Laugh More, Shine Brighter: Embracing the Fool’s Wisdom
Laugh More, Shine Brighter: Embracing the Fool’s Wisdom Video Transcript Don’t be a grumpy monkey. I’m often a grumpy monkey when I’m working too hard. When I’m refusing to rest, when I’m so caught on the various choices and plans that I’m making. I can be a grumpy monkey. That’s where the archetype of the […]
Forgotten Wisdom: The Grandmothers’ Council
Forgotten Wisdom: The Grandmothers’ Council Video Transcript It’s when they took the power away from the Council of Grandmothers, away from the wise women. That’s when the trouble started. I still remember when my Apache mama Maria told me that story. And my skin prickles every time I remember it. She said that in indigenous […]
The Dark Side of Spiritual Education
The Dark Side of Spiritual Education Video Transcript I’m afraid too much education, especially in the realm of spirituality. This is designed to indoctrinate and convince and to cajole and to own the narrative. And none of these things are actually spiritually empowering. It’s rough because in our culture right now, there’s so much judgment, […]
Guilt vs. Shame: Empowering Wisdom over Inherited Rules
Guilt vs. Shame: Empowering Wisdom over Inherited Rules Video Transcript Were you raised with some guilt? Do you still have some guilt left over? my gosh. Well, I am a Catholic from way back. And guilt is something that has followed me like a sticky business for my whole life. And I learned something that […]
From Catholic Schoolgirl to Spiritual Sovereign: My Journey Unfolded
From Catholic Schoolgirl to Spiritual Sovereign: My Journey Unfolded Video Transcript Let me be honest with you. I have been secretly a snob about sovereign spirituality even since I was a kid, since I was a little Catholic school girl. Since I was campus minister of my Catholic high school, since I was a liturgies […]
For Moms of 20-somethings: Holding on and Letting Go
For Moms of 20-somethings: Holding on and Letting Go Video Transcript This goes out to all of you moms of the 20 somethings. I am one of these moms. It’s amazing how for so long now we’ve been raising kids, like, for so long. I lives have pretty much, you know, revolved around those people. […]
What is Your Spirit Animal: Discover Your Wild Guide
What is Your Spirit Animal: Discover Your Wild Guide Video Transcript First of all, what are spirit guides? Well, they’re a metaphor for spirit. And we place form and names and personality on spirits so that we can relate with spirit. That’s our doing as humans. But this idea that we have totem animals, that […]
Menopause: A Sacred Journey of Transformation and Renewal
Menopause: A Sacred Journey of Transformation and Renewal Video Transcript Oh, sister! Menopause is a rebirth, not a death. Some of it dies. Yeah, that’s for sure. Some of our old ideas, our old operating system of pushing and stressing and forcing stuff to happen. Yeah, That dies. Yeah. Our. Our identities of, like, being […]
Embracing Embodied Genius in Menopause: Honoring Body Wisdom
Embracing Embodied Genius in Menopause: Honoring Body Wisdom Video Transcript Okay. Embodied genius. That’s the kind of intuitive genius that comes from your body. Your body really talks to you through menopause is a time when your body really starts talking. You welcome to hormonal changes. It’s the heat, the sleep. Everything’s really talking to […]
Embracing the Wisdom of Rest: Learning from Nature’s Creatures
Embracing the Wisdom of Rest: Learning from Nature’s Creatures Video Transcript Why is rest and ease hard? Why is it so hard to slow down to take your time to rest? We call it beast mode. Right. And we got pretty used to it. Beast mode. We are, like, really pushing. Really driving. But the […]