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Kathy Coffey

Kathy Coffey, mother of four, authored Hidden Women of the Gospels and Women of Mercy (Orbis). She gives many retreats and workshops; her favorite is a mother-daughter retreat.
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Advance Preparation

Kathy Coffey April 4, 2023

Reflect It’s easier to act compassionately when coming from a spacious place than from one constrained by fear. Thus it’s possible to prepare for a

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Just Like Us

Kathy Coffey March 25, 2023

Reflect We often try to stuff or deny our own loneliness or pain. But if we befriend it, we see we’re not the only ones

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Care of Creation

Kathy Coffey March 16, 2023

Reflect We need not only appreciate the gifts of earth, water, and air, but learn to care for them.  If we simply fear climate change

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I’m Fine, Just as I Am.

Kathy Coffey March 5, 2023

Reflect It’s harder to show compassion if we disconnect from our own wisdom and experience, perhaps rejecting some part of ourselves we think shameful. The

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The Cycle Repeats

Kathy Coffey February 27, 2023

Reflect Scientists who study the brain know that the practice of compassion gives us “feel good” chemicals. MRI scanners show that compassionate mindset and action

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