Holly Buhler

A Practice of Presence: Choosing Slowness in a Busy Season

Lately, I’ve been returning to a single word: slowness. As my schedule begins to fill with commitments to my church community, work, school, and creative projects like writing, I’ve felt the quiet pressure to keep up, to stay productive, and to say yes while there’s still space available. But my intention in this season is…

Grief in Art: Creating Through the Range of Our Story

Every person carries a range of experiences within their story…joy, loss, beauty, confusion, hope, and grief. Sometimes these experiences feel too large to hold inside ourselves alone. Art becomes one of the ways we give shape to what we carry. When grief is present in our lives, creativity often becomes a place where that emotion…

Gentle Breath: A Simple Practice for Coming Back to Yourself

In the middle of a busy day, it’s easy to become disconnected from our bodies. Stress gathers quietly, in our shoulders, our jaw, our chest, until we suddenly realize how tense we’ve become. A gentle breath practice can help us return to awareness, release some of that tension, and reconnect with ourselves. This short exercise…

From Reaction to Reflection: Tools to Strengthen Emotional Communication

The Thought–Feeling–Action Cycle Every experience has a thought, a physical feeling, an emotion, which then often leads to an action (or reaction). Example: By pausing to identify this pattern, we can interrupt it by replacing automatic reactions with conscious responses. 🖋 Journaling Prompt:“What situation recently triggered a strong emotion in me? What was the thought,…