Category: New year

•  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

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• 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

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• 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

• 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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  February 3, 2023

  Education, Healing, Indigenous spirituality, intention, Life, Life Skills, love, Seventh Generation Indigenous Foundation and Training, Trauma

  seventhgift, Life, dedication, 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

• 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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  January 5, 2023

  Healing, Life, Life Skills, Relationship

  Choice, intention, Meditation, nature

• December 31, 2022 Leaning into Gratitude

  New Year’s resolutions: we love making them, right? We look forward to improving ourselves in some manner.  Maybe it is to lose weight or find love. Or we just want to be a better version of who we were in 2022. We believe by setting a New Year’s resolution we will get there. Does that…

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  December 31, 2022

  2022, Awe, Coaching, Empathetic Witness Podcast, intention, Life Goals, Seventh Generation Indigenous Foundation and Training

• 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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  December 29, 2022

  2022, Awe, Coaching, Life, Life, Life Skills, Mother Nature

• A DOGHEAD CHRISTMAS

   Christmas Deranger style, Back in the day!  I have fond memories of my childhood Christmases at home after we were allowed home for Christmas from residential school. When I first was put into, residential school I remember receiving a gift and attending Midnight mass in the mission.   But my happiest memory is when we went…

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  December 16, 2022

  2022, Christmas, Doghead, social Media

• My name is Authenticity     

  Years ago, my social worker friend and I drove to a First Nations community in Alberta. Along the way she shared with me stories, the loss of her husband when she was in her twenties, her relationship with her mom. She told her stories like it was possible for me to experience. I was touched,…

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  December 12, 2022

  2022, Coaching, Life, Life Skills