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 …
Tag Archives: myth
Central Myths
Blog by Valerie
The human mind is a story-creating meaning-making machine, and as we get to know our minds better, we uncover beliefs, values, and stories underlying our thoughts and …
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 …
Stories, beliefs & their shadows
Blog by Valerie
“The story owns the storyteller.”–Traditional wisdom shared by the Nhunggabarra people (western NSW, Australia)
Like all biased humans, I am predisposed to see certain things whether they …
Our Primal Nature
Blog by Valerie
Right now it’s easy to feel survival fears, to observe deeply ingrained panic behaviours and to hear people talk about ‘these strange times.’ I understand the sentiment, …