People often think of ‘initiation’ as having to do with an entrance into a religious or spiritual order or in relation to coming of age or puberty. In reality, life has many initiations as life is made of initiations and the space between them. Since life is initiation, many...
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Essential Oils for the Chakras
Essential oils can help deepen and increase the intensity of energetic practices like chakra work, meditation and anointings. For practitioners, they can help you get the results you want with a client’s session faster, allowing you to reach more people in less time and helping you have the stamina...
All About Carrier Oils
What’s a Carrier Oil? A carrier oil is an oil with a neutral smell that is derived from a vegetable that is not volatile. Carrier oils do go bad because of the compounds they contain and generally have a shelf life of about six months to a year. Each...
Giving Powerful Blessings
Anyone can give a blessing, whether it be speaking kind words over a person, delivering a spiritual blessing, or helping someone in need. Spiritually, blessings are a way for people to connect to the divine and spiritual worlds. There are many ways to give a blessing, but that connection,...
Performing a Funeral for the Self
Ever wondered who would come to your funeral? Most people wonder what, if any, impact they are having on the world. Though I caution you to not define your worth by who approves or feels something for you enough to show at your funeral (or any other life event),...
A Letter to Myself
I was recently interviewed on the spiritual nature of being third gender. As a part of that summit, I was invited to write a letter as myself today to the self I was during the time of intense struggle over this issue. Before submitting the letter, I sent...
Healing Potential in ASMR
In the upcoming book Become Your Strength, the next edition in the Talking Stick Diaries series, we talk briefly about Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) and how watching a few videos online can help a person with healing mother issues and the acceptance of gentleness and love. There...
What Exactly Is Witchcraft?
After a lovely conversation with a very Christian woman on whether or not essential oils were witchcraft I came to the realization that most people don’t know how to define witchcraft, let alone know how they feel about it. We have a culture in which the witch is...
Smudging 101: Plants Used in Smudging
This is post three in a four part series on smudging. To start from the beginning, see the first post here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/smudging-101-introduction-rebekah-gamble?trk=prof-post Plants in Smudging Plants are my favorite. I am fortunate to call several trees and herbs my first teachers, and as I realized others did not...
Smudging 101: How to Smudge
This post is part of a four part series on smudging. To see the first post, “An Introduction to Smudging,” use this link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/smudging-101-introduction-rebekah-gamble How to Smudge Smudging is not just burning plants in a room. First, you must understand that you are using the smoke, not the...
Smudging 101: An Introduction to Smudging
This post is the first in a four post series. The next post, “How to Smudge,” can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/smudging-101-how-smudge-rebekah-gamble The man lit an absurd amount of white sage in an abalone shell in the middle of the room. As the plant matter burned down, I asked “What are...
Finding and Caring for Your Frame Drum
We work with drums often in my classes, whether that be using them for musical reasons, trance work, journeying, healing, or group rituals and certain ceremonies. Often people will find one of the drums they work with really calls to them and works with them. Others will go...
Is a Balanced Life Possible?
Is a balanced life possible? This is a loaded question for some people. For those of us in America’s estimated 11% of people who work 50 hours a week or more, it gets even harder. Balance doesn’t look the same for everyone. Personally, my body cycles like a teenager...
Inflammation: Calming the Inner Fire
I think of inflammation as part of my inner fire. Just like any house fire, you want a healthy, warm fire in the fireplace, not something that burns the house down. In the modern world, we’re seeing a lot more houses burning down through problems of chronic inflammation than...