#TruthByBrenda Posts
Read. Watch. Listen.
How to Decolonize Your Grief
You’ve probably heard of the 5 or 7 stages of grief. If you haven't, the 7 stages of grief are shock, denial, anger, bargaining (guilt), depression, testing (finding your way out) and acceptance. Colonized society doesn't want you to face and live with your grief. It...
How Music Can Help You Create Healthy Habits
Did you know that music can help you create and maintain healthy habits? Even if you are experiencing grief, trauma or sudden, unexpected life transitions, you can use music to help you get some relief while you sneak in and maintain healthy habits. How? Our brains...
Tips for Chronic Pain Relief
Your pain isn’t who you are but rather a part of your experience.
What to Do If You’re Feeling Scattered
I’ve got some tips for you that come from a lifetime of trauma, grief and spiritual connection… and from Nature, Spirit and Science.
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...
