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I encourage people to walk with their hearts open. It's a big ask as it can be emotionally painful. We’re living in a world that can break your heart. Just following the news and working in a hospital, my heart gets broken on a daily basis. So how do you walk with your heart open in ...
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I suspect a lot of you watching this video have worked with being more authentic, true to yourself, and speaking your truth. When you're true to yourself and what you're feeling, you can act from that place. It takes a lot of courage to be yourself, especially in our culture where it...
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Intuitive learning is the learning of the body. This becomes useful as we start going through life with an open heart allowing ourselves to feel and trust our intuition. With intuitive learning, the body is learning by getting a feel for it rather than learning with our intellect.
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About 30 years ago we gathered to do ceremony during the Summer Solstice. We often begin such retreats sitting around the fire doing a sharing circle pondering such questions as, What's in your heart? What have you been experiencing? Or, What are you hoping to awaken during this retr...
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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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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...
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What determines if your heart is open or closed at any given moment? When you get mad at someone, do you close your heart to them? When you're attracted to someone, do you open your heart to them? When something triggers you, do you close your heart and shut down?
So is it my true n...
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want to talk about sacred space. The way I'm using the word sacred here is when something is really precious and matters a lot to us. It's something that we're willing to stand up for and take action over because it matters that much.
A question that's often asked is, “What is sacre...
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I want to contrast two different intentions for doing something. The first of these is more strategic in that we're doing something because it's productive and brings value to our lives. For example, we take a job because it's going to bring more abundance to our family, or we go to ...
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So I want to talk about engaging people for the purpose of connection. By engaging, I mean reaching out to them and initiating an interaction with them. It’s being vulnerable and saying, “Hey, how's it going?”
People are generally wary when someone reaches out to them. They’re often...
