Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior
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“The Correction: When God Awakens the Ones Who Fell Behind”
There comes a moment in every soul’s long journey when the story it has been telling itself begins to unravel, not because the story was wrong, but because it was too small. For lifetimes, perhaps thousands of them, you may have imagined yourself as spiritually gifted, spiritually advanced, spiritually chosen — someone whose sensitivity or intuition or mystical experiences set you apart from others. You may have believed that your insights were evidence of elevation, that your suffering was evidence of depth, that your longing was evidence of destiny. But what if the truth is far more humbling than that? What if the very sense of “specialness” you have carried is not a sign of spiritual mastery but a sign of spiritual immaturity? What if the Creator has not been lifting you up but shaking you awake? What if your awakening is not a crown but a correction?
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warriorabout a month ago in Humans
The Moment I Understood
Back in the late 1980s, after my youngest daughter Hilary was born, life required a kind of rearranging that only new parents truly understand. We didn’t want to put her in day care — not because there was anything wrong with it, but because we wanted her to have a parent at home, someone steady and familiar. So I switched to nights at the hospital, trading daylight for fluorescent lights and the unpredictable rhythm of the Emergency Room.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warriorabout a month ago in Humans
Raised Without ‘No’: The Generational Crisis We’re Now Paying For
The Generational Fracture No One Wants to Talk About Millennials were one of the first generations raised in households where both parents were working full‑time outside the home. This shift happened rapidly in the late 20th century, and families had no blueprint for navigating it. Parents who grew up with stay‑at‑home mothers suddenly found themselves juggling careers, commutes, and the pressure to “do it all,” while still trying to raise emotionally healthy children. In the exhaustion and guilt created by long work hours, many parents overcorrected.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warriorabout a month ago in Humans
