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I've been noticing a tendency for us to evaluate ourselves based on how other people respond to us. This really becomes critical when we're being honest, speaking our truth, being vulnerable, and having a new view of something.

When we offer this new view, we look into people's eyes...

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I've been working with finding the flow of my life in my personal spiritual practice. I work part-time at the emergency room in Bend, and as it turns out, working in the emergency room can be a really good indicator and teacher if I'm in my flow or not.

Yesterday I asked a nurse for...

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I want to start with the possibility that you are way stronger than you realize. True strength is accessed when you go inside yourself and find your connection to life. You are in alignment with life, and life can flow through you.

I want to contrast this with what I'm going to call...

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All the conditions are here for it to be a very emotional week. We had the time change this past weekend and it’s election day, a full moon, and a lunar eclipse on Tuesday, the day this blog comes out. I'm told it's a beaver blood moon?! I'm going to focus on the time change and the ...

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I want to talk about noticing that someone is in your sacred space that you do not invite to be there, or you could say when someone invades your sacred space. I listen to so many of my clients in sessions and sharing circles and notice that there are these uninvited people in their ...

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I want to start with a story that happened many times in my work with my teacher. I would be voicing a complaint to my teacher about how someone that I was relating to was not reliable, responsible, or whatever else. totally listen, get this big smile, and say, “Well, what were you e...

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The bear is the Spirit Keeper of the West in my tradition. The archetype of bear medicine is pure strength. When we do ceremony, I call in the bear medicine in the west, I often say, "The bear has no natural enemies, so it can be the clown of the forest."

In other words, it can be i...

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I want to talk about a pattern that came up during our Sharing Circle on Thursday night. The pattern is to withhold who we really are, and then we get hurt that people don't get us or know us.

The things we may withhold include our true feelings, how life feels to us, speaking our t...

This is the second of a two-part video series on smudging. Last week we talked about how effective smudging is a partnership between you and Spirit. Spirit provides the energy, magic, and healing energy, and your intention directs and moves that energy.

I want to continue with that this week by tal...

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I want to talk about what's actually happening when we smudge. One of the misconceptions is that all the power and magic are in the smudge. And yes, sage and earth energies are very powerful, but we can't just light the smudge and expect the smudge itself to do its magic.

It’s much ...

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This Thursday, September 22nd is the Fall Equinox and also the first day of fall. In many spiritual traditions, especially aboriginal, earth-based traditions, this is celebrated as a really powerful time to tune into yourself and the earth.

One way to talk about the Fall Equinox is ...

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We're conditioned to view the most important parts of ourselves from outside of ourselves. We look to other people, experiences, and our culture. We look to whether we fit in or not and if people are happy with us. And we look to whether we’re successful or not according to the terms...