tools and take a few minutes to turn aside from the noise and listen for the clear signal. Here’s this week’s prompt.2
What vision of the good life animates your daily habits and goals—not the life you say you want, but the one your actual practices reveal you’re pursuing?
What are you tending? What small, growing things have you committed to care for, regardless of whether they make you impressive?
What have you been practicing for so long that it’s simply become who you are?
What did you find most helpful in this reflection? Most challenging?
Let these questions serve as invitations to awareness - follow the thoughts that resonate most for you and see what comes up.
Sometimes our awareness reveals systems that aren't working—communication patterns that drain us, routines that fight our design rather than support it. If this prompt surfaced a specific frustration you're ready to address, Systems Therapy might help.
Let’s be hopeful, creative, and wise—together.
Shalom,
SLODO noun THING (📢 slow-dough): a reminder to slow down, pay attention, and practice mindful communication.
Being formed into the person we want to become asks that we get to know ourselves, and allow ourselves to be truly known by others. SloDos provide a short break to help you gain some perspective on interactions and conversations from the last few days.
Also: I work from within the Christian tradition, and understand the divine as the trinity of father, son, and spirit. That said, I know we all have different ways of understanding the divine, so if you wish to insert [other] when I use that phrase, please feel free to do so.
