There is magic that happens when you harmonize your thoughts and actions with your dreams. If you pay attention, while you might at times experience doubt or anxiety or fear or sometimes all three at once, you will notice that over time, and relatively quickly, you will be experiencing excitement, joy, contentment, and a smile…
The mind is an amazing thing. We use it to make meaning out of our experiences and then extrapolate from that meaning an understanding of things beyond our experience. We imagine what could be possible and then set ourselves to discover if that is true, making more meaning, understanding the world just a bit more,…
It is common for people to talk about the Earth, meaning the ecosystem we live in as well as the planet we are on, as our mother. The metaphors and symbols used include putting things into her, her being the creative resource for all life, things bursting forth from her womb, water being her blood,…
It’s called an essentialist view when we define women or men based on their biology. While it is part of the mix of who we are and how we perceive things, if it is seen to determine how we will think or act, if it’s seen as the be all and end all of who…
It’s simple to categorize all Native American and First Nation peoples as if we are all the same. And by the same, I mean like the fantasy images of plain tribes people who movies and TV and books and posters and art have created. Where all of us wear fringed leather (women in white because…
I was in a conversation recently where a peer, out of the blue, stated in ringing tones that men were active beings and women were passive, receptive, emotional, artistic things. I had to work not to let my jaw drop in public. Are you kidding me? In all of my life, I don’t believe anyone…
For decades it has been portrayed to us that women becoming empowered, becoming equal, becoming ‘non-traditional’ was somehow challenging to men, ‘us vs. them’, and a new facet of the War of the Sexes. Because there is a finite amount of power in the world and if women had some, then men couldn’t have it. …
It may seem like a mystery to you now, but before you came into this embodied life you preplanned what you wanted to do and be and achieve this time around. In fact, you worked long and hard to map things out. Does that mean that everything is predestined and can be seen laid out…
There are a lot of practitioners out there who work with a technique or a practice and have been doing so for years. Soul healers, massage therapists, acupuncturists, aura readers, tarot readers, you name it, there are people out there practicing it. And that’s a very good thing. Because all of these skills and perspectives…
We are social animals. We relate to each other in such a variety of ways that we create categories of relationship just to be able to sort through them, much in the way we use the word ‘chair’ to define an infinite array of seating options. And as much as we work to define relationships…