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Why Am I Talking About Grief?

Body TheologyFebruary 10, 202634Views 0Likes 0Comments

There's been a shift in what I talk about on this blog, and first off, I want to reassure that I will still be talking about spiritual storytelling, and that is my focus. But there's one thing I realize both as I go through my own spiritual care, but also help others is that grief…

Somatic Work To Release Stress

Horse Wisdom, nervous system regulationJanuary 17, 202656Views 0Likes 0Comments

Horses instinctively know how to move stress and discomfort through their body. Of course this doesn't mean that we need to stop looking for discomfort or not treat them, but when they are in a stressful situation, such as dealing with a higher member of the herd pecking order, they will often use different movements…

Spiritual Care is Person-Centered Care

Body Theology, Spiritual CareJanuary 16, 202657Views 0Likes 0Comments

One of the main foundational points of body theology is that we are whole and complete as we are and that our bodies are divine. It's a way of thinking about the body and of the self that is rooted in radical acceptance and liberation theories. The medical field calls it person-centered care, though they…

Incorporating Horse Wisdom into Holistic Spiritual Care

Horse WisdomDecember 27, 202566Views 0Likes 0Comments

Part of nurturing the human-animal bond is incorporating the wisdom that these creatures share with us into our systems of holistic spiritual care. Remembering that holistic spiritual care is care for the whole being, all aspects and on all levels, then we can begin to look around us at the natural world and see how…

What Horses Have In Common with Yoga and Reiki

Horse Wisdom, reiki, YogaAugust 2, 2025210Views 0Likes 0Comments

I've often talked about having a lot of tools in my toolbox to help people in uncovering their authentic selves through spiritual storytelling. Being an alchemist, I like to bring different things together to see how the energies work or how it feels. And the part of my mind that's still tied too much to…

Regulating The Nervous System Takes Time

Horse Wisdom, SafetyMay 10, 2025177Views 0Likes 0Comments

When you purchase a horse from a kill pen there often isn't much history that goes along with them. When I adopted Holly, I was told that she was in foal (She wasn't, just a big mare.) and that she had worked in a feedlot pushing cattle. I have my suspicions on her breed (Probably…

What’s In Your Spiritual Toolbox?

spiritualityMay 9, 2025450Views 0Likes 0Comments

Deconstructing your spirituality to find something that works for you in a little like pulling out a junk drawer and dumping it upside down on the kitchen floor. You'll find things that are useful that you may have forgotten about, and you'll pick those out of the pile and put them back in the drawer.…

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How Spirituality Soothes Anxiety

embodied being, Healing, spiritualityFebruary 21, 2025423Views 0Likes 0Comments

As the temperatures are finally turning warmer after an extremely cold week this week and I can start to breathe a sigh of relief that I got myself, my spouse, the horses, chickens, pigs, (not to mention the cats including the two strays I trapped and have inside so they didn't have to brave below…

Episode 5: Why Regulating Your Nervous System Comes First

Podcast (Feathermane Soul Wisdom)February 3, 2025354Views 0Likes 0Comments

There are three things that have to go hand-in-hand for us to step into our authentic, embodied selves. The first two are authenticity and embodiment. The last one? Nervous system regulation. If we're stuck in fight or flight mode, then we're not going to be able to unpack the stories that are keeping us from…

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The Ways in Which Spirituality Creates Safety

Healing, Safety, spiritualityJanuary 31, 2025375Views 0Likes 0Comments

When I was going through my dark night of the soul after spiritual abuse, just thinking about spirituality didn't feel safe to me. The idea of contemplating spirituality, blogging about it, talking about it, being public with it in the ways I had been prior to the abuse (now over a dozen years ago), filled…

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How Being Stressed Affects Spirituality

embodied being, spiritualityJanuary 10, 2025290Views 0Likes 0Comments

We don't often think about how stress affects spirituality, but along with anxiety being in a disregulated nervous system state can affect your spirituality. Let's talk about how spirituality and your nervous system are connected and why I'm a huge proponent of ways to relax, find some serenity in the middle of a hectic day…

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One Big Reason To Connect With Your Higher Self

spiritualityDecember 13, 2024252Views 0Likes 0Comments

No matter what you call it -- higher self, soul, inner wisdom -- there's one big reason to connect with your higher self. And that's because it can help you examine your inner stories and trust yourself. I work with a lot of people who have a hard time trusting themselves, and I understand because…

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Stepping off Capitalism’s Hamster Wheel For A New Beginning

anti-capitalism, re-story-ation, storytellingNovember 29, 2024242Views 0Likes 0Comments

My relationship with my anxiety has changed. It's like at some point in the past six months or so, I've created a new beginning for myself through my re-story-ation process. Rather than being a vibrating mass of fear and worry, now that I'm focusing on being an embodied person, I sense the changes in my…

Tag: emotional regulation

Why Am I Talking About Grief?

Somatic Work To Release Stress

Spiritual Care is Person-Centered Care

Incorporating Horse Wisdom into Holistic Spiritual Care

What Horses Have In Common with Yoga and Reiki

Regulating The Nervous System Takes Time

What’s In Your Spiritual Toolbox?

How Spirituality Soothes Anxiety

Episode 5: Why Regulating Your Nervous System Comes First

The Ways in Which Spirituality Creates Safety

How Being Stressed Affects Spirituality

One Big Reason To Connect With Your Higher Self

Stepping off Capitalism’s Hamster Wheel For A New Beginning

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