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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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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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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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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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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…
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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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HAPPINESS is WITHIN YOU
I wish you happiness! Elbert Hubbard, a well-known American writer, and philosopher, said “Happiness is a habit – cultivate it.” This means you have control over your happiness. You can train yourself to be happy. The most important thing to understand is happiness like, a spark can ignite into something big within you. Don’t wait…
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