In this episode of The Holy Wild, Victoria Loorz and Dr. Sheri Kling explore how personal trauma, dreamwork, and encounters with the natural world can become gateways into deeper wholeness and divine relationship. Sheri weaves process theology and Jungian psychology into lived stories of synchronicity, butterflies, and sacred encounters that remind us we are co-creators in an unfolding cosmos of meaning. What emerges is an invitation to trust the flow of becoming, where even separation is part of the holy dance that leads us back into connection with Earth, Spirit, and one another.

Dr. Sheri D. Kling, Ph.D., serves as the Director of Process & Faith (a multifaith network for relational spirituality under the Center for Process Studies) and is also the interim minister of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Bradenton, Florida. She earned her doctorate in Religion: Process Studies from Claremont School of Theology and brings together theology, depth psychology, mystical wisdom traditions, relational worldviews, and the intersections of spirituality and science to help individuals find meaning, belonging, and transformation. A theologian, teacher, songwriter, and spiritual mentor, Kling is a faculty member at the Haden Institute and Claremont School of Theology (adjunct), and authored A Process Spirituality: Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation; she also offers courses, concerts, retreats, and dynamic “Music & Message” presentations.

Connect with Sheri:

• Organization Website: Process and Faith
• Book: A Process Spirituality: A Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation
• Book: Finding Home: Rural Reflections on the Journey to Wholeness
• Process Pop-Up Video with Victoria Loorz

Mentioned in the episode:

• Wiki: Alfred North Whitehead
• Book: Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
• Book: Women Who Run With The Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• Book: Natural Spirituality: A Handbook for Jungian Inner Work in Spiritual Community by Joyce Rockwood Hudson
• Book: Radical Nature: The Soul of Matter by Christian de Quincey
• Book: The Archetypal Process: Self and Divine and Whitehead, Jung, and Hillman
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• Book: Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
• Book: Possessing The Secret Of Joy by Alice Walker

Connect with the Center:

• Website: wildspirituality.earth
• Victoria's Website: victorialoorz.com
• Email: hello@wildspirituality.earth
• Linktree: linktr.ee/ctrforwildspirituality
• Instagram: @center_for_wild_spirituality

Timestamps:

• 00:00 Introduction
• 07:04 Sheri's Background, Looking For Belonging
• 09:11 A Love Of Horses
• 09:53 Suburban Nature And The Golf Course
• 11:41 The North Georgia Mountains
• 12:55 Finding Comfort In Nature From Trauma
• 13:55 Finding The Divine Feminine
• 14:31 Finding Home
• 15:46 Emerging From Emotional Numbness
• 17:46 Connecting With Jungian Work
• 18:53 Deep Relationship With Place
• 21:27 Introduction To Process Theology
• 28:13 Connecting Inner Wholeness With Universal Wholeness
• 31:44 Whitehead + Jung
• 33:55 Dream Work And Syncronicity
• 42:12 Transformational Practices Of Wholeness
• 47:00 Sin And Separation As Necessary
• 51:49 The Butterfly Pushing Out
• 55:47 Invitation And A Story With A Chimpanzee