Easter Sunday, April 12th, 2026 at 10:30 am 

Gillian Corcoran's Talk: ""The Alchemy of Acceptance: From Resistance to Inner Peace" 😌

The Alchemy of Acceptance: From Resistance to Inner Peace explores the idea that we are not here by accident. We are spiritual beings having a human experience, and part of the soul’s invitation in this lifetime is to learn how to meet our humanity — our bodies, our stories, our grief, and our becoming — with acceptance rather than self-rejection or self-criticism.

At the heart of the message is the understanding that acceptance is a sacred willingness to stop fighting reality and allow grace to enter. Healing can begin when we tell the truth about what is, and welcome that with love. Acceptance becomes the turning point that opens the way to peace, inner freedom, and a deeper remembrance of our divine nature.

The message also weaves in the inspiration behind Gillian’s children’s book, The Golden Web, which emerged from years of witnessing in hospice and spiritual care that love continues to connect us through grief, distance, and even death. The Alchemy of Acceptance offers a gentle and hopeful invitation to remember that we are held in love, never separate from God, and capable of transforming even the hardest parts of this human life into wisdom, belonging, peace, love and joy.

In-Person and online in our Zoom Cyber Sanctuary.

"Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance" 
Tara Brach

“You being you is the blessing. You being you is the miracle. You being you is enough. You being you is your soul signature.”
Panache Desai, Discovering Your Soul Signature

"Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life," Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now