I Am Not Mine Own
I am not my own. My body is not mine. The boundaries of my skin hold the multitudes that began merging within me in 2010. They came...
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Ingrid Oliphant
Nov 9, 20204 min read
We Do This Together
A Facebook connection shared this earlier today, written by a third party: No one is coming to save you, but it is not because you are...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 18, 20204 min read
On Demons
I work with ‘invisible’ beings, those that most cannot see. I am surrounded by them. They span the spectrum from Ancestors to angels,...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 27, 20201 min read
Out of Outrage
I don’t know when it was I ran out of space for outrage. I can’t remember if there was a singular sudden clap of thunder-like something...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 4, 20201 min read
The Grief You are Feeling
Photo by Kat Jayne on Pexels.com The grief we are feeling is not the private sort. That exists but this is not it. What we are feeling is...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 30, 20201 min read
What If You Knew
What would change for you if you knew that a God, The God, all the Gods, wanted nothing more than a relationship with you? What if you...
Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 27, 20201 min read
Hearing the Prayer
To hear the prayer of one is to hear the prayer of all. To heed the prayer for one is to answer the call for all. Everyone has walked...
Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 26, 20201 min read
To Feel the One
To feel the pain of another is to know their heart. To feel the darkness of another is to know their heart is not dark. To breathe the...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jun 13, 20191 min read
Talking about Worship of Idols and Sexual Abuse
Gentlemen, we need to talk. We need to talk about your worship of the Virgin (she wasn’t), the Holy Mother, Durga, Shakti, Tara,...
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 18, 20193 min read
Oh, My Darling Empath
You have no idea You have no idea your desire to retreat is merely your fear of meeting yourself in another. You have no idea that your...
Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 24, 20191 min read
Afraid to feel?
Does it feel foolish to you, impossible even, that your ‘feeling too much’ isn’t that at all? Can you, even the tiniest of moments...
Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 22, 20191 min read
Oceans of Love
It often feels impossible to describe the love contained within me. Even when I cannot give it words, it frightens people. They seem to...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 12, 20171 min read
May Mercy Rise
May the grief-stricken be touched with the tenderest kiss. May the hunger for hubris be starved as love is heard. May mercy rise. May the...
Ingrid Oliphant
May 22, 20173 min read
How a Non-Deist Dances (or does the dishes) with God
When I was in the sixth grade, I saw an angel. At least, that’s what I called it. It was in the sky, it was alive, and not a bird or a...
Ingrid Oliphant
May 9, 20171 min read
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy and Merci on Me
Mercy. noun 1. compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm. or: a blessing that is...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 26, 20171 min read
Gnarly Dance
tangled up in the hair and roots get twisted across the toes, grace just isn’t there There is a fine line between a twist and shout and a...
Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 28, 20171 min read
The Fluidity of It All
You are part of the fluidity of all things just as oxygen is of you. Inner and outer are not a breath apart or away from each other. They...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jan 23, 20171 min read
On Hope and Harm
Hope, faith, justice, freedom and love do not require the disparaging of or denial another. In fact, they are the antithesis of it. Can...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jul 27, 20162 min read
“I never knew I was cherished. Until now.”
I never hungered for food as a child. I starved, though, for the love of my mother–something beyond the loneliness in the emotional sea...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 8, 20161 min read
Pat Mora’s Lessons
Lesson one The desert is powerless when thunder shakes the hot air and unfamiliar raindrops slide on rocks, sand, mesquite, when...
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