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Grief Support for Covid-Conscious Women
How is it that grief is just a natural part of life, but society's way of dealing with it is to avoid it at all costs? For covid-conscious women, finding grief support is as complicated as the grief we are facing. Every time I ask myself how humanity has sunk to such...
How to Come Down from a Panic Attack
Trauma, and certainly panic, tend to take your breath away, or have you holding yourself so tensely that hardly any breath can hardly get in or circulate throughout your brain and body. That means you can’t access what you need to get you out of a panic attack and...
How to Know What to Do When You’re Feeling Lost
You ever been on the road with a driver who won’t admit they’re feeling lost? They keep driving and driving. The gas meter looks a little low but going to the gas station to ask for directions is NOT about to happen, is it? They’re not about to listen to anyone else...
How to Find Your Purpose
Here's a fun piece of advice to any of you who want to live in your purpose. It’s what I tell my clients when they feel like they don’t know their purpose or they're just looking for confirmation of their gifts and purpose path. This might sound a little strange but...
How to Be Supportive without Feeling Drained: Indigenous Wisdom that Changed My Life
Prioritize yourself. I know. It sounds great but how? Here’s what I mean. Many years ago, I heard an Indigenous elder tell a group of us to take care of ourselves first. It was an eye-opener. I heard that teaching over and over again by many elders, including Dan and...
The 7 Gifts We All Carry
Going through difficult times can send us into a downward spiral where we forget the gifts we all carry. The elders say we are the only ones on the planet who have forgotten our original instructions. What if your original instructions can be found within you? They...
Do I Have Resilience Fatigue?
The latest buzzword about our mental health during this time of exhaustion, confusion, frustration and sense of near hopelessness is “Resilience Fatigue.” I’m just glad our mental health is part of the conversation now. How do you know if you have resilience fatigue?...
Bring in the Light – Healing Song and Mental Health Support for the Holidays and Beyond
Video Transcript: Take a breath with me. Breathe into your belly. Hold it at the top of your breath. Flow it through and release the breath. In case you weren’t ready, one more, breathing all the way into your belly. Hold it at the top of your breath, flowing it...
The Hidden Power of Grief
We have been fed a very big lifelong lie… that grief is bad and either we need to “get over it” (stuff it and pretend we’re fine way too early) or have people doting on us trying to “fix” us. It’s a vicious circle that stems from another big lie: that we are supposed...
Pain is Not The Real Problem: The Hidden Truth about Pain, Grief and Trauma
When it comes to pain, women are like cats. My cat Pixie has been dealing with a skin infection ever since May this year. At first I didn’t even know anything was wrong… because cats and women are similar in how they deal with pain. You will rarely know when they are...
