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Ancestral memory is not always easy to identify. It is easy to acknowledge that ancestral memories live in our genes, in our blood, and in our bones, but it also ...
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Ancestral voices come to us through memories. They are ever present even though we barely notice them. Our ancestral memories tell us how to approach strangers, they tell our bodies ...
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From the book, Ancestral Impressions: Exploring Your Ancestry throught Creativity, Imagery, and Intuition by Audrey F. Chowdhury  I love to watch and read mystery stories. I like to look for ...
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Call on your helpers, guides and allies to accompany you on your journey to the ancestral realm.  from the book, Ancestral Impressions, Exploring Your Ancestry through Creativity, Imagery and Intuition ...
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Create a collage card: A powerful tool for accessing and acknowledging the ancestors This exercise is based on the process called SoulCollage®, as described by Seena Frost in her book, ...
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Create a Home Base So here we are…grab a cup of something soothing to sip and sit back in your chair, with your pen, pencil or crayon and sketch book ...
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Today I am sharing the introductory chapter of my book, Ancestral Impressions, Exploring Your Ancestry through Creativity, Imagery and Intuition.  This book has been designed to facilitate your own journey into ...
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I am resurrecting my blog, finally!  I will be posting chapters from my interactive workbook,  Ancestral Impressions, Exploring Your Ancestry through Creativity, Imagery, and Intuition . I hope that you enjoy gathering ...
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Dear Great Grandmother, I have been watching stories on the news about children being torn away from their mothers and fathers.  Little babies, who are still nursing, toddlers, preschoolers wearing ...
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Welcome to my new website!  I feel some trepidation as I step into this new phase of my life and work.  Becoming a grandmother for the first time seven months ...
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I feel greatly blessed to have known and worked with  a very special soul.  Her name was Seena Frost and she was the birth mother of the process that has ...
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How many of us struggle with our relationship with food?  We are told that obesity is a major health issue in the USA.  Of course there are many reasons for ...
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I discovered my mother's cookbooks at age 5 when I discovered one with color photos of birthday cakes.  What a find this was!  I loved looking at these pictures, imaging the cakes in ...
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Recently, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to visit the sacred sites of Uluru (Ayers Rock) located in the red desert in the center of Australia.  The first thing that ...
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I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to travel to Cuba a few weeks ago with a tour sponsored by Wisconsin Public Radio,  hosted by Dr. Jonathan Overby and ...
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The unconscious seems to delight in breaking through- and breaking up- exactly what we cling to most rigidly in our conscious thinking. (Rollo May in The Courage to Create, p ...
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Happy New Year to you! Welcome to the "in between" time.  This is the perfect time to put on your "observer hat", and  look back over the past year, or ...
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There were very few dry eyes in the audience of around 500 people in Stockholm, Sweden, as Åsa Simma joiked her name on stage in front of the International Council ...
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During my trip to Sweden and Germany with the International Council of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, I found myself drawn to the energy of the ceremonial fire which burned for ...
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 I have just returned from spending three weeks in Europe (Sweden and Germany) with the International Council of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers.  I was blessed and honored to be asked ...
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My adolescent soul was hungry for belonging and acceptance.  As I matured, I felt the longing for meaning and purpose becoming stronger...and with that came a deep dissatisfaction with what ...
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Food is the nemesis of many women and girls.  We crave it, we need it, we avoid it, we hate what it does to us, and we think about it ...
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Adolesence was hell for me. My body was out of control, and I felt so much shame of my "femaleness" that I wanted to hide. When I created the attached SoulCollage(R) ...
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   I have often suspected that having a bigger body felt safe in some odd way. This is hard to understand from the point of view of one who wants to ...
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Even though I am loving creating this safe inner hearth for my Self, I sense that some parts of me are saying "Not so fast!" I feel the resistance in ...
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Hestia" says to me: " I am one who has built a fire in your heart. I am here, waiting for you to come home where there is warmth, comfort, ...
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I was born in the 1950's.  My ideas about home and Mom and nurturing and comfort live in that era. My body came of age in that time. I often ...
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Like many of you, I have spent most of my life at war with my body.  I didn’t like it.  It seemed to make me a target as a child: ...
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