Category Archives: Culture

Navigating Values Conflicts

August 20, 2026Culture, Indigenous Science, Relationships, Spiritual Skills, Valuesancestral trauma, core values, culture, gossip, identity, integrity, intergenerational trauma, relationships, trust, truth, truth telling, values conflictValerie Ringland

Blog by Valerie

At times I know that if I don’t speak my truth in a certain situation, I’ll walk away feeling ashamed. And yet I suspect that when I …

On Money in Two Worlds

August 4, 2026Culture, Decolonising, Indigenous Science, Spiritual Skills, Valuesancestors, capitalism, ceremony, cosmology, culture, Earth Ethos, indigenous, life purpose, manifesting, mission, money, philosophy, prayer, two worlds, unconditional love, worldview, worthValerie Ringland

Blog by Valerie

Many of us see money as a reflection of our individual worth. I think it’s more a reflection of how we are able to navigate our collective …

Accepting ancestral pain

July 21, 2026Culture, Decolonising, Healing, Relationships, Valuesancestral healing, citizenship, culture, denazification, german, germany, grandparents, greatgrandparents, healing, identity, jewish, nazi, relationships, renouncing, shame, wwiiValerie Ringland

Blog by Valerie

I recently received German denazification records for my great grandfathers and grandfather. I paid the state archives to scan them for me after finding out how that …

Mothering our Spirits

May 4, 2026Culture, healing, Relationships, spiritual skills, valuesbreastfeeding, burial, ceremony, child, culture, energy, healing, hormones, inifinity, mother, mothering, perimenopause, relationships, spirit, sweat lodge, weaningValerie Ringland

Blog by Valerie

Some days I feel like I am running a race from the moment I wake up to ensure I use my time carefully to fulfil my responsibilities …

Graceful Leadership

January 10, 2026Culture, decolonising, Spiritual Skills, valueschaos, culture, darkness, exercise, grace, leadership, philosophy, power, shadow, truth, WetikoValerie Ringland

Blog by Lukas

There are many different ways to reflect upon the tumult of world right now. Indeed, the very sense that things are particularly tumultuous is in some ways …

Parenting with Indigenous Science

July 11, 2025Culture, decolonising, Indigenous Science, relationships, spiritual skills, valuesacceptance, ancestral healing, child, cosmology, culture, Earth Ethos, emotion, family, indigenous, life, love, mental-health, mother, parent, parenting, philosophy, relationships, unconditional love, worldviewValerie Ringland

Blog by Valerie

There’s so much parenting advice, and so little I resonate with, so I thought I’d share my perspective.

Parenting is about building relationships through developmentally appropriate leadership

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Clean & Dirty Pain

February 23, 2025Culture, decolonising, healing, relationships, spiritual skills, valuesabuse, acceptance, boundaries, bullying, compassion, culture, dirty pain, faith, healing, life, love, mental-health, online abuse, online bullying, overwhelm, pain, rage, relationships, soul, soulful, traumaValerie Ringland

Blog by Valerie

I recently came across the concepts of clean and dirty pain. This is a well written deep dive if you want to read it before I share …

Transitions

January 11, 2025Culture, Decolonising, Healing, Relationships, Spiritual Skills, valueschange, culture, cycles, exercise, habit, identity, pattern, personal-development, personal-growth, relationships, transitionValerie Ringland

Blog by Valerie

Years ago when I was practicing restorative justice/discipline in schools, what consistently came up as the toughest aspect of change were periods of transition. Teachers said, when …

Material Wealth

December 2, 2024Culture, Decolonising, healing, Indigenous Science, Spiritual Skills, valuesbelief, books, Earth Ethos, existential wounds, gratitude, identity, jewish, judgment, life, materialism, mental-health, money, relationships, wealth, Wetiko, worldview, writingValerie Ringland

La antigua Biblos: El bibliomotocarro de Antonio La Cava Blog by Valerie

When I was growing up, I watched my father hoard food, books, even household cleaning items. I remember the pain I felt when he told me the …

Tattoos & Tradition

August 31, 2023Culture, Indigenous Sciencecultural appropriation, culture, exercise, history, identity, indigenous, Indigenous Science, tattooValerie Ringland

Blog by Valerie

Deq (tattoo) - Wikipedia This blog idea came to me a while ago when I read an article about the revival of Deq, a traditional tattooing technique in Kurdish and …