Tansi! ~Greetings
Kokum is Cree for Grandmother. This "Den" is a safe place to do our Good Work together. Healing Circles & Ceremony.
Somatic Experiencing, Shamanic & Indigenous Healing & Hypnosis. Email or Website is the best way to reach me!!! Tansi my name is Monique Wilson aka Monique Karhiio Wilson. Karhiio is a Traditional name from my Ancestors, I have adopted it. Kokums' Den is what I call my healing room. It is a safe, comfortable place where I live & work. I offer several modalities; Somatic Experiencing - a trauma informed body centered therapy, Integrative Hypnosis, Indigenous Healing & Teachings, Energy Clearing & Healing, Mediumship & Readings. The Spiritual (Shamanic) Work includes; Negative Thoughtform Clearing, Ancestral Lineage Healing, Clearing & Lifting Spirits from your Home & Energy. I offer these skills integrated in session, or individually. All my work is trauma responsive. � I began offering this kind of support long ago, answering a rape crisis line. I continue to do this Good Work with compassion, for others & for myself. I have spent the last 3 years formally studying the science of the effects of trauma on the human nervous system. Life changing learning for sure. I apply & teach this knowledge when I sit with you.
12/09/2025
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11/28/2025
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11/12/2025
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11/12/2025
Newsletter from Monique Wilson
~Rememberance Day~
10/21/2025
Yesssss!!!!
Our Elders teach us that we... (First Peoples of Turtle Island) have always been here. 🤲🏽💖🤲🏽
For generations, the Blackfeet Nation told a story: their ancestors had roamed the Montana plains for nearly 18,000 years—long before settlers, maps, or fences existed.
Historians dismissed these accounts as myth or mere storytelling. Oral traditions weren’t seen as reliable history.
Then, in 2022, science finally caught up. DNA analysis revealed the Blackfeet’s lineage diverged from other Indigenous groups about 18,000 years ago, matching their ancient oral history.
This wasn’t just a minor detail—it validated a form of knowledge preserved without written records. The stories passed from elders to children survived millennia, carrying undeniable truth.
For the Blackfeet, storytelling was more than entertainment. It was a vital tool for teaching survival, preserving identity, and maintaining a deep connection to the land.
Every hill, river, and valley held memories tied to specific stories—each one anchored in reality, now confirmed by science.
This discovery challenges us to rethink how we value history and whose voices get heard. It asks: What other truths might be hidden in oral traditions around the world, waiting for us to listen?
The Blackfeet story shows that history isn’t just written in books—it lives in stories, songs, and memories passed down through generations. Maybe it’s time we all start listening more closely.
10/13/2025
"Real wisdom, like real love, knows its limits. It trusts that other people will carry the stories we cannot."
We cannot be Warriors for EVERY cause, it is just not possible to do this... and be in Balance, be Well. I love what Rob has to say about this. His words are eloquent & honest. Love that about him!! ❤ And, in my own words... it shows Respect for an issue to focus your time & energy on it. Not to lump it in with every other injustice, but to single it out and shower your love, attention, anger, thought and voice on it alone.
What a Gift.
And maybe you are able to do this for several issues, over time.
Maybe there is only ONE issue you speak to... every time.
However you use your voice, is YOUR choice.
Hy Hy!! Thank you my Sibling for choosing to use it!!! 😉
When I challenge white supremacy, someone protests, “You’re ignoring class oppression! You’re not intersectional enough!”
When I write about global warming’s effects on coral reefs, someone replies, “Why don’t you mention deforestation or plastic pollution?”
When I speak up about police brutality, someone yells, “Why don’t you talk about domestic violence or human trafficking?”
When I share a piece about the suffering of factory-farmed pigs, a commenter retorts, “What about the children starving in Gaza?”
When I celebrate women reclaiming their bodies from centuries of shame, someone says, “But what about men’s mental health?”
When I critique corporate greed in Silicon Valley, a critic says, “But Wall Street is worse! Why ignore them?”
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When we speak, we carve a small sculpture out of the infinite. Every utterance is a narrowing, a slice of attention through the great blooming, buzzing confusion of existence. To say anything is to choose, and to choose is to leave out.
“It’s not possible to say EVERYTHING every time you say ANYTHING” is an epistemological truth and a spiritual hygiene principle. It reminds us that focus is not exclusion; it’s the price of coherence.
If we try to mention all suffering every time we name one, all beauty every time we praise one, our speech collapses under the weight of impossible inclusivity. The result isn’t compassion but paralysis.
Our culture’s moral discourse often mistakes breadth for depth. Many believe that mentioning every possible angle proves fairness or intelligence.
But deep justice work and deep artistry depend on specificity. Each act of attention—to a person, a wound, a species, a joy—honors the sacred particular. To name one injustice isn't to erase the others; it's to hold one glowing fragment of the world’s pain and say, “I see you.”
The quote also protects against a subtle form of ego inflation. The fantasy that one could ever speak for everything is the voice of the inflated savior or the anxious perfectionist.
Real wisdom, like real love, knows its limits. It trusts that other people will carry the stories we cannot. It believes in the ecology of attention—the idea that when each of us tends one corner of the garden with sincerity, the whole Earth is nourished.
So when critics cry, “But what about all the other injustices?” the answer isn't defensiveness, but clarity: “Yes, they matter too. And now, I’m speaking to this one.”
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Adjustments for CoVid19.... I am working from my Home. I am able to offer full, wise & accurate Readings. I am able to offer Shamanic Healing, Insights & Teachings. And I am able to offer Clinical Hypnotherapy. I can do this with a combination of technology...Phone, Skype, Duo and Digital Recordings. In fact, clients are saying that at this current time? They are appreciating the privacy, having a Recording to go back over, and the ability for us to still connect visually through video calls. Win-win. Rates are being adjusted to budgets...as I am fully aware that resources may be strained at this time.
Kokums’ Den is the safe, comfortable place where I live, and do healing work. We are blessed with a gorgeous acreage that is 15 mins. east of downtown Maple Ridge. Kokum is one of the Cree words for Grandmother. I am Haudenosaunee & Nêhiyaw Michel Band #137 - Cree, with French & Irish Ancestry running in my blood as well. ;)
What is my work? Spiritual Healing, “Shamanic” Healing, Energetic Healing & Clearing, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Readings, as well as Teaching & Ceremony. I began learning & gathering skills for the purpose of healing in 1999, almost 30 years ago. I am still learning, still gathering and yes, still teaching.
The work that I do is a fusion of all that I have learned.
There are Traditional Elders & Indigenous Healers, worldwide, from many Nations, who offer to teach healing techniques and understandings to others, willingly and openly. I lift a Prayer of deep Gratitude for them. So many dedicated, loving and generous people changing the World. I was taught by Elders and Teachers from many Nations...Katzie, Cree, Tibetan, Mayan, Celtic, Tahltan, Coast Salish...as well as Goddess & Womens’ Wisdom Traditions... I have great respect for them. I also give thanks to the modern Teachers of what is called “Shamanic” Healing...it takes courage, bringing spiritual healing to your people in a climate that denies the importance of the Soul.
I also thank the experts in the field of Clinical Hypnosis, professionals who teach their techniques because they see the value of sharing what works. Hypnosis is a fantastic way of accessing the healing power of our own minds....because sometimes it really is just a matter of changing the way that we think, and feel. The links between the patterns of our minds, our emotions and the dis-ease in our bodies is undeniable. This is powerful Work.
I raise my hands in Gratitude for the teachings of the Energy Healers, the Reiki Masters, Healing Touch Practitioners, Traditional Healers, and the Hands On Healers that clear stagnant and blocked energy from our fields. Pulling out what we no longer need, and offering revitalization. People all over the world have been practicing this kind of healing since the beginning of time. These generous Healers kept the Wisdom alive, and now we have many beautiful people doing this Good Work.
I am grateful to be living, working, and playing on the Ancestral Lands of the Katzie People. I wish to honor a 12 year relationship with Katzie Elder, and my relative...Uncle Mel Bailey. He not only supported my work, he trained me to some of his ways of healing. We sat together in the Cedars, under the Eagles, and in our Kitchens, becoming very close. He is a member of my family, and it was said that I am now one of his. Hy’ch qa!! My hands are lifted to you, and lifting you Uncle. Prayers for your People, your House, and your Family.
My name is Monique Wilson, and I am called to this Good Work. I am blessed by everyone who has shared their Knowledge, Medicine, & Craft with me. Including those who have come to me for help, or Healing. I thank you for your trust, and for teaching me as well. Feel free to contact me for more information or clarity. My email is the best way: achievingpeaceofmind@shaw dot ca (the dot is spelled out for security reasons)
