Cardinal Wisdom Spiritual Wellness

06/09/2024

04/05/2024

If you took the time to bury the bones of every animal you've ever eaten the way you bury a beloved pet, how big would the graveyard be? Evolve...for their sake.

01/06/2024

Just passing through or new to Martinsburg? If you are a practicing vegan/vegetarian or ready to to give cleaner eating a try, Good Natured on Raleigh Street has wonderful menu selections to choose from! And they have an impressive health food store too!

https://www.goodnaturedllc.com/

After watching a news piece about the future of animal cells grown in steel tanks to save our planet, my thought. How about a wild rice quinoa patty for dinner. Nothing artificial, we do this everyday at Good Natured. Our Jasmine Rice Burger is on the menu today.

06/14/2023

RUMI ❤️

06/14/2023

Anyone looking for a big, beautiful beardie? Poor Zeus has been passed over several times because he’s too big to fit in a 40 breeder. He’s in a 3’x2’ here, but would really love a 4x2x2.

See more pictures and apply on our website:

https://www.blueridgereptilerescue.org/product-page/zeus

05/25/2023

*This post does not apply to situations of abuse.* True intimacy is founded on honesty, communication, and the ability to repair when there’s been hurt.

If we’re never forthright about our hurts or grievances, we never give our relationships the opportunity to become resilient through discussion, negotiation, and conflict resolution.

*Even if they respond negatively to our honesty,* it is important that we share our feelings, needs, and requests. Their reactions are important information for us about what their own limitations are⁠—and whether this connection is a healthy, aligned fit for us. We don’t get this information about what others are or are not capable of if we never speak up.

People-pleasing is like wearing a mask. We become the cheerful ones, the easygoing ones, the harmonious ones. We are the ones who say yes. We don’t speak up when we’ve been hurt. We aren’t honest about what we need or feel.

Though these ways of interacting may reduce the potential for conflict in the short-term, they are not conducive to true intimacy over time. By acting these ways, we essentially guarantee that we will feel chronically unseen and unknown.

Conflict avoidance is intimacy avoidance.

🔥 Put this into practice at my NEW workshop on 5/23, Using Boundaries to Sustain Intimate Relationships. Learn to have the hard conversations and set the boundaries that will enable you to maintain relationships through times of difference, disagreement, and mismatch. Get the details and tickets at www.haileymagee.com/workshops

05/25/2023

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05/13/2023

This Mother's Day I acknowledge that I have a Mother and a Sister. Not all family is healthy. I tried for decades to love them. If you find yourself feeling empty and mourning relationships that were not meant to be, it is possible to channel that unrequited love...that pain...into loving others who are willing, healthy, and able return the love you have to offer. This Mother's Day, I celebrate the Mother that I am, and I celebrate the amazing Mothers around me that are more like family than I could have ever hoped for...my Sisters from Another Mother! You know who you are and you are cherished! And if you relate to my story, I highly recommend a book, available on Amazon, called The Black Swan: 12 Lessons of Abandonment Recovery. If you were abandoned, it is NOT your fault. You do not have to endure continued rejection and emotional abuse... no matter what traditional spiritual guidance says. There IS a way to forgive and move on without sacrificing your soul in the process. 😊

10/23/2022

She’s never asked for help in her life, fighting the battles and making her breaks all on her own.
Sure, she’s been frustrated, knocked down and counted out numerous times..
But she always found a way to get back up, rise from the ashes of her failure and keep going.
Not once did she feel sorry for herself or ask why…
She did what she had to do to survive.
And each time, after every broken heart and all the failures, she picked up her shattered pieces and figured out how to rebuild herself stronger than before.
What she learned along the way was that the world seemed more intent on focusing on her flaws than celebrating the beauty of her recovery.
They didn’t see the strong and resilient woman who never stayed down…they criticized her cracks, lamented her flaws and judged her without ever knowing who she truly was..
But she soon realized the person whose opinion truly mattered was staring back at her in the mirror.
The woman she was becoming wasn’t stuck looking back over her shoulder at what she had been..
She was lifting her eyes to the bright future and all that lay ahead.
While she had taken the long road to get where she was, every misstep, bad decision and mistake led her exactly where she was meant to be…
And forged her strength and armor in the process.
So, when they asked her if she’d change anything about where she’d been or what she’d been through, she’d just smile with a twinkle in her eye and say no.
She knew what they seemed to forget:
Her cracks were how the light got in, and she was determined to be the brightest light in the sky..
And there was nothing that would stop her from being the happiest and most beautiful light that she could be.

Author ~ravenwolf

https://www.facebook.com/houseofravenwolf

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🌀Nicole
Sacred Wild Woman Medicine

PhotoCredit/Artist Debra Bernier

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08/11/2022

discern the difference

between making a living

and making a killing

life sustains life

don't get it twisted

a decent living is made up of bountiful harvests and backyard bonfires,

of secret recipes passed down from your grandmothers;

of earthy dreams that shake you and wake you in a sweat,

and of long nights singing lullabies to get the baby to bed

it's made up of heavy tears

that fall all the way down

to the bottom of a feeling,

and of the arms that hold you

when you can no longer hold yourself.

a living is the barbed blackberry bramble

you keep cutting back,

who returns to you

over and over;

bearing fruit and whispering: "sister....persist."

and the tragic flaw

of the human species

is those that would kill

to make a killing

and still wonder why,

with their pockets so full,

their hearts feel so empty.

thing is--

you can ask any river or tree;

ask wolf or salmon--

they'll tell you:

true wealth is not measured in

gold,

or possession of land,

or power over others

but in a community that needs you,

that you need in return

so when I tell you

I want to make a decent living,

you can assume that I mean

living decently

and reweaving a world that includes

joyful men,

inviolable women

the sanctity of childhood

full bellies all around

clear rivers running free

relationships rooted in reciprocity

and that vision

isn't an easy one to carry

all the way to its fruition.

it's quite possibly impossible,

if you believe in the myths of patriarchy;

but as natural born heretic

i don't

still

until the desire

to make a living

quells the desire

to make a killing

none of us

will ever

know true wealth

~ Iris Eve, True Wealth
Iris Eve
https://www.iris-eve.com/
https://www.facebook.com/SHEonthetipofhertongue/

Art: Tijana Lukovic, “Lammas”

https://www.tijanadraws.com/