Category: Life Skills
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Recovery – a Road to Self Discovery
It can be difficult to get your groove back after taking steps in your recovery, transformation, and healing. Maybe you went into recovery because you felt your life depended on it, and there is no denying that it did. It was this desperation that propelled you down the road to recovery. Do you agree? But…
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To Honour And Respect
GIFT VISION All life is sacred. Every living being is sacred each one of us carries a sacred gift. These gifts have been obscured through colonization and genocide that has created intergenerational trauma. Substance abuse, mental health, and community and family breakdown are symptoms of this trauma. The GIFT Foundation envisions a collective way forward…
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Love Perspective
January 05 What is LOVE? (Hint a perspective) Canadian born rapper spoken word artist a poet and now an international bestselling author who writes about love and goes by Humble The Poet. this is from his new book How to be Love
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Awestruck! Is the Fast Track to Happiness and Meaning- (Dacher Keltner)
As an Indigenous person I am gifted vibrant oral stories passed down for generations and our traditional ecological knowledge. We are intrinsically part of ecosystems and connected to, animals, people, and nature. Seeing sunrise and the sunset brings awe. Walking in nature brings awe. Why not listen to music while walking in nature? Music and…
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A CHRISTMAS A TIME for REFLECTION and CONNECTIONS
We must work on our relationships to experience freedom. There is no relationship that can’t be restored with effort and when we give up our ego, and meet each other soul to soul soul. Think about that difficult phone call you made to someone you have had a breakdown in your relationship with and how…
From the Shores of the Ottawa River 