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Self-Compassion as a Path Home to Belonging
One of the great benefits of helping other people heal is that I get to witness the potency of compassion. A person shared with me a moment that had haunted her for decades. It was a circumstance where she not able to help a vulnerable person she loved. Since trauma is not in the event, it…
Read MoreHow I Received My Name Landsong and My Call to Mount Shasta
When I was 20 years old, I sat with my knees bent up, and journal in my lap in the bed I was given at the Women’s Shelter. I had just gotten out of three months of inpatient trauma treatment, and now I was starting my life over on the West Coast in Seattle. My…
Read MoreBefore the trip: 38 days until we leave
This post is from 2017 for the 1st return trip. 38 days until we get on a plane for South Africa, then Zimbabwe! We are doing well in our preparations. Vanessa and Digby, who are the people who found Maemu, are hosting us for two weeks. They live close to where we believe is the…
Read MoreGratitude for this Return Trip to Africa
On our way home from doing our first aid training, we stopped at a store to get first aid and food supplies for the Africa trip. As I took things off the self and put them in my cart I thought, “I am going to eat this in Zimbabwe.” When John rejoined me and asked me…
Read More47 days until we leave for Africa Return Trip
My Near Death Experience in Africa
When I was eight years old I was abducted from the US and taken to Africa. It was 1977. I have reason to believe the man who abducted me was a Vietnam Veteran going to Rhodesia so he could fight in the Bush War for the Rhodesian government. He drugged me in order to abduct me…
Read MoreProfound Connection on second return to Zimbabwe
This post is from 2019 second return trip People are arriving, goat meat is being cooked in a huge metal pot over a wood fire, and men are warming the drums by another fire. John goes over and greets the men and they offer that he can try out the drums. Everyone…
Read MoreBook Excerpt: During My NDE A Being Shows Me the Ways All Of Life is Gracefully Linked Together
In the center of an open space of short grass I am so surprised to see a man who looks like a king. He has no crown but when I look at him I think of royalty even though he is dressed like a shepherd. His coat is not fancy or jeweled. It goes to…
Read MoreCreate Belonging
Giving and receiving help, including others, and honoring yourself are ways to create belonging. Creating belonging is an antidote to alienation. What are the ways we can share our unique gifts unsparingly, while calling out the gifts of others?An excerpt from my book when I first arrived to the village that took me in: “A…
Read MoreWe found the location of my first village!
A second miracle has taken place. Yesterday we (John my husband, Vanessa our host, Future an area game scout and our fabulous translator, and Maemu) found the location of my first village from 40 years ago. My friend Brianna helped me find words for what took place inside me with this quote. “We need to be…
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