Anishinaabe
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Reign Fancy

Fancy Fancy is such an interesting word. In my mind when I hear the word fancy I think dressed up, but fancy means a lot more than just how nice something looks. Fancy is defined as: elaborate in structure or decoration, also created from the imagination rather than from life. It comes from the word Fantasy,…
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Channeling Indigenous Teachings

Channeling: to be inspired by, (of a person) serve as a medium for (a spirit). It comes from the Latin root word for reed. A reed was used as a channel, to allow things to flow from one place to another. When I start painting, I tap into a flow of energy that is coming…
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Healing Perspective

One of the hardest things about healing from trauma is changing our perspective. As a society our perspective on trauma is that it is bad and needs to be stopped. However the word trauma really comes from the root word injury which comes from the Latin word that means – a wrong. This denotes that…

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