On Gossip
Blog by Valerie When you hear the word gossip do mostly negative images of talking about people when they’re not there come to mind? Does it make you feel uncomfortable? Like everything, there’s a dark and a light side to…
Category Values
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Honouring lack
Blog by Valerie It is autumn here, and at the recent equinox we did a ceremony of thanksgiving. I like to read the Thanksgiving Address of the Haudenosaunee peoples. I find it really beautiful. We also asked for a few…
Navigating Existential Judgment
Blog by Valerie Lately some protracted conflicts have come to the surface in my life at a macro level in the world, and at a micro level in my daily life. I have been praying quite a lot since the…
Embodiment
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…
Forgiveness
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…
Faith, hope & trust
Blog by Valerie Talking with a few people this week, it seems timely to share my perspective on these concepts and how I work with their energies. Though there can certainly be overlap between them, I hope clarifying the way…
Befriending our fear
Blog by Valerie “You can never conquer fear, it’s always going to be there…Walking in beauty involves encountering fears, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, and getting beyond them, so we can have joy, happiness, confidence and peace in the four…
We are Enough
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…
Gifts of Colonialism
Blog by Valerie When we grow up feeling like no one’s in our corner, that life is us against the world and we can’t trust anyone, many of us go on a journey as adults of learning how to put…