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the Cognitive Heart
What would life look like if we paid more attention to the Cognitive Heart that lives in each of us? I attended a funeral service recently where the cause of death was described as ‘cognitive heart failure’. The speaker hesitated on the words and (admirably in my culturally-conditioned perfectionist opinion) moved on. My OCD brain…
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Join Self-Centred in the Kin Keepers’ Haven
We all deserve access to abundance, rest, joy and justice. As creatures of nature, it is our birthright. Capitalism and all systems of oppression rely on our disconnection for their survival. Connection is the antidote. Joining Self-Centred Self-Centred is a space for unlearning capitalism & soothing your nervous system When we slow down and listen…
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She is Risen
When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up? When I was 5 it never occurred to me that I couldn’t be whatever I wanted to be… Poor deluded Catholic school girl that I was. So when my kindergarten teacher asked us to draw what we wanted to to be…
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It’s not over – we can choose community care over harm
It’s not over: “Covid is a mass disabling event”?~ Imani When you know better, you do better. Systems of power want us to believe that Covid is over. It’s not “The cultural messaging, and the ways that we’ve been manipulated into not caring for each other in our behavior around (Covid) is serving to massively…
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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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Are we there yet?
Self-Centred Newsletter – December 31 2023 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 Are we there yet? In 2021, when the social media trend was to choose a word for the…
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Join the Caucus of Crones in the Kin Keepers’ Haven
Join the Caucus of Crones in the Kin Keepers’ Haven Are you over the age of 50?Do you identify as femme or non-binary?Are you a culture maker, caregiver, kin keeper, world changing witch?Do you crave a space for cultivating leadership and authority around age & aging?the Caucus of Crones may be the space for you…
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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…