Category: love

• Lighten your Emotional Baggage

  I am a former residential school student. Overall, my experience was uneventful, in that I had no trauma but also no major excitement. A favorite memory is when we went to Dorey lake for the weekend. It was exciting to play in the hills and to be outdoors in nature. I wonder at times if…

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  June 26, 2023

  Coaching, Education, family, Healing, Life, Life Goals, love, Relationship Goals, Residential School, Stories

• 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

•  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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  May 13, 2023

  Addiction, Coaching, elder, Healing, Life Skills, love, Relationship, Trauma

  love

• 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

• 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

• Season Two Empathetic Witness Podcast

  “You must  be willing to give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” ― Joseph Campbell A Hero’s Journey One might wonder with literally thousands of podcasts in excistendence why did I create Empathetic Witness without any experience. Season One of Empathetic Witness produced seventeen (17) episodes and…

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  February 25, 2023

  Education, Empathetic Witness Podcast, Empathic Witness Podcast, intention, Life, love, 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

• Darling you are Love

  Today, I am feeling wonderful, grateful, and content, one Month into the New Year. Tomorrow is February, love month. Lol   For years I never celebrated Valentine’s because I viewed it as a stupid holiday. I felt that those that didn’t have a Valentine would feel more isolated and alone because so much commercialization was…

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  January 31, 2023

  family, intention, Life Goals, love, Relationship