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What is “Ancestral Memory” ?
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 Memories: Where Do They Live?
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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Discover Your Ancestral Detectives, Gate Keepers and Storytellers
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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Helpers for the Journey to the Ancestors
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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More Ideas for Creating Your Ancestral Altar Items
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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Preparing for the Journey to the Ancestral Realm
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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Why Take this Journey into the Ancestral Realm?
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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My Path to the Ancestors
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, Help me know the story of a refugee….
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 the New with Wisdom from the Elders
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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Remembering Seena Frost: Friend, Mentor, Muse
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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My Soul's Cookbook
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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My Soul's Kitchen: Recipes that Recapture Comfort and Joy
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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Uluru, Cradle of Life on Earth
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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New Life for Old Stuff: My Cuban Art Adventure
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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Spring Emergence: Your Creative Self Wants to be Seen
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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Giving Form to Your Dreams for the New Year
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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Beautiful Practice of the Sami People: Joiking, or Singing Your Essence
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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Gathering Around the Fire
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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Adventures with The Thirteen Grandmothers
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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Feeding the Soul by Finding My Life's Mission
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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Finding My Way with Food
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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Rewriting the Script of Adolesence
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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Defending The Vulnerable Parts
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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The One Who Doesn't Trust Me
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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Creating My Inner Hearth
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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Home Making for My Soul
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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My Quest to Create a Home for my Soul on Earth
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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