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The Problem With Having a Soul in This Economy

Mar 13, 2026

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10 min read

The Problem With Having a Soul in This Economy

The world doesn't seem to have a job for me, uncertainty, and a healing love

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
Are we in the timeline where the woo-woo is real?

Mar 12, 2026

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9 min read

Are we in the timeline where the woo-woo is real?

How lucid dreams, quantum theory, and modern science are blurring the line between mysticism and truth

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
Is this worth my time and energy?

Mar 11, 2026

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10 min read

Is this worth my time and energy?

How to know when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em, and when to walk away

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
Standing in the light is the real work

Mar 10, 2026

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9 min read

Standing in the light is the real work

On overcoming addiction to just do the simple shit

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
What if we could build a new world?

Mar 6, 2026

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9 min read

What if we could build a new world?

Musings on why I'm still dreaming of intentional community, what works and what doesn't

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
I should have been a comedian

Mar 5, 2026

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5 min read

I should have been a comedian

Calling silliness back in and the greatest gift of not fitting in

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
The time I almost got waterboarded

Mar 4, 2026

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8 min read

The time I almost got waterboarded

Desire, degradation, and the moment I realized I didn’t want intensity—I wanted love

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
The medicine of the blood moon

Mar 3, 2026

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9 min read

The medicine of the blood moon

On letting my partner evolve and not pushing so hard

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
The girl with the husky voice

Mar 2, 2026

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5 min read

The girl with the husky voice

On joy, survival patterns, and returning to the one who runs through the halls

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
The black hole that daunts my being

Feb 25, 2026

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9 min read

The black hole that daunts my being

A theological examination of void, power, and ultimate reality

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
How to love without an escape plan

Feb 24, 2026

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9 min read

How to love without an escape plan

Parts work, abandonment fear, and building something that feels safe

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
Does the grief cycle ever end?

Feb 20, 2026

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8 min read

Does the grief cycle ever end?

Grief isn't a straight line and I still feel the weight of my Father's transition

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
The gift of the Orishas

Feb 18, 2026

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7 min read

The gift of the Orishas

Erasing a culture's stories deprives us all of it's gifts

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
The Gnostics and the Divine Feminine

Feb 17, 2026

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7 min read

The Gnostics and the Divine Feminine

The Holy Trinity might have been hiding the Divine Feminine this whole time

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
I am the queen of overreacting

Feb 11, 2026

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7 min read

I am the queen of overreacting

On finding comfort in God over anything else

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
The prestige bug (part 2)

Jan 20, 2026

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10 min read

The prestige bug (part 2)

How COVID reorganized what I value

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
The prestige bug

Jan 16, 2026

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10 min read

The prestige bug

How prestige became the organizing principle of my life

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
Stop being an NPC

Jan 14, 2026

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8 min read

Stop being an NPC

Neoliberal neutrality makes you manipulable and here's why

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
I'm not cultivating "community"

Jan 10, 2026

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10 min read

I'm not cultivating "community"

For the first time, I'm leaning into this and here's why

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
Incense, infants, and the end of spiritual DIY

Jan 6, 2026

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10 min read

Incense, infants, and the end of spiritual DIY

What Orthodox Christianity offers a generation burned by fake transcendence

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
Spaciousness as a spiritual practice

Jan 3, 2026

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7 min read

Spaciousness as a spiritual practice

The trauma of a life with no peace

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
Not all religions are created equal

Jan 2, 2026

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6 min read

Not all religions are created equal

And why “all paths lead to Rome” collapses in real life

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
My 2025 roundup: on tech & spirituality

Dec 31, 2025

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9 min read

My 2025 roundup: on tech & spirituality

Faith, attention, ethics, and the strange spiritual shape of 2025

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
Using your soul age to justify harm

Dec 17, 2025

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9 min read

Using your soul age to justify harm

How spiritual identity replaces moral responsibility and why the path of the heart is the way

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
Outgrowing our theology (and Vegas)

Dec 16, 2025

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8 min read

Outgrowing our theology (and Vegas)

Why modern life mistakes speed for wisdom and leaves us spiritually illiterate

Valerie Spina
Valerie Spina
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