Welcome to

Open Processing

Open Processing is a blog space inspired by my time in Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). Every once in awhile my cohort would gather in a different meeting space from our usual spot and participate in an “open group”. It was a space with no agenda where we could openly express what we were thinking, questioning, and processing through our time. It was meant to be a vulnerable space to receive feedback about oneself from people who did not necessarily share the same worldview. This was exceptionally inspiring to me and I aim to create the same sort of raw processing here on the internet. However, this time it is for everyone to see. I am by nature an external processor and it’s helpful to have a place to share my (largely) unprocessed thoughts. So here I am mostly raw and unfiltered. Mostly. Views expressed here do not reflect the views of The River Community Church, CRCNA, or the U.S. Navy. They are strictly my own.