Hello Friends, Welcome to Spiritually Healthy You. We have one fundamental conviction: people were meant to connect to God through their bodies, not despite them. 

By learning more about Spiritually Healthy You, you are joining a movement towards becoming a whole person. We’ve created this site as a touchstone between the sacred and the ordinary. We recognize that we’re creatures, made of both dust and the very breath of God. Ultimately, we believe you are designed for an integrated life of body, soul and spirit. At Spiritually Healthy You (SHU), your mental and physical well-being are in constant conversation with your spirit. We believe we can’t develop one without influencing the other.

HEAD: Enrich YOUR Mind for a Reflective Spirituality

Often times we think of spirituality as “airy fairy” or a hyper emotional experience. Although we embrace the mysteries of God at SHU, we also affirm the Christian faith’s long history of critical thinking and deep theological reflection. For this reason we found integrating psychological insights and scientific research create a more grounded spiritual life in the real world. We affirm that wherever there is good, there is God.

Spirituality doesn’t have to fear the sciences, but can embrace them as partners in deepening our soulwork

Developing into a spiritually healthy person requires grit and grind, science and psychology, theology and sociology. Without critical thought on our spiritual experience we will lack depth and risk standing on unsafe ground. Come with us as we explore mind-body medicine, health benefits of prayer and community, the relationship between faith and science.

HEART: Deepen Your Spiritual Maturity

Another problem in the spiritual life is called, “spiritual bypassing.” This a common term used of Christians who employ their faith to avoid important and foundational psychological development. We affirm that God is the author of adulthood and psychological maturity. To be a Christian is to be an adult with God, taking responsibility for our feelings, thoughts, and actions.  

Whatever it means to be spiritual, it isn’t less than being a mature adult. 

At SHU, the heart is kept healthy through cultivating self-awareness, developing a healthy Ego, and living an assertive life with God and his people. Join us as we journey through the contemplative tradition and through key psychological modalities that have worked wonders for us.

HAND: Ground Your Spirituality in the Body

At SHU,  messiness is spirituality’s favorite soil. It is impossible to be spiritual without the body. Try to fast, pray, read the Bible, or go on a pilgrimage without your body. God takes the body seriously calling it “good.” Our approach here is guided by the end in mind – if we will have fully resurrected bodies in the new creation, why would we ignore the physicality that God has blessed?

Whatever it means to be spiritual, it isn’t less than being physically healthy, and practically present

Since spirituality is embodied it has vast implications on our practices, our eating, and our child-rearing. Come with us as we apply the spiritual life in creation care, food, habits, and liturgical worship. Learn what it means to lean into God through your body. Find meaning in the ordinary life of parenting, marriage, and community conflicts.