Blog by Valerie Often the term ‘sorcery’ is used negatively, but any manifestation of a spirited, emotive thought or prayer can be considered sorcery. As Shaman Chiron Armand says: “[T]he word sorcery implies control one wields or seeks to wield…
Blog by Valerie – a final chapter shared from the book that was just written Being authentic, centred and grounded means having awareness of our core values and doing our best to en-live-en them through our life choices and forms…
Blog by Valerie – hope you enjoy another book chapter! Initiations are rites of passage ceremonies marking existential life transitions. An important one across Indigenous and Western cultures is the transition from spiritual child into spiritual adult. Abagusii scientist Mircea…
Recently Lukas and I welcomed our daughter into this wild world. We won’t be posting any photos of her to protect her privacy, but here is one of us with her in my womb. More people are becoming familiar with…
Here is another chapter from the book I am writing. I hope you enjoy! Blog by Valerie Some years ago while working with practicing Jews and Christians, I realised the underlying process many of them were continually going through: judge…
Here is another chapter from the book I am writing. I hope you enjoy! Blog by Valerie As Diné (Navajo) historian and lawman Wally Brown says: You can never conquer fear, it’s always going to be there…Walking in beauty involves…
Blog by Valerie Cloud Clearer As some of you know, I have been writing a book (or it’s being written through/with me may be more accurate language ), so I have felt less inclined to blog. Today I thought I’d…
Blog by Valerie Estrangement is something we rarely talk about, and to be out of active relationship with one’s family of origin feels very stigmatised and taboo. Even after many years of accepting this reality for myself, I still feel…
Poem by Lukas All around me And inside me Flailing Flailing across the medicine wheel But only the fix-it mental mind in charge of change Leading our growth. Ideas, always ideas. Never just isness Always the changing sky with its…
Blog by Valerie In social environments, it seems to feel proportionally less safe to be oneself the farther we identify from collective norms and ideals. There is a concept in mathematics called ‘regression to the mean’. It is basically the…