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Words on Death and Nourishment from the Salmon Spirit

Blog, Digestion, Foods For Thought, Herbal Wisdom, Human Spirit, Trauma Healing

It was a few months ago that I met the Salmon Spirit. I was attending an Imbolc and plant medicine class and had an encounter with a plant that brought me on a journey to the sacred laws of reciprocity through the body and life of the Salmon. A dream message that slowly revealed its lesson through lived experiences that awakened a full awareness of my impact on the whole organism of life. (The full story will come forth as I allow myself to fully digest the gift of this insight.)

The Salmon is cross culturally symbolic as a totem of knowledge and reciprocity. The Salmon’s journey and dream is one of service and initiation. [Read more…] about Words on Death and Nourishment from the Salmon Spirit

Illness or Initiation?

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Illness or Initiation?

I was listening to one of my current inspiritors, Michael Meade, and he said something that plunged into my depths and re- affirmed this very present conversation I am having with my healing around what is really underlying my pain and trauma.

In summary he says:

“when you experience a life event that shapes the way you view and act in the world, that takes a piece of you- like severe illness or injury, death of someone so close to you, or some external disaster that rips apart a prior foundation on which you based your life- your Soul views that threshold as a signal that an initiation is about to begin”.

Be of Service- Heal This…

Blog, Human Spirit, Trauma Healing

It is not an error that you have been born
a sensitive human being,
with a tender nervous system
and a heart that is sometimes broken.

Your vulnerability is not a mistake,
but a portal back into life,
into a world that has forgotten
how to dream
~Matt Licata

Do your desires fall short of the horizon? Do your connections and presence with others waiver. Maybe you feel a mechanism wanting to orient you solidly on the Earth beneath your feet to walk in service. And a soul calling you forward but there is a fleeting quality when you get close enough to even begin articulating the contract… [Read more…] about Be of Service- Heal This…

Questions Before You Cleanse

Blog, Digestion, Disordered Eating, Foods For Thought

“Deep fasting always involves suffering. It is physically difficult. It is often undertaken because we are suffering in our daily lives and we wish to heal ourselves… All of us have taken beliefs and spiritual attitudes into ourselves that are in conflict with who we are. The important thing is to allow yourself to empty, not just physically but also spiritually and emotionally”
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner

Spring is alive and calling parts of you back to life again. What is waking up inside of you? What do you still need to clear in order to hear your inner healer and heart song?Spring calls us to cleanse as we now have a deeper access to ourselves through what was composted and returned to the Earth in the Fall and Winter- that is if you were tuning in. And, if life goes whizzing by you regardless of the seasons this is a call for you to pay a little closer attention to your process, your emotions and your physical illnesses and imbalances.

Spring’s new energy can greatly amplify what truly wants to come to life and be shifted for the greater good within you. Thus it is the main season of cleansing and beginning to look at deeper levels of fasting.

HOWEVER MANY WILL FAIL OR CRASH THEIR CLEANSE. And, in truth you can never really fail as every moment of our lives is a teacher- especially our perceived failures and disappointments.

The above quote captures the deep reasons cleansing falls short of its intended results. Many want to cleanse as a quick fix path to an external destination. And, mini 3 day cleanses, even one day fasts are incredibly healing for short and long term health. But regardless of the duration of the cleanse if you are not integrating and creating space for the holistic journey and the cleanse -on all levels of soma and psyche -then inevitably you will feel more stuck and drained- and possibly re- traumatized post cleanse.

TRAUMATIZED? Yes. This is many layered and a piece that is vital to every one choosing to cleanse.

Show Up and Heal

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Community is key to all healing. I am not saying it is the key but it is an essential mechanism in the unlocking of the doorway.

Community is how we begin to understand our place. We ALL have a place, purpose and medicine that is needed for absolute reunion of the lost ways of love that this planet and its people so desperately need. Community reflects and inspires that within you. You need reflection and reciprocity of others who are forging the good, true and beautiful path in life to understand how you dance among all other things. [Read more…] about Show Up and Heal

Winter’s Tool Kit for what Lurks in the Dark

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The darkness grows upon us as the cold calls us to stay close to ourselves- to be intimate with the interiority rather than the conditioned constancy of external doing. Quietude falls all around beckoning the heart song to fill the empty auditorium of our dreams.

Our dreams empty of their song when we ignore the all-knowing voice within the heart. The one who whispers direction to the places where we “know we can be in better relationship” to ourselves, with our close people, with our communities and our beloved EARTH. The darkness ensues as attack rather than invitation to reflect what nature is gifting at this and all times- when we continue to ignore our heart and thus shut down the real conversations within and around us. [Read more…] about Winter’s Tool Kit for what Lurks in the Dark

Your Fertility and Digestion?~ #MeToo

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“…you’d be amazed at how people get riled up about things and then slip back into the comfort of their historical privileges and their historical aporias…” ~conversation with Junot Diaz (On Being podcast).

I am not usually one to participate in the FB memes. I try to maintain a healthy boundary with social media alongside running a business. However, the palpable collective energy around oppression was laying heavy on my heart over the weekend, and I had not even visited FB- yet.

When I became aware of the #MeToo movement I was unsure where to let it land within me. I was also unsure of how I should respond- should I respond? But it didn’t need to land anywhere. It was already present within me and therefore my emotional responses rose from all of the places that have been harmed by sexual oppression and violence. It was clear that I had a responsibility to say something. [Read more…] about Your Fertility and Digestion?~ #MeToo

When Your Emotional Release Needs Release… And an aplogy to my clients…

Blog, Trauma Healing

Somatic Emotional Release- bring me PEACE.

When the body is freed to express what has been suppressed- Sweet release.

Shake- quake-tremble- gyrate

Blood sweat and tears reconnect me – Inherent-intelligent animal state

Surging from no-where to now- hear

Sounds from deep underground

My flesh and bone release raging waters to wash me clear.

I see Somatic Emotional Releases daily from my clients- it is the container and cosmology of my work. What I am about to say comes from embodied personal experience and from the sacred witness that observes these powerful journeys in others. [Read more…] about When Your Emotional Release Needs Release… And an aplogy to my clients…

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