by debra | Mar 21, 2022 | Ancestral Healing, Shamanism, Spirituality
This weekend in preparation for the beginning of the ancestral healing medicine wheel, I journeyed to my family totem. The helping spirits showed me one of my ancestor grandmothers from pagan times dressed in a wolf fur with the head pulled up over her crown. It was...
by debra | Mar 16, 2022 | Ancestral Healing, Shamanism, Spirituality
Shamanic cultures honor four elements – earth, water, fire, and air. Our long ago forebears revered the sun, land, rivers, and sky and respected their power and wisdom. Each is unique. Earth – grounding, mulching Water – cleansing, purifying Fire –...
by debra | Mar 15, 2022 | Personal Healing, Spirituality
As far back as I can remember, I have not had a strong desire to be a mother. This thought crystallized in high school, when I reached the conclusion I didn’t want to have children. On my 39th birthday I revisited this to see whether it was still true. I checked in...
by debra | Mar 15, 2022 | Spirituality
A few years ago, I had been having a really good day. I was grounded and centered in my own being, and there were no pressing matters on the internal landscape. I was in a good space. That afternoon I made a quick shopping trip to Farm & Fleet. The cashier at the...
by debra | Mar 15, 2022 | Personal Healing, Spirituality
It’s hard to believe that it’s been seven years ago today that my dad died. Grief stretches and bends time. In some ways, it feels like just last year and in other ways it seems like an eternity. I’m reposting the story that I wrote several months after his death as a...
by debra | Mar 15, 2022 | Personal Healing, Spirituality
There is a timing and a flow to healing. For about a year I’ve been working with my therapist to find different ways to process trauma and heavy energy. On several occasions she suggested that I expand my energy field and create a larger container than my physical...
