by debra | Mar 11, 2022 | Personal Healing, Spirituality
The other day a meme popped up in my newsfeed that got me thinking. It posed the question, “What’s something you say to your pets that you want to say to yourself?” An answer came to mind immediately. It’s something I often say to my cat Pippin. When she wants a belly...
by debra | Mar 11, 2022 | Spirituality
A friend and I went to a holiday concert given by Shawndelle Marks last night. The performance touched my heart. It wasn’t all Christmas music – there were other songs mixed in as well. Early on, she played Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. This song never fails to move...
by debra | Mar 11, 2022 | Shamanism, Spirituality
When we think of curses, we might think of someone casting the “evil eye” or practicing black magic. These forms of sorcery definitely happen in our world, but there are far more common, everyday ways in which sorcery occurs. It affects all of us, and we all do it....
by debra | Mar 11, 2022 | Spirituality
My fearless younger self remembers the feeling of having my whole life ahead of me. She relished the possibilities. Life was an adventure. It could lead anywhere she chose. In recent years, it’s seemed like there were fewer possibilities. For the dreams that still...
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...
