Alix Klingenberg

Alix Klingenberg, resting her chin on her hand, smiling into the camera.

Rev. Alix Klingenberg is an entrepreneurial UU minister, writer and spiritual director. She lives in Medford, MA with her husband, son, and 2 black cats. She writes a blog called Highly Sensitive Extrovert and uses creativity & archetypes to connect to community and the divine.

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Seen from above, in light cast only by flames, a solitary person swings two "poi" fire weights on chains (sometimes called "fire juggling")

We all have our foibles; pieces of ourselves that we both admire and occasionally revile. These gifts and struggles exist in tandem.

Reflection | By Alix Klingenberg | March 4, 2020 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Acceptance, Body, Compassion, Direct Experience, Discernment, Self-Care, Self-Respect
Two people on a set, obscured in the background, while a third person holds a production clapperboard with digitial numbers.

When we can gently hold things steady, change comes from within; that’s where the real growth happens.

Reflection | By Alix Klingenberg | May 15, 2019 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Change, Community, Direct Experience, Growth, Humanism, Integrity, Leadership, Secular, Trust
A pile of empty green and brown wine and liquor bottles.

Once I quit drinking, my inner voice and I began the harder work: that of creating a life from which I do not need or want to escape.

Reflection | By Alix Klingenberg | January 2, 2019 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Addiction/Recovery, Body, Change, Direct Experience, Discernment, Health, Humility, Letting Go, Self-Respect, Vulnerability
Figures from a nativity creche, including an adult figure gazing at the infant Jesus

We come together tonight to remember the history, or the myth, that says hope was born in the form of a baby named Jesus. What is so compelling about the story of Jesus’s birth, his life, his love? Why has this story reached across the ages to us while so many others have faded into history?...

Opening | By Alix Klingenberg | May 31, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Belief, Birth, Christianity, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Hope, Identity, Purpose, Unitarian Universalism
a view from the ground, looking up, at the tops of evergreen trees with a starry sky above. A warm glow of campfire is reflected off of the trees' trunks.

Spirit of Life, Earth and Sea and Sky, Place of deep longing in my heart Find your way from silence to voice Give me strength and courage to speak truth through my life For I am a creature of the Universe, small but infinite A momentary body in the sea of life, and also the sea itself I am a...

Prayer | By Alix Klingenberg | May 31, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Acceptance, Awe, Connections, Contemplation, Earth-Centered, Identity, Nature, Prayer Practices, Strength, Unitarian Universalism

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