Category: Seventh Generation Indigenous Foundation and Training

• Resilience and Harmony: An Indigenous Denesuline Perspective on Life

  My family are Densuline from northern Saskatchewan. The Dene are a proud people who lived off the land hunting and fishing prior to (and even after) European contact. I am one of sixteen children: ten brothers and five sisters. When I was young, we would have Dene tea dances which involved drumming and storytelling. In…

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  August 5, 2024

  Brother, family, Grateful, gratitude, Happiness, Healing, Holy Angels, Indigenous spirituality, Indigenous worldview, Life, Residential School, Roger, spirit, Stories, Trauma, Trip to Luezan Tue, Uncategorized

• Rambling-Rose: An Inspiring Activist and Survivor’s Journey

  Rose is providing me with invaluable life lessons by example.  We don’t get to see each other often but when we do get together, her stories and laughter sustain me for months, the sub text is we love and support one another. No matter our differences we will always encourage and support each other in a loving…

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  July 28, 2024

  death, death, Education, elder, family, Grief, Healing, Indigenous spirituality, Indigenous worldview, Life, Residential School

• We Should Never Forget The Impact of Indian Residential Schools

  Dene Youth drummers There is no worshiping of idols, or of a God, only the deepest respect and appreciation for Natural Law.  What that means for me, as an Indigenous person is to respect nature, the trees, the water, the wind, the sun, and all living beings, the bears and birds to name a couple.  This is the…

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  April 14, 2024

  Education, Healing, Indigenous spirituality, Life, Mother Nature, Pain, parenting, Perspective, Residential School, Trauma

• Self Discovery is a Process  

  

  Here is an interesting fact about me, I have aphantasia, which means I cannot form images in my mind of objects that are not in front of me. When I close my eyes and try to imagine an image, all I’m left with is a blank slate, nothing but my feelings.   The ability to…

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  March 31, 2024

  aphantasia, Brother, Coaching, Empathetic Witness Podcast, family, Grateful, gratitude, Healing, Life, Life Goals, Life Skills, parenting, Relationship, Relationship Goals, self discovery

• We Don’t Know What We have Until it is Gone

  What does it mean to love yourself?  To me, it means to have gratitude for my entire body, Yes, even my limitations. When I do a gratitude meditation, I have never felt it was difficult to be grateful for what I have because of the times for short periods when I lost the use of…

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  March 3, 2024

  Alinker, Coaching, Grateful, Happiness, Healing, Life, Life Skills, love, Normal, Pain, Perspective, Walking

  gratitude, Health, Life, lifestyle, Walking

• Freedom Of letting Go  

  When I was in university after seeing a dentist he asked, do you notice you are grinding your teeth? I said no. I hadn’t noticed. He suggested I put a note beside me when I’m studying saying are you grinding your teeth or clenching your jaw? This little reminder worked wonders, as I noticed,  I…

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  November 19, 2023

  Cooaching, Happiness, Healing, intention, Life

• Navigating Life

  I’m  sharing something very personal, a  challenging situation I have had most of my life, because I hope that both my struggles and my insights may be of use to you in your life, in some way. In fact, This by far, is the most vulnerable thing I’ve ever shared on a social media platform in…

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  September 5, 2023

  Cooaching, Healing, Healthy food, Life, Life Skills, Pain, Polio, Seventh Generation Indigenous Foundation and Training, Shame

• The Ugliness Of Social Media

  It doesn’t matter to me what you believe about politics, religion, or vaccines, or if you are gay, single, or bisexual. I won’t hate you if we disagree. If we’re friends or family, I will look past our differences and look at what we have in common. At the end of the day I can…

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  July 1, 2023

  Cooaching, family, Healing, intention, Life, Life Skills, Relationship Goals, social Media

• 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

•  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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