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  • Chasing Happiness Summer 2023

      This blog is inspired by something I read recently. Leisure, freedom from responsibility, down time,  being carefree. These are the words associated with being on a holiday. As a wife and a mother,  I  am a worrier , particularly as my husband is experiencing health challenges.  Some of my responsibilities  are I set out…

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    August 8, 2023
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  • WE ARE NOT GARBAGE; SOMEONE KNOWS SOMETHING And CHOOSES  TO REMAIN SILENT  

      In this blog are my thoughts on the matter of Missing and Murdered Indigenous women in Canada. (MMIW) Caution: reading this blog may be triggering to some. My intention for writing this blog Is to motivate and inspire you, the reader to want to make a difference in this matter. You might think, how…

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    July 21, 2023
    Missing Murdered Indigenous Women, MMIW
  • 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
  • Is Indian Medicine Real?

    Francis Mitchell Before my son was born, I saw a Navajo medicine man, Francis Mitchell in New Mexico, to help me conceive. Hubby had had a vasectomy before we got married and he had it reversed 16 years later when we got married. A reversal is less successful the more years since the vasectomy.  It took five years before I…

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    June 18, 2023
    elder, Medicine, Shaman
  • Create Space to be Authentic

    My  blog today is inspired by a blog that I follow. Check Antony’s blog  here https://tonysbologna.com/2023/05/30/embrace-your-boldness-how-to-find-the-magic-behind-the-mirror/ When I lived in  Edmonton Alberta,  I drove like a  speed demon. One summer, I had my license suspended,  for 30 days because I had too many speeding tickets. I  drove a cute  convertible Italian sport car; an Alfa…

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    May 31, 2023
    Coaching, Education, family, land Back, Life, Life, Life Goals, Life Skills, Speak up
    Indigenous values
  • 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
  • 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
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