Soul Journeys - Greg Barringer

07/11/2025

Anyone interested in a beautiful 16’ cedar strip canoe I built when I was 17?

06/05/2025

Feeling stressed? Take a moment to reconnect with nature and all its elements. 🌿 Discover the serenity and wisdom our beautiful planet offers. Check out my new blog post on connecting to source! https://wix.to/bg3KDNL

I always feel better when I am outside, connected to nature and the elements: earth, water, air, the grass, the trees, the birds and animals, the sun and moon. We live on a remarkably beautiful planet, which has wisdom born through countless millennia.

04/30/2025

"Acceptance is not resignation or defeat. Acceptance facilitates our end to struggling with life... and moves us into the fullness of joy." Dive into the power of acceptance and liberation on our blog: https://wix.to/DiVTR8r

"Acceptance is not resignation or defeat. Acceptance facilitates our end to struggling with life... and moves us into the fullness of joy. When we accept and forgive, we become our own liberator."

04/15/2025

Last week I drove to Maine to visit with my parents and came back with this canoe, “Wahtuka 2”, which I built with my dad in 1979! We had taken it on many trips in my young adulthood, including two on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in northern Maine. For the past twenty years it’s been stored in a family friend’s barn in Hallowell. I drove it 300 miles through a snow squall to southern Connecticut where I’ll spend some time this spring refinishing it and getting it ready for new adventures on Connecticut’s rivers. Life comes full cicle. Grateful 😌🛶💜🙏🏼

01/16/2025

As we welcome the new year, let's navigate the inherent uncertainty of the future together with grace and kindness. Explore the insights in our latest post! Read more here:

Navigating the inherent uncertainty of the future with grace, agency, kindness, and presence.

11/07/2024

A note from a trauma-informed Deathwalker.

This is a tower moment.

What you may be experiencing is a normal nervous system response to a threat. You are grappling with a sense of distrust, a lack of safety. How you have responded in the past may dictate how you are responding right now. You might also be oscillating between various stages. Again, this is a normal and valid response.

Your flight response is valid (wanting to leave the country)
Your fight response is valid (building the resistance)
Your freeze response is valid (unable to move or do anything)
Your dissociative state is valid (feeling numb and foggy)
All of your feelings are valid

Additionally, this is what grief feels like. You are grieving. It is wild, untethered, loud, messy and sometimes explosive. There is no right or wrong way to grieve. Just let it move through you and feel all of the feelings as they arrive. If you feel overwhelmed or completely disembodied, here are some embodiment practices.

Get outside.
Look up at the sky and feel into the vastness of space.
Lean against a tree.
Watch the leaves fall.
Listen to the birds sing.
Smell the crisp, fall air.
Sit by a body of water.
Go for a walk.
Spend time with your beloveds.
Spend time with your animals.
Cry.
Laugh.
Scream.
Sing.
Dance.
Listen to music.
Watch netflix for the next forever.
Plan a trip.
Go for a drive.
Buy yourself a fancy coffee.
Get a new shirt.
Schedule a massage or acupuncture.
Talk to your neighbors.
Sit in silence.
Breathe.
Shake it all off.

Engage in whatever coping mechanisms feel grounding, supportive, nourishing, connecting or loving. Again, there is no right or wrong way to move through this. Just keep moving, even subtly. You are simply surviving this day.

But whatever you may do, please do not tell anyone that things will get better. Do not remind the grievers of the silver lining. We are uninterested in these things. We need to feel our anger, sadness, fear and disbelief.

If you feel like you need to say something, notice how you would feel if someone said it to you. It is not your job to curate or manage anyone else's emotional state. We get to have our feelings and our experiences. We are still here and breathing, with hearts beating (even though it might not feel like it), and we just need validation. So, if you feel that discomfort or sense of urgency to fix, just say "I hear you. I'm here." Or simply sit with us in silence. Sometimes we just need physical presence with no words.

Today is a very hard day. It feels heavy, dense, numbing and it's hard to see beyond our own two feet. But I am still here, walking beside you. Sending you love from the foggy mists of Minnesota.

Sally

***The Tower card is from the “Elemental Power Tarot”by Melinda Lee Holm***

10/31/2024

10% Kinder

"We can disagree and still be kind to each other." ~ Gary Vaynerchuk "Small acts of kindness add up, and in the end may save the world." ~ Lex Fridman "Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so b...

10/26/2024

Savoring Fall at Lachat Town Farm ☺️🍁🧡

10/17/2024

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Love is the combination of accepting, being courageous, and a willingness to act on others or our own behalf.

09/19/2024

Autumnal Equinox - - Shamanic Fire Ceremony, this Sunday Evening at Lachat Farm, Weston, CT
As we transition from summer to fall, it is a time of reflection, gratitude, and setting our intentions for the the season ahead with reverence, appreciation, and joy.
Please join us this Sunday for an evening celebration in the Shamanic tradition, honoring our ancestors and connecting to the Elements - Earth, Fire, Water, Air, Ether. We’ll give thanks for our blessings, honor our losses, reunite with our true selves, and offer our heartfelt intentions for the season ahead to the alchemy of fire.
All ages are welcome to join and participate.
I hope to see you there.
Greg

Shamanic Fire Ceremony "Great Spirit - Teach me to trust my heart, my mind, my intuition, my inner knowing, the senses of my body, the natural blessings of this earth. Teach me to trust these things so that I may enter my Sacred Space and love beyond my fear, and thus walk in balance with the passin...

08/01/2024

Appreciating Summer

“Summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ~ Henry James Dear ${contact.Name.First}, The beginning of August arrives at my door with a touch of sadness. Summer is half over, the sun is rising later and setting sooner as our axis orbits ...

05/08/2024

Still processing this, most likely, once in a lifetime event. I feel a sense of great good fortune to have been there, and having experienced first-hand the delicate dance our earth is engaged in with our sun, moon, oceans, and air, a profound humbleness. We are the elements, and they are us. It is truly a miracle we are here at all!
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Still processing this, most likely, once in a lifetime event. Feeling a great sense of good fortune, awe, and inspiration.