Category: Newsletter
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Reading, Writing, and Wrestling
Reading, Writing, and Wrestling From the Self-Centred Newsletter January 20, 2024 – what I’m reading, writing and wrestling with Happy New Year to all those who celebrate. Personally, my body prefers the Spring Equinox as a more natural new year. Winter is for hibernating, resting, warm soups and slow yesses. That’s all to say, I get to…
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Remember Lupini?
Lupini as Ancestral Holiday Food: I was looking for a plant-based low-carb (don’t get me started) protein option & found that lupini beans fit the bill. Just 1 cup of lupini beans is a high source of protien, fibre, and vitamins K, C, and potassium. These beans were a regular staple on the holiday snack…
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Showing up messy is … resistance
Acknowledging my colonial settler privilege in living and working on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe People, in progress of learning right relationship with the land and its First People. Messy. As I type this the tears are drying on my cheeks from a big snotty cry because my grrl is leaving me again.…
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Dreaming of Blue Bears
Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23241619#file From the Self-Centred Newsletter Say what you will about social media – it’s a double-edged sword and, like most of us, I get caught up in doom scrolling for more time than I like – but I do love the ‘memories’ features that reminds me of where I was on this day last…
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Self-Centred: Solstice Edition
My self-centred journey from politics to trauma informed healing. Because the world absolutely needs changing. Solstice season is a time for shedding the detritus of the past, and clearing space for new beginnings. What better time to be self-centred? How wonderful that we live connected to the Earth and its seasons of renewal and decay…