What Makes You Bloom, Kevin Miguel Garcia
What Makes You Bloom, Kevin Miguel Garcia
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What Makes You Bloom
Cultivating a Practice for Connecting with Your Divine Self

Author: Kevin Miguel Garcia, Jacqueline J. Lewis

Narrator: Kevin Miguel Garcia

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/27/2024


Synopsis

So many of us are leaving conservative faith traditions behind, rightly saying goodbye to toxic theology, bigotry, and harm. But in the process, we often lose our rhythm of gathering, prayer, and worship. We may even lose our sense of connection to God. And we think it's our fault. But spiritual coach, speaker, and podcaster Kevin Miguel Garcia is here with a reminder: "We don't need saving because we were never in danger. We don't need to get found because we've never been lost. Everything we need to connect with the Divine is already inside us."

What Makes You Bloom is a guide to creating your new spiritual practice after your life or faith has fallen apart. When going to church, praying, and reading your Bible just doesn't cut it or outright disturbs you, this book will show you how to cultivate new, meaningful spiritual practices—like stillness, presence, breath, and movement—that will help you overcome the pain of your past and root yourself in the present.

Through stories, insights, and guided meditations, Garcia explains how the goal of every spiritual practice should be about the attainment of peace—about finding what truly makes you bloom. Along the way, you will discover that the smallest changes in your life can bring about the biggest transformations, and that a feeling of bliss is only a few breaths away.

About Kevin Miguel Garcia

Kevin Miguel Garcia (they/them) is a digital pastor, spiritual recovery coach, mystic theologian, sought-after speaker, and host of the podcast A Tiny Revolution. Garcia holds a master of practical theology from Columbia Theological Seminary. They coach clients from around the world through deconstruction, coming-out processes, and cultivating spiritual practices to promote resilience, solidarity, and self-compassion. Garcia is the author of Bad Theology Kills and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lauren on March 06, 2024

A supportive and nurturing read. Down to earth and peppered with personal stories and perspectives that feel relatable - Kevin Garcia can share this process because they've lived it and walked through it. I would recommend this to anyone coming out of a conservative or high-demand religious environm......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay on January 31, 2024

Hard to rate this one… 3.5 stars? Overall I appreciate the author’s messaging and work, but I think some of the assertions they posit as universally true could vary for folks with different personalities, backgrounds, etc. Kevin mentions a few times being an 8 on the Enneagram, and I wonder how much......more

Goodreads review by Maileen on April 27, 2024

Queer theologian and spiritual teacher Kevin Garcia invites readers to reevaluate deeply held beliefs about connectedness, belonging, and love in the refreshing and affirming "What Makes You Bloom." Garcia shares personal anecdotes of growing up gay in a conservative, Southern evangelical Christian......more

Goodreads review by Kali on May 03, 2024

This book is a beautiful invitation to challenge what we think living spiritually has to look like. Throughout the book, Gracia asks their reader "do you want to be well? Do you want to experience Love?" and offers several ways to do just that. Their experience coming out of toxic evangelicalism all......more

Goodreads review by Adam Curfman on June 19, 2024

I absolutely loved this book! It was a great mix of theology and practice and blended them both so well. I also appreciated how it took themes and concepts that I have grown up and gave them a little twist into something much more life giving, peaceful and loving. Plus it’s practical and has actual......more