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What Are You Noticing About Yourself?
Sometimes a good question helps us see something we've been living with for years. These reflections aren't spiritual report cards. They're simply tools for noticing patterns, strengths, and places that may need some tending.
There is no score for being loved. Take one if it seems useful. Leave it alone if it doesn't.
Relational Attachment & Self-Protection
What tends to happen inside you when pressure rises?
This brief reflection can help you notice whether you tend to remain relational and connected—or slip into familiar patterns of self-protection such as controlling, withdrawing, appeasing, performing, or shutting down.
This isn't a test of your spiritual maturity or worth. It's simply a mirror that may help you notice what happens when fear enters the room.
Are My Relational Circuits On?
Sometimes the simplest question is: Am I relational right now?
When we're peaceful and connected, we can usually stay curious, appreciate another person, listen, and remember that the person in front of us matters—even when we disagree.
Under stress, those capacities can temporarily disappear. This short Life Model check-in can help you notice your current relational state before entering a difficult conversation or making an important decision.
Finding Your Face
Drawing inspiration from C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces, Terri explores how we discover our authentic countenance and value in God’s gaze—unmasking false personas to step into life with hope, dignity, and quiet confidence.
God Is Not Making You Someone Else
Spiritual formation is not about replacing who you are with a religious clone. God's redemptive purpose is to restore your unique original design—freeing you from imitation into the fullness of authentic sonship and daughterhood.
Look Up! Walking in the With-God Life
How to lift your gaze above overwhelming circumstances, let go of self-reliance, and accept the gentle divine invitation to live every hour in relational communion with the Father who walks beside you.
The Spirituality of Joy
Joy is not superficial optimism or forced cheerfulness; it is the deep, neurological experience of someone being genuinely glad to be with you. Discover why God’s joy is the true engine of human transformation.
Why We Spend Our Lives Trying to Stay Loved
Tracing our inner striving from Eden's first hiding place to modern survival strategies: why we build armor around our hearts when belonging feels uncertain, and how resting in steadfast love (*hesed*) brings peace.
The Architecture of a Safe Home
What makes a family or community truly safe? Exploring how steadfast love (hesed), low anxiety, and clear relational presence create space where people flourish.
Why God Refuses to Build His Kingdom Through Anxiety
Why urgent panic, manipulation, and fearful striving are incompatible with the peaceful reign of Christ, and how quiet trust restores true spiritual power.
When Love Is the Greatest Gift of All
Reflecting on 1 Corinthians 13 and the practical reality of remaining loving and relationally present even when performance or expectations fail.
The Sacred Permission to Play Again
Recovering holy childlike wonder, delight, and playfulness as an essential mark of emotional maturity and freedom from heavy adult self-sufficiency.
What Does Love Look Like? Relational Neuroscience & Covenant
How the brain recognizes mutual joy, face-to-face delight, and genuine presence, transforming doctrine into lived relational warmth.
Becoming a Person Who Repairs What They Break
Ruptures happen in every human relationship. True maturity is not flawless behavior, but the willingness and capacity to initiate tender, humble relational repair.
A Re-Humanized Prophetic People
Moving away from harsh, transactional, or sensationalized spiritual practices toward gentle, relational, and deeply human expressions of the Holy Spirit.
Sample of a Spiritual-Life Mentoring Session
A live demonstration and sample of a relational, formational spiritual-life mentoring session with Michael Sullivant.
Ways We Tried to Stay Loved
Michael Sullivant explores how early attachment patterns shape our lives and how Christ's redeeming love transforms self-protection into secure belonging.
The Holy Spirit and Our Mental Health
Integrating the gentle, renewing work of the Holy Spirit with nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and grounded sanity.
The Architecture of Transformation
A deep dive into how human hearts actually change: covenant belonging, right-brain joy capacity, and embodied spiritual rhythms.
A Surprising View of the Self and Pleasures
Reframing original design, the false self, and how healthy, God-given joy and authentic pleasures differ from fear-driven coping mechanisms.
New Thrust: Re-Humanizing the Spiritual Life
A vision guide outlining the shift from performance-driven religion to relational wholeness, covenant belonging, and embodied practices in Christ.
Hearing Heart Daily Chapel
Carry a quiet sanctuary in your pocket. Daily audio reflections guiding you through self-quieting, appreciation, adoration, and presencing in God's love.