The Why
The Human Space exists to facilitate emotional and spiritual transformation through contemplation, connection, and exploration through written media.
Your humanity is welcome here.
“Where you are understood, you are at home.”
John O’Donohue
The Human Space is passionate about creating judgment free spaces where we can explore our humanity, finding grace and compassion in the cracks of life as opposed to shame and disdain.
As we lean into our humanity, we lean into God. It shouldn’t be surprising, but we experience God through the very humanity He created.
Authenticity
Authenticity guides us towards true connection. We show up as our true selves, and celebrate the true selves of others.
Curiosity
A stance of curiosity acknowledges there is much we do not know, and we open our hands to explore and discover.
Humility
Humility is the acknowledgement of the truth of who we are. The strengths, the weaknesses. The good, the painful. Connected to divinity, yet living in finity.
Our emotions, our bodies, our minds, and our souls all work together to reveal some of God to us.
And yet, many of us have lived in the cognitive brain-space of thought and reason, feeling distant from God because we are unable to access the fullness of ourselves. We try to access God with knowledge and theology, and forget that God resides in us in the temple he created: our bodies.
The Human Space exists to explore the human experience of being divinely created and earthly bound, sojourning with others to find the steadiness of God in the midst of life's mysteries.
Where is God in suffering? Where is growth in pain? How do we access joy?
What does it look like to be uncertain, and is it possible that uncertainty is actually okay?
These are just some of the questions we’ll explore here.
If you’d like to engage in this space, please read The Human Space Manifesto.
Bold, but trembling, let us be a people who begin.
Hi, I’m Alexandra.
We tend to introduce ourselves with the qualifiers or nouns that explain some of who we are. I am tempted to do that here. I want to tell you that I am a therapist and a writer. Or that I work in church ministry but also have a small private counselling practice. Or that I drink more coffee than I should and I like to read. Or that I love conversations about being human, and I find a great deal of humour in our various quirks and shared experiences.
I don’t want to tell you that I often don’t put my freshly washed and dried clothes away until days later, and that I am terrible at unloading the dishwasher. Or that I’ve got years of therapy under my belt as a client, because my history is complex (you too? Welcome to the club!). Or that I am a chronic doubter and for someone who writes about finding beauty in the mystery, my soul longs for the black-and-white, all-or-nothing box of certainty.
None of those things feel catchy and exciting for an introduction, but they capture more of who I am:
A Human.
Finite, limited, and yet divinely created.
We love to think we can figure it out, that somehow God created us with the capacity to understand His plan in fullness. But certainty is not a path of discovery; it’s a jail cell. The second we find certainty is the moment we lose our humility.