Perhaps my work is still about my healing – remembering the sacred fragility, the passing nature, the end date in sight
As a celebrant, I start my weddings and funerals with the same words: “Everyone,…
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Jackie Bailey
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We can’t all be heroes, but as a species we can become more altruistic – with a bit of practice | Jackie Bailey ⊖
Humans are hard-wired to care for and protect each other. Becoming kinder is just like riding a bike
As a species, homo sapiens have a bad reputation. War, environmental pillage, weapons of mass destr…
37 days ago
My teenager is exploring her spirituality. I support her leap of faith, even as a non-religious parent | Jackie Bailey ⊕⊕
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My daughter is dipping her toes into sacred waters, seeing what it feels like to surrender and finding a sense of meaning to life that is bigger than herself
Making sense of it is a column about spiri…
4 months ago
I don’t believe in God but, as a trauma survivor, I’m learning to forgive myself | Jackie Bailey ⊕⊕
In the context of spirituality, trauma is a hand grenade. But it can lead to deeper understandings of the world
“Why me?” “Why evil?” and “Why God?”
According to theologian and psychologist Karen McCl…
6 months ago
Positive thinking can make success feel like the only acceptable option. But humility allows for grace | Jackie Bailey ⊕⊕
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Being humble isn’t about shame or self-loathing: it is the act of being present, of knowing there is room to grow
Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate e…
9 months ago
Devotional practices are core to world religions – and fan culture – but they are no longer for me | Jackie Bailey ○
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The ‘power of love’, as Celine Dion sang, keeps devotion at the centre of worship. Now that I’ve left behind institutional religion, it feels blasphemous
• Making sense of it is a column about spiritu…
11 months ago
My sister died 10 years ago. Here’s what I wish I had known about dementia when she was alive | Jackie Bailey ○
I think back to my 20-year-old self and my sister, lost in her imagined worlds, and I feel compassion for us both
When my sister was 21, she was diagnosed with dementia. She had survived a malignant b…
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