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The Lamp Within the Body
A nine week letter series on living faithfully inside complex health.


The Lamp Within the Body Letter Two: Rest as Resistance
“If Letter One was illumination,
Letter Two is warmth.
And so I say to you this week…”

Lisa Raie
1 day ago2 min read


The Lamp Within the Body Letter One: Listening to the Body
Dear friends, There is a particular kind of stillness that arrives not because we choose it, but because the body insists. And so it is that across the next nine Mondays, I will be dropping a letter here about living faithfully inside complex health. For many years I have lived with symptoms I could not fully name. Fatigue that did not match my schedule. Inflammation that felt disproportionate. Moments where my mind felt clouded, as if moving through early morning fog long af

Lisa Raie
Feb 163 min read


The Lamp Within the Body - “a nine part series on living faithfully inside complex health…”
Over the past weeks of intentional stillness, I’ve been able to chase new information about my health complexities. What I have learned, is that my body has been carrying more than I understood ~ more than my health specialists understood! Thats all changing! I now know that the moderate sleep apnea and REM atonia conditions that I live with have likely been quietly shaping my health for many years. My specialist believes these disruptions may have contributed to the immune a

Lisa Raie
Feb 131 min read
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