Red Cedar Way

What it means to protect the sacred space of our home. ** Follow along on insta @redcedarway Support on tipjar ** This podcast is written, produced, and edited by Red Cedar Way. Cover Artwork and Music Credits: Music in this podcast is the track Glacier by the artist SalmonLikeTheFish on the album Music for the Sleepy Traveler. It is used under creative commons license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Cover art b...

Let’s talk letting go of celebrity worship to reclaim our own spirit, autonomy, and accountability. ** Follow along on insta @redcedarway Support on tipjar ** This podcast is written, produced, and edited by Red Cedar Way. Cover Artwork and Music Credits: Music in this podcast is the track Glacier by the artist SalmonLikeTheFish on the album Music for the Sleepy Traveler. It is used under creative...

Everyone is talking about community building but few acknowledge the challenges of actually doing it! Community means nurturing relationships with people - real people - who have diverse beliefs, values, personalities, abilities, and needs. Relationships can be hard and messy. In this episode, we talk about what it looks like to build community in a colonized world. ** Follow along on insta @redce...

As the darker, colder days draw near, let’s explore the spirit of winter. The Winter Maker is the spirit that brings winter and is represented in the night sky beginning in December. During this time, we tells stories, gather together, and share warmth and resources. Today, we'll talk about what the spirit of winter reveals to us, as well as the spiritual significance of winter to me personally. ...

Let’s talk rebirth! This week we dive into past lives, including what it means to be closer to spirit or “the veil" as a child (who remembers their past life) and my hypothesis for why our human condition filters out past lives as we get older. I share my own past life memory and what I’ve learned about how I carry intergenerational and, potentially, inter-life trauma. Lastly, I’ll discuss th...

Let’s talk all the approaches and modalities that are in my medicine bundle right now: community, spiritual, cultural, traditional, and western, as well as traditional approaches from around the world like: acupuncture, moxibustion, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. We’ll also talk family knowledge and recipes, as well as red light therapy, heat therapy, bodywork, vitamins, herbs, and supplements....

Let’s talk about our connection to our bodies, the monthly cycle, and our bleed or moon time. I share a major milestone in my healing journey, how I’ve been reconnecting with my cycle and bleed, and share about the first time I got a period. We’ll discuss how colonization has robbed us of the beauty and power inherent in our cycle and bleed, and dig into how to reconnect to our traditions and prac...

This week, we talk about how the dream world brings medicine, and healing in seasons of grief. I talk about spirit communication during dreams, and how our ancestors and loved ones may visit us in our dreams. I share my own experience and and update on how I’ve been experiencing grief. ** Follow along on insta @redcedarway Support on tipjar ** This podcast is written, produced, and edited by Red C...

An update on my healing journey after pregnancy loss and Asherman Syndrome (uterine scarring), including my connection to spirit through the dream world. ** Follow along on insta @redcedarway Support on tipjar ** This podcast is written, produced, and edited by Red Cedar Way. Cover Artwork and Music Credits: Music in this podcast is the track Glacier by the artist SalmonLikeTheFish on the album Mu...

In Anishnaabe culture, the spirits of thunder beings and the underwater panther provide medicine and are part of the cosmological balance. ** Follow along on insta @redcedarway Support on tipjar ** This podcast is written, produced, and edited by Red Cedar Way. Cover Artwork and Music Credits: Music in this podcast is the track Glacier by the artist SalmonLikeTheFish on the album Music for the Sle...

This week, we dive into sleep and dream medicine. Most people have seen dreamcatchers, but let’s talk about the cultural and medicinal traditions of using dreamcatchers. Who makes them, who uses them, what should they look like, and where should you hang them? ** Follow along on insta @redcedarway Support on tipjar ** This podcast is written, produced, and edited by Red Cedar Way. Cover Artwork an...

Trick or Treat! A smattering of spooky stories from my own collection. ** References: Website for the haunted Pousada . Follow along on insta @redcedarway Support on tipjar ** This podcast is written, produced, and edited by Red Cedar Way. Cover Artwork and Music Credits: Music in this podcast is the track Glacier by the artist SalmonLikeTheFish on the album Music for the Sleepy Traveler. It is us...

Let’s talk about different healing modalities, their benefits and drawbacks, and what it means to be a healer and to seek healing. References: Plaintain is the plant that fights bug bites Indigenous Medicine Podcast The Healing Alliance: Western Medicine Meets Indigenous Medicine, Part 1 How Indigenous Medicine Intersects with Biomedicine with Diane Longboat The Power of Spirit Can Facilitate Heal...

A seasonal shift is underway: the Autumn Equinox teaches us lessons about preparing, slowing down, letting go, and healing. This year’s Equinox lines up with my own healing journey. In this podcast episode, I talk about the last few months navigating life post-miscarriage, including coming to terms with a body that isn’t fully healed. We will talk through the rare uterine scarring condition called...

How can we return to the land, to our land-based, indigenous practices, when those practices were coopted, covered, and hidden from view through colonization? This week, I’ll take us on a little trip to a holy well in Ireland to discuss ancient practices, sacred sites, and how to seek clues to the practices our ancestors left us. Many land-based practices have been coopted by colonizers and empire...

What makes someone a shaman, healer, or medicine person? Can you become one with a course, a certificate, or an instagram handle? In traditional cultures, people study medicine and healing for decades before holding themselves out as healers to their communities. Let’s talk about the modern obsession with influencers and shamans and what it means to really serve a community. We’ll also discuss the...

This week I share a bit about traditional medicine practices, and talk about good and bad medicine. I share my own experience with bad medicine and how to to fight the temptation to use bad medicine. I’ll also discuss the ethics of using bad medicine and the historical and current cultural significance of medicine people in Anishnaabe culture. References: Spooked: Bull Boy Spooked: Medicine People...

Scent and the sense of smell have an incredible, and often invisible, impact on our lives. Scent can bring comfort and healing, and help us to survive. Today I chat about the different ways I’ve come to know scent - from food to fragrance to medicine and even as a means to communicate with spirit. ** Resources: The scent of attraction and the smell of success: crossmodal influences on person perce...

Today’s a big one, guys. And it may be tough to take. But it is important. We’re going to talk about who is a settler, an immigrant, a colonizer, and more. Whose duty is it to decolonize? What it means to decolonize and re-indignize as an indigenous person, as a settler (of any background/race/ethnicity), and as a white person. What are the generational impacts of colonization, imperialism, and ca...

This week’s episode is a little chat on a big problem: spiritual escapism and bypassing. Too many spiritual and wellness spaces deny the inherent truth that the spiritual and physical worlds are inseparable. “Spiritual" spaces that espouse love, light, and high vibes deny or avoid the plain realities of our physical world, allowing their followers and adherents to avoid confronting or reconci...

Our sacred duty as storykeepers is to hear, hold, and pass on even the most difficult of stories. The more difficult the story, the more sacred is the duty. Today, I’ll talk about how stories, especially those of pain and trauma, are often weaponized against us, to manipulate us in campaigns and elections. But if we return to our sacred duty to hold and pass along the most difficult of stories, we...

On today’s episode, I’ll dive into my 2+ year journey (and still going) into darkness as a place of healing, development, and spiritual and emotional transformation. I’ll discuss deprogramming and discarding the stigma of darkness as a place of depression or difficulty or evil, and shedding the false dichotomy of darkness vs. light. My darkness season, my winter season, my new moon season: this ha...

Stories are a powerful and ancient medicine. We have been transmitting and receiving stories since the begining of time for a multitude of healing reasons: to celebrate and memorialize great success, to transmute pain, to heal, to laugh, to show care and support for others. Holding another’s stories is a radical act of love and kindness, a radical act of care in a world that leaves the grieving, d...

In the second part of our discussion on Trance & Transmission, I go more in-depth discussing the importance of setting boundaries. Then we’ll delve into communication with spirit and ancestors using clairs (what many call intuition and mediumship) and I’ll share what my experience has been developing clairs and a language for communicating with spirit. References: I talk about my experience in...

Today, we delve into the world of trance and transmission. Of relating to, communicating with, being in community with, and communicating with spirit and ancestors. Of different states of being, of different realms, of different physical, spiritual, and energetic ways of being. Of the importance of setting boundaries to protect ourselves. I share my own experiences with the dreamtime, repeating dr...