Intimacy With Soul - Core Practices That Sustain Us (Reflection Question 02)
DESCRIPTION
In this episode of the Winter Soul Care series, Alexander invites you into a gentle writing practice centered on one essential question from Francis Weller:
What core practices help sustain your intimacy with soul?
Listeners are encouraged to pause, set a timer, and write—without editing or judgment—before returning to hear Alexander’s lived response, recorded along the ocean at Huntington State Beach. Through stories of caregiving, music, silence, creativity, ritual, and seasonal devotion, this episode explores how intimacy with soul is formed not through force or productivity, but through repeated, embodied practices of presence.
This episode is an invitation to remember what has always sustained you—and to recommit to the practices that keep your inner life alive, nourished, and connected.
SUMMARY
This episode continues the Winter Soul Care series with Reflection Question #2, inviting listeners into a deeper inquiry around soul intimacy. Building on the previous walking and writing practices, Alexander offers a spacious container for reflection, creativity, and remembering.
Listeners are guided to write in response to the question: What core practices help sustain your intimacy with soul? After a pause for writing, Alexander shares his own reflection—woven with stories of godparenting, music, meditation, silence, art-making, seasonal ritual, and the practices that have shaped his inner life over decades.
Recorded at the ocean as the sun sets, this episode honors the ways soul intimacy is formed through repetition, care, creativity, and devotion. It affirms that our most sustaining practices often begin early, deepen over time, and continue to evolve—especially when tended with curiosity rather than perfection.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Soul intimacy is sustained through practice, not personality.
Writing is a powerful tool for listening to the soul.
Movement, music, and breath are early languages of the soul.
Creative expression builds intimacy long before words do.
Repetition deepens connection rather than dulling it.
Silence and stillness are skills that can be learned and practiced.
Ritual creates safety for soul exploration.
Caregiving and witnessing others can mirror our own practices.
Seasonal rituals anchor us in time, memory, and meaning.
Soul practices evolve—they are not static or rigid.
Intimacy with soul thrives in small, repeated acts of devotion.
You don’t need mastery—only willingness and return.
Community strengthens and reflects our inner practices.
TAKE ACTION
Try this today or within the next 24 hours:
Set a timer for 10 minutes.
Write in response to this question: What core practices help sustain my intimacy with soul?
Keep your hand moving—no editing, no fixing.
When the timer ends, read your words aloud.
Circle one practice that feels ready to be tended this season.
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