Category: Life

• Gaming Life – is the Opposite of Victimhood

  I listen to a podcast this morning May 28, 2023,   of former Chief Business Officer  of Google X, Mo Gawdat.  author  of Solve  For Happy; Engineer Your Path To Joy  The sudden and tragic death of his son  at 21 set him on a path  to make a billion people happier.   His view validated how…

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  May 28, 2023

  Awe, death, Life, Life Goals, Life Skills, love

  Happiness

• Awe is always around Us

  What does it mean to be awestruck? Do you actively cultivate awe in your life Kelter) As an Indigenous person, a Dene. I am gifted vibrant oral stories passed down for generations and our traditional ecological knowledge, we are intrinsically part of ecosystems. The Importance of nature, trees, green space. Seeing sunrise and the sunset…

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  May 24, 2023

  Awe, death, death, death, intention, Life, Memorials, Mother Nature, Natural laws

• Thoughts and Prayers …  And Indigenous Land Acknowledgments.  Meaningless Words? 

  While I accept the gesture of someone saying my thoughts and prayers are with you when I experienced a loss in my family, these words don’t really comfort me.  And yes, I understand they are meant to comfort.  Meanwhile, I began noticing people acknowledging they are on Indigenous territory, on TV news stations, and at…

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  April 30, 2023

  Empathetic Witness Podcast, family, Healing, Indigenous spirituality, land Back, Life, Mother Nature, Natural laws, Residential School, Stories, Trip to Luezan Tue

  family

• Let’s Chat

   Can  We Talk? From the time we are born society  imposes expectations on our behavior.  2-year-olds are often described when they misbehave in public as throwing a tantrum, after all that’s expected of  a 2-year-old, and it is tolerated.     Societal  has other expectations  for our relationships. For example, being raised in an Indigenous family I…

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  April 25, 2023

  Life, Life Skills, parenting, Relationship, social Media

• OUR EGO IS A JERK And SETS US UP TO FAIL IN LIFE

  life will present you with people and circumstances to reveal where you’re not free” -Peter Crone AKA the mind architect.  “Nothing is either good or bad it is thinking that makes it so”- William Shakespeare. If you have been following me you will know  most of my  insights, come from podcast, reading, and listening to…

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  April 14, 2023

  Coaching, family, Healing, intention, Life, love, parenting, Relationship, Relationship Goals, social Media, Trauma

• How I Imagine Stuff – I Don’t

     What is in people’s Mind? Could be nothing at all “I tasted it, and that was all I got. A one-time deal. I can’t taste it again in my imagination.” -Brian Leibold   It is like that for me too  because I have what is called aphantasia. It was discovered in 1880. The term was coined…

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  April 11, 2023

  aphantasia, Dreaming, Dreaming, Imagine, Life

  Memory, Mind

• Dog Days of Summer Dene Style

  Welcome to my Dog Days of Summer Dene Style blog. When I pick a subject to blog, I am careful to not portray victimhood, at the same time, I don’t exaggerate. After all, hardship is not synonymous with victimhood. I like things to be simple, straightforward, and balanced. If you read my blog to the…

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  March 13, 2023

  Doghead, family, Life, love, parenting, Stories

• Denesuline Therese Deranger – May 08, 1919 – February 12, 2016 The last Traditional arranged Dene marriage.

  She was born into this world at Old Fort, Alberta on May 08, 1919. Eldest child of 11 Children, 2 sisters and 8 brothers. she got married just after turning 15 on July 1933 in Fond du Lac (Isadore Deranger) and became a widow on April 4, 1992 in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Born into an…

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  February 10, 2023

  Awe, Doghead, Education, family, Life, love, Memorials

• 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 Seventh Generation Indigenous Foundation and Training GIFT…

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  February 3, 2023

  death, Education, elder, Healing, Indigenous spirituality, intention, Life, Life Skills, love, Memorials, Mother Nature, Natural laws, Relationship, Seventh Generation Indigenous Foundation and Training, Stories, Trauma

  dedication, Life, seventhgift, Traditional knowledge

• Family dynamics is difficult to navigate at times. Ditch the Negative Talk.

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  January 16, 2023

  2022, Cooaching, intention, Life, Life Skills, parenting, Relationship Goals