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There is immense power in embodying healing through lived experience. As I work in facilitating & healing spaces, I feel it is important to be open about …
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Jews’ Indigenous Roots
Blog by Valerie
Lately I have been working to ground some of my Jewish wounds through relating biblical stories to Indigenous cultural stories of that part of the world; my …
The Red Road
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The concept of the Red Road comes from Westerner’s attempting to understand the way indigenous cultures of North America structure their lives and see the world, though …
Peace Circles
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“Stories are medicine…embedded with instructions” that guide us about how to live our lives (Estés, 1997). Practices of talking circles, or peace circles, have emerged …
Relationships & identity
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Relationships form our sense of identity; when we are part of relationships that feel fulfilling and wholesome, we feel magnified collaborating with people around us. Life feels …
Being & Doing
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When walking the medicine wheel in everyday life, we choose where to place our focus. The lower world, the invisible, felt world of Mother Earth is a …
The Medicine Wheel
Blog by Valerie
Indigenous cultures around the world are based on a philosophy of innate wholeness of all beings. The medicine wheel is the “essential metaphor for all that is”