Mind & Spirit is a personal magazine covering faith, wellness, creative writing, and illustration. It is a space for slow thinking, careful attention, and the kind of writing that sits with difficult questions rather than rushing past them.
The essays here are personal without being confessional, spiritual without being sectarian. They are written for people who are paying attention to their inner lives — to the practices that sustain them, the questions that return, the quiet work of becoming more fully themselves.
The examined life is not just worth living. It is the only life worth writing about.
What You'll Find Here
Faith — Reflections on prayer, scripture, doubt, and what it means to hold belief with both conviction and humility.
Wellness — The practices that tend to body and mind: movement, rest, attention, and the slow cultivation of resilience.
Creative — On writing, drawing, making things by hand, and why creative expression is not a luxury but a necessity.
Reflections — The harder-to-categorize pieces: essays about ordinary days, quiet seasons, what we notice when we slow down.
About the Writer
Shirley Xu is a writer and illustrator based in New York. She writes at the intersection of faith and everyday life, and believes that paying close attention to small things is one of the most radical acts available to us.
When she's not writing, she's usually drawing, walking, or looking for a very good cup of tea.