Choosing the Right Shamanic Practitioner or Teacher: Your Essential Guide When embarking on a spiritual journey, it’s crucial to find the right shamanic practitioner or teacher to guide you. With the increasing popularity of shamanism and plant medicine, it can be challenging to know where to start. This comprehensive guide will explore core shamanism, and…
Read moreSpirituality in Recovery
The pathway towards healing and reintegration from drug and alcohol addiction therapy is a highly complex and intimately individual process. At the heart of this process, often found to exert a considerable influence on an individual’s journey towards healing, is spirituality. This article will delve into the profound importance of spirituality in the process of…
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Shamanic Healing & Addiction
In the realm of shamanic healing, a central concept is ‘soul recovery,’ which focuses on the reintegration of dissociated aspects of the self. This idea shares similarities with the views of addiction as a consequence of a lack of spirituality found in certain addiction recovery models. Spirituality can be considered a reflection of an individual’s…
Read moreVarious Approaches to Addiction
As a mental health practitioner, I understand it’s relatively easy to identify the visible consequences of substance abuse, such as financial difficulties, career setbacks, and strained social and family relationships. However, when seeking effective solutions for substance-related and addictive disorders, I encourage individuals to explore the hidden aspects, the unseen elements, and the intangible factors…
Read moreThe Positive of the Past
I understand that feeling stuck in a problem for a long time can be frustrating and exhausting. Therefore, it is common to question if coming up with a new approach or seeking advice from outside sources is the solution. However, it is important to acknowledge that there is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, and…
Read moreGuest on Cancer-U
Last summer, I was a guest on the podcast Cancer-U. It was a great conversation, and the host touched on several topics left undiscussed in other interviews about my book “This is How it Feels to Heal, a shamanic journey through cancer, recovery, and life challenges.”
Read moreA November of Gratitude
11/1/2022-11/30/2022, free. I am filled with gratitude as I invite you to join me for a November of Gratitude. This is a month of thanksgiving where we take time to appreciate all the blessings we have in our lives. Every morning, I will share a daily prompt to help us cultivate a sense of gratitude…
Read moreAre you Ok? Evaluating your life; an invitation
The last couple of years have been challenging for everyone, and as we continue living our lives in a seemingly uncertain world, it is easy to get lost. When things are not going right, perhaps something is holding you back though you wish this were not the case. Unfortunately, a lot of the time, we…
Read moreStigma in Addiction and Recovery
Let us speak of the veil that shrouds the truth of mental illness, for it is a challenge that many face, yet few speak of it with understanding and compassion. The stigma that surrounds it is a remnant of the old ways, where those who did not conform to society’s expectations were cast out and…
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