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Nurturing Inner Growth with Lucy Tierney

Stories, insights and Self-encounter exercises to help you strengthen your intrinsic capabilities for spiritual growth, healing and balance.

August 12, 2025

Childhood catalysts for emotional response patterns in adulthood.

It can be helpful to be curious about the catalyst that got a particular pattern going in our lives. When we can hold the origin story in conscious awareness, the patterning power usually softens and lessens in intensity. This allows us to access more balanced ways of responding in the present.

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August 12, 2025

Do you mistake your patterns for “you”?

Emotional and behavioural grooves can become so deep and familiar that they become part of our identity. When we are habituated to a certain emotional response pattern, we often assume that “this is just who I am”. We are no longer running the pattern. The pattern is running us.

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August 12, 2025

SOAKING: The Power of Staying with Positive Emotional Responses.

Have you noticed that painful emotions tend to be much more “sticky” than positive ones? it is a real gift or our growth when we make a regular practice of giving focused attention to our positive emotional experiences. In doing so we strengthen our inner resources and bring more balance to our inner world.

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August 12, 2025

Compulsion vs freedom. A pausing practice for more peace.

In Chapter Six of Inner Invitations I describe two contrasting inner energy movements – freedom and compulsion. I’m inviting you now to pause….breathe…..and notice how becoming familiar with the way freedom and compulsion energies operate within you can help you to find more peace this season.

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July 27, 2025

Why universal wisdom?

What do I mean when I describe Inner Invitations as a guidebook that draws on universal wisdom? The best way for me to answer that is to tell you a story. In 2010, I attended the Spiritual Directors International (SDI) annual conference in San Francisco. There were 700 spiritual directors present from many countries. This accompanying role is not an instructive one, but one of listening and walking with someone as they discern their own inner wisdom and ask, “where is the Sacred present in my life experience?”

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July 27, 2025

An atheist, a nun and a songwriter walk into a bar…

My book, Inner Invitations, wouldn’t exist without two people – Larry O’Toole and Kathryn Overall-Cass. The unlikely partnership of an atheist, a nun and a songwriter, brought a potent energy to the creation of this book. The end result holds the potentially explosive energies of polarisation, transcended into a common bond of mutual respect and unified purpose.

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July 27, 2025

After the launch…my thoughts on Lucy Tierney’s new book.

I recently attended the book launch of Inner Invitations by Lucy Tierney with Kathryn Overall-Cass. And this is the book I’ve been waiting for. This book holds great value as a companion volume of practical exercises that ought sit next to the others on our bookshelves

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July 27, 2025

Carolyn Doherty’s personal reflections on Inner Invitations by Lucy Tierney

The words “Dare to go within…an adventure awaits” on the front cover of this book could not paint a truer picture of what was to come from the pages within. With my pencil sharpened to mark any parts that resonated with me, I soon realized that I wanted to underline nearly every line on every page.

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July 27, 2025

Kathryn Overall-Cass: My hopes for readers of Inner Invitations.

As paragraphs and pages passed back and forth between us across the virtual Tasman, I had a full immersion baptism into the originality of Lucy’s mind and the deep wisdom she holds. As we prepare to release this book out into the public square, I’ve been reflecting on the fruits I’ve harvested in this co-writing process and the hopes I hold for you – the reader who is drawn to this book.

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July 27, 2025

An excerpt from Larry O’Toole’s foreword to Inner Invitations

I’m an atheist. I do not believe in the existence of a personal god. I don’t believe that my “soul” will survive my body. I believe that when you breathe your last, that’s the end. I am an ordinary Australian bloke. I weigh too much. I wear shorts and thongs (flip-flops/jandals) to BBQs. I work in an office and laugh a lot. I crack poor-taste, politically incorrect jokes. I probably drink too much.

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