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Ten permission slips for life after deconstruction — and a five-minute practice for the empty shelf. Yours free, in your inbox, in the next few minutes.
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You didn't lose God. You lost a container that was too small.
Nobody hands you a permission slip when you start asking the questions. So here are the ones I needed someone to give me.
Ten permission slips — to have no answers yet, no label, to be angry, to grieve, to explore outside your tradition, to trust your own experience, to want something real, to go slowly, to keep changing your mind, and to walk a different path than the one you were handed.
A five-minute practice — "Finding the Alive Space," for the moments when the empty shelf feels less like possibility and more like proof.
A page worth keeping — print it, save it, return to it on the days the old voices get loud.
This is for you if you've done the honest, costly work of deconstruction — and you're standing in the middle of the room, surrounded by everything you pulled off the shelf, not quite sure what comes next. You're not in crisis. You're just quietly hungry for something real, and tired of being told that wanting it means you've wandered too far. I've been in that room. I know what the floor looks like. The hunger you feel isn't evidence of absence — it's evidence of capacity.
— Sharon Hines, Phoenix Your Faith
These permission slips are a small piece of The Practical Mystic's Path — a guided way back to a contemplative practice that's entirely your own. Opt in and you'll be first to know when the first course opens.