Weaving Shadows: Grief Work and Becoming Through Writing

Three Sisters' Grove Story continues...

I have re-organized the characters one last time! Do the characters in your own story need a little rearrangement, too? How is YOUR story progressing? Also... I am reading the next excerpt of the Three Sisters' Grove Story Book and have some surprises in store for you at the end! I hope you enjoy! I feel like everything is coming together, finally! Links: Three Sisters' Grove Products at... https://payhip.com/themountaingoddessllc/collection/three-sisters-grove-merch Substack for Daily Devotiona...

Daily Devotionals & Writing

This morning I realize my writing is taking another turn. Let me share with you my process to help you create your own Healing Daily Devotional and Writing Practice to Help Process Emotions, Thoughts and Reconnecting with Your Self and the World. You can find me on facebook at: #sweetestgrassrootsdevotionals / or my online blog at: themountaingoddessllc.blogspot.com / I also have an online PayPal Store with NEW Digital Offerings at: payhip.com/TheMountainGoddessLLC

Weaving Shadows: Grief Work and Becoming Through Writing (Trailer)

Somatic Healing & Writing with Daily Practice

My own beginnings in Daily Practice and how it can be utilized to create Somatic Healing in Grief Processing through Movement that gives rise to our Writing Processes. I call them my Sweetest Grass Roots Devotionals as a spin on my sacred grandmother's sweet grass blessings. You can find me on Facebook with #sweetestgrassrootsdevotionals.

Full Moon BONUS! Healing

Part of the story of how I came to Healing. This may be woven into Lady Isabella's story, stand on its own, or become part of a new thread. Only time will tell. I particularly like this one... wait for the song at the end! The song is an earlier recording... when my speech was still recovering. Enjoy!

BONUS! Singing in the Sunrise

This morning I was reminded to sing in the Sunrise to clear my mind, body, heart and soul of frustrations. This is my reset for today and I will have to make a habit of it again! The first song is one I was gifted almost 20 years ago by Spirit when in a tumultuous time of life. The second song is an adaptation of a song I wrote for my youngest son when he was defying death as a toddler. I've changed the power animals from his to my own. It seems fitting. Homework: Can you hear YOUR SONG? What ha...

Story Character Development

Hey Everyone! I tweaked the story characters a bit along with their placement in the grand scheme of their lives. I've also included Emma's back story (our Narrator), given clues and bits and pieces of my real life and how it entwines to create my character relationships. There is also a writing exercise for you to try at home! Enjoy!

Love Me Sister

Expanding the storyline to show the reconnecting process to a sense of self and the world around you in the grief recovery process. More Letters to my Sister.

Living Life Like Water

Letters to my Soul Sister(s) about Living Life in Flux in the midst of grief... with post script poems (psp) about Shadows & Banshees. What does it mean to live like water? Grief is a tricky thing. It can leave you in a perpetual state of being stuck. Like stepping outside of time for a moment... only to come back and find you have been gone for decades. Your states of existence changing, mutating, molting into ???? Join me (and my cutest little service dogs ever!) on a Journey of what it is...

Letter to a Friend: What is Grief?

Abstract letter to a friend about what it's like to live in a state of grief.

Time of Forgetting

Trying to use a newer sense of language and words to communicate what these last years have been like to live. Weaving in some older work for the nuances.

The Transformation into Weaving Shadows Podcast

Creating more focus and purpose with this podcast. Changing from Dandelion Roots to our new image of the Shadow Weaver. 💕

The Tao of Me

Exploring concepts of The Tao in relation to my journey.

Bardic Attempts of Songs and Humor...

I've been contemplating for a couple days now on how to create the old bardic style songs to keep my content "fresh". These couple songs are what emerged during my 4-5am walk-about the kitchen island. My puppies fell promptly asleep and I think I found it! Listen and see if I was successful. I think it turned out pretty okay. 😊

The Witch in the Woods & Women's Healing

This month, I am embodying The Witch in the Woods archetype as I speak to the Healing of Women. I share personal experiences to demonstrate the need and necessity of bringing back the methods of Women's Healing that were stolen from us once upon a time. This episode is also filled with real action steps you can take to help heal yourself as a woman... and to help support/heal the women in your life. This is the longest episode that I've done for this podcast, and I give Gratitude to those who li...

Poetry in Garage Boxes Part 2

Continued....

Poetry in Garage Boxes

I am still trying to digest my latest struggle living life with a brain injury with dditional complications and figuring out what to share publicly. In the meantime, i am sharing a cool old poetry contest submission that I found in a garage box while cleaning. You know what those are ;) the wall to wall boxes of papers that continuously move from one house to the next.

Grief is a Tricky little BIG thing...

I started this episode in May 2023 as a way to process my grief over my mother's death at the same time I celebrated my 46th birthday. Turns out it wasn't as simple as that, and there is so much more to grieve than just her. I ended the episode with my personal prayer song gifted to me by my spirit guides and grandmothers... because when we need help, we ask for it... and because we cannot live life always grieving. At some point we have to move forward.

BONUS!

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Twisty Mountains, Black Bats and Red Foxes...

Recovery process as a form of a healer's shamanistic death, rebirth and renewal (inherent to my diaspora ancestors).

I don't know what I'm doing...

Life has become jumbled up and messy again.

Heroine's Journey

My journey into the depths of multiple injury recoveries over the last 6 years and more specifically the decline of the last 2 years.... as poetry. The Reclaiming of Me. Of YOU. Of all of US. ❤️

The Eye Behind My Mind

Honoring the Creative Forces that move through me this season of Imbolg and the Goddess Brighid. Staying true to my poetry as a reflection of where I am at... right now.

Perfect Storm: PART TWO

Part TWO of the last podcast where communication was hindered by a snow storm. How working with a Health Coach changed my life and brain injury recovery status.

Perfect Storm

The brain is an enigma. Even scientists have barely scratched the surface of its wonders, nightmares, and how to heal it. What can be exceptional function and seemingly miraculous healing lasting for weeks or months... finally finding that Golden treatment... doesn't mean it will stick... that it will last. A perfect storm.

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

There is a crazy phenomenon with brain injuries where the brain simply forgets that which isn't openly present (in front of your face) most of your day, week, or month. As the brain heals, this can diminish over time. It's important to keep watch on your nutrition, lifestyle, and, most importantly, to keep asking for help in finding new therapies. Today's episode includes Chit Chat, Poetry and Questions to ask your doctor to make sure you are receiving optimal nutrition and supplementation while...

The mind is a wholly fragile thing...

Waking up at 4am with words seeping from spirit to mind to pen.

Living Forward

This episode is more than just transcending the grief that comes with living. It is about the hope that comes with following your dreams.

Ebbs and Flows

Life's energy ebbs and flows with the moon and tides of the cosmos. Our perceptions, goals, and struggles changing, changing, changing. Moving into the depths of the soul and the wisdom we find on the journey

Where did the words go?

Finding words this last month has been challenging, so I found some writings I did in 2019 before the covid shutdowns (and before another leg injury that must also have affected my brain again because I had no problem writing words in 2019). Any-hooo. I hope you enjoy!