by debra | Mar 11, 2022 | Ancestral Healing, Shamanism
Ancestral healing can be many things depending on what is needed by the family system. It can be as simple as acknowledging and honoring the love, joy, and triumphs of our ancestors along with their pain and struggles. When we offer compassionate witness, wounds and...
by debra | Mar 11, 2022 | Nature
Yesterday afternoon I took myself out to Steinke Basin for a walk. It is open for deer hunting, which begins today in Wisconsin, so it will be my last time there for a while. The last hike of the season is always bittersweet. I carry all the good memories of other...
by debra | Mar 11, 2022 | Spirituality
My senior year of college I didn’t feel ready to enter the work world, and I had no clear picture of the job I wanted. Thinking to get clarity in the meantime, I decided to put the decision off for another year or two and go to grad school. I remember being curiously...
by debra | Mar 11, 2022 | Spirituality
About five years into my shamanic practice, several people inquired whether I taught others to do what I did. Their queries stirred something in me. I said yes and committed to offering a two-year shamanic medicine wheel. After deciding that the program would meet one...
by debra | Mar 11, 2022 | Spirituality
During the first year of the pandemic, I felt lost and adrift in the middle of a sea with no shore on the horizon. All my usual routines were upended. At first I resisted. I was sad, I was angry, I was afraid what the future might bring. My life and the world around...
