Good morning…
How wonderful it was to receive an email yesterday from my friend Kitty Crenshaw, co-author of the book The Hidden Life Awakened, creator and keeper of the website hosting the wisdom of Christian mystic Betty Skinner. Since the spring of 2007, my life has been intimately shaped by Betty’s uphill climb through the valley of debilitating depression to the mountaintop of healed wholeness with God.
Below is a personal invitation extended to us all.
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Dear Friend of The Hidden Life Awakened,
We are back with wonderful news!
The gift of Betty Skinner’s life and words continues to expand in miraculous ways! We are so grateful you were among the first to have been impacted by her love and vision.
As she says in The Hidden Life Awakened:
From the depths of our common humanity, this cry of the heart emanates and resonates. Whatever our given lot or chosen path, we have a deep sense that there must be more to life than we are experiencing. And there is so much more. There is treasure hidden within our soul; it is our true self—the person God perfectly and wonderfully created in His image to love and to do His work in the world (Jeremiah 29:11). We haven’t learned how to access and live out this reality, though, because throughout our lives we have all been wounded. Innocently and unconsciously, we have walled in our hearts with layer after layer of thick casing for protection, creating another self—a false self—keeping our true self hidden from others and obscured from ourselves; moving us further and further from the perfect freedom and peace we were created for. We then wound others and those we love out of the embedded fear, shame, and unhealed pain of the false self we have constructed. Jesus came to show us that the ineffable Mystery, whom he called Father, is Christlike: all goodness and full of suffering love. He came to tear down the walls that divide us from ourselves and from each other, create new ways of seeing, and remind us of our amazing heritage as God’s beloved children. Now He waits longingly for us to dare to trust Him enough to joyfully and fearlessly put our hand in His and make the choice to travel inward, uncovering and recovering our true self and our “life hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3).
In Betty’s day, science didn’t yet know how to heal the mind and emotions, but through deep suffering and tenacious trust in God’s help, she intuitively forged a path to healing and wholeness. Thankfully, science is now providing illuminating research on proven methods and techniques for how to focus the mind, release depleting emotions, make life-giving and relationship enhancing choices and savor the good in our lives. All are documented as inner levers for “renewing our minds” (Romans 12:2).
We are excited to offer an opportunity to pursue a one-month pilgrimage with Betty, guided by Cathy Snapp, Ph.D. and Geralyn Russell, integrating her vision with the neuroscience and positive psychology of lasting, sustainable transformation from Path2Green, an award willing emotional resilience program.
Path2Green is an innovative evidence-based model for personalized health and well-being, having been published and presented at over 30 international and national conferences. During this pilgrimage, Path2Green will be integrated with the wisdom of The Hidden Life Awakened. You will learn tools and techniques for finding peace and satisfaction in your home, work or worship and understand how your feelings, thoughts and choices impact your physiology and vice-versa. You will learn how to apply science and scripture for:
o Loving communication
o Unconditional love of self and other
o How to practice the presence of God, moment by moment
o How to shift and activate better feeling thoughts
o How to transform conflict
o Creating micro goals for sustainable change
o Growing our capacity for experiencing more and more of the “peace that passes understanding” (Philippians 4:7)
Join us for what promises to be a transformational journey into our true selves, through Christ.
The Path2Green Awakened training program will include self paced learning as well as live sessions on Zoom. It will run from February 5-March 5, 2025.
Click on the link for more information and to sign up:
https://www.mbnsystems.org/personalized-health/copy-of-train-the-trainer-coaching-pr-1
Thank you for all of your love and support—we can’t wait to be with you!
Kitty Crenshaw, Cathy Snapp and Geralyn Russell
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Now checking out the link and exploring the program description, I feel drawn to sign up for this month-long Path2Green pilgrimage.
Might you also prayerfully consider joining us?
Do not allow this world to mold you in its own image. Instead, be transformed from the inside out by renewing your mind (Romans 12:2a, VOICE). What a transformative gift this new Path2Green program promises to be!
…Sue…
