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There was a drastic change in the weather here in Ashland, Oregon, and the Pacific Northwest about three weeks ago. It went from being 55 degrees, cloudy, and rainy to being about 80 degrees and sunny. I called it instant summer, and you could really see its effect on...

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I recently got a hotel on the beach in Crescent City with a balcony looking out over the ocean. I poured a glass of wine and said myself “Life is good.” Until… I got on my laptop and noticed the internet was not working. After calling the front desk it...

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Welcome to March. We're now in the month of the first day of spring and the Spring Equinox. On the Medicine Wheel or Wheel of Life, it's a time we give birth to and awaken a new cycle of our lives. This includes the new things that we want to awaken, manifest, and create...

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I've noticed we have this tendency as human beings to hang out in this undecided state in which we defer a decision. And, we tend to do this in the areas of our life that are most important. You can understand why as it's an important decision and we want to get it right.

For...

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During the retreats that I facilitate, I sometimes offer the teaching, “How much beauty can you stand?” This evolved during several retreats I participated in where I was doing my own deep intention work with what I wanted to create in my life and the extent I was...

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Happy January! We're in the north on the Medicine Wheel which is winter time and post holidays. This represents a time of introspection where we have the opportunity to look at, reevaluate and, understand ourselves at a deeper level.

This year I've been noticing how we as...

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The essence of bear medicine in my tradition is true strength. The bear can be the clown of the forest because it has no natural enemies. So it has nothing to defend and nothing to prove. So it can just be itself. It trusts itself at a really deep level that it can handle...

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We're taught from a young age about how to accomplish something. It's often an intellectual, memorization-based approach that gets indoctrinated in school. You learn about something and take a test to prove that you've learned it.

Then when we get into the work world, we have...

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The coyote, in my tradition and in many Native American and shamanic traditions, is the trickster that helps you see the things you have difficulty accepting about yourself. He shows you the things that you don't want to look at. He does this so you accept the things you would...

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Summertime on the Medicine Wheel is a time that we try new things in our new way of being and a new way of navigating through life. We use trial and error to find out what works and what doesn't work. We discover whether the things presenting themselves to us are new doorways...

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You’ve probably experienced both sides of judgment: judging others and being judged. Today I want to focus on us judging others. Judgment, in the context of this video, is projecting something that you're not able to accept about yourself or the world onto a person,...