I’d been saved from a very bad time by stumbling into centering prayer by way of Cynthia Bourgeault, Richard Rohr, and others, but had lapsed pretty badly when outside forces put more demands on my time. My daily contemplative prayer was almost impossible to wedge into a significant schedule change at work (lunch was no longer my own time, which had previously allowed me a daily thirty minutes without work or parenting obligations), and my practice stagnated and felt like a struggle - though the sessions had become natural, I was suddenly having to strain against way more invasive thoughts. After fighting it for a few days, I gave it up as something I couldn’t do anymore.
This podcast brought me back around, and things fell into a more natural flow than ever before. So, with some 90 of them already recorded, it’s become my go-to “pep talk” for the morning commute, and they carry me well through the day.
I do recommend a bit of background in contemplative practice before beginning here. Brian Russell’s Centering Prayer is a good primer, though many others also can do the job.