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Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers16-Minutes in Bali - Meditative Storytime with Mohawkmomma SoulDear scribblers + speakers,
We are closing out season nine with a visit to Bali in the story: "Grumpy Gecko" from the book, "The Barefoot Book of Earth Tales" by Dawn Casey and Anne Wilson (pages 46-55).
As I take a sabbatical during September (Self-Care Awareness Month), this last episode will also serve as a bridge for the new season that will launch on Oct 31, 2022. Beyond Self-Care Awareness Month, care deeply for all the districts, highways, and the back alleys of your life—personally + collectively.
To...2022-09-0516 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers10-Minute More Than Meditation, A Meditative LifeDear scribblers + speakers,
The Embodied Question: Are you ready to expand how you notice + nurture + embody meditation in the day-to-day trenches + triumphs of your life?
Embodiment CTA (Call to Abide): Take the Rest Assessment - Go from routine to ritual as you Notice + Nurture + Embody your cyclical rhythms. You'll receive your ritual-specific, personalized recommendation, which will help you tune into your body's wisdom to optimize tending to your rhythmic soul care.
Mohawkmomma Soul Podcast is brought to you by Mohawkmomma Soul Care Boutique, created + curated by Andrea "A...2022-08-0609 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers4-Minute Morning Five Ritual Week Four FinaleDear scribblers + speakers,
Our Morning Five are part of what I call CARE Rituals. They are punctuation marks and without them, each day is like a run-on sentence. There is a better way for you to engage the day—your rituals, personally + collectively.
1) H2O Cocktail —Revitalize and re-hydrate first thing each day (yes, before tea, coffee, etc.). Put together 8oz of filtered water with ¼ fresh lemon and ¼-½ tsp of sea salt (optional).
Caution: I recommend before using herbal products, particularly if you are pregnant, nursing, or on an...2022-08-0404 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers2-Minute Morning Five Ritual Week Three - You Are Already FreeDear scribblers + speakers,
Our Morning Five are part of what I call CARE Rituals. They are punctuation marks and without them, each day is like a run-on sentence. There is a better way for you to engage the day—your rituals, personally + collectively.
Watch the visual meditation on Spotify or YouTube.
1) H2O Cocktail —Revitalize and re-hydrate first thing each day (yes, before matcha or coffee).
2) Light—Done hydrating? Splendid, head outside! Just like plants, we have a distinct need for sunshine, water a...2022-07-2102 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers2-Minute Scripture Sanctum Meditation - Turning Ovah Tables (Matthew 21:12, 13)Dear scribblers + speakers,
We follow a turning-ovah-table Messiah. Let's follow in His footsteps + turn ovah tables as beloved, devoted disciples of joy + justice.
Watch the visual meditation on YouTube or Spotify.
Read along: Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of rob...2022-07-1502 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers13-Minute Morning Five Ritual Week Two - Sleep, Connection, and Caffeine Check-inDear scribblers + speakers,
How are you being + doing so far, in this 30-day communion?
Our Morning Five are part of what I call CARE Rituals. They are punctuation marks and without them, each day is like a run-on sentence. There is a better way for you to engage the day—your rituals, personally + collectively.
1) H2O Cocktail —Revitalize + re-hydrate first thing each day (yes, before tea, coffee, etc.). Put together 8oz of filtered water with ¼ fresh lemon and ¼-½ tsp of sea salt.
2) Lig...2022-07-1513 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers8-Minute Full Moon Meditative Journaling - Buck Supermoon 2022Dear scribblers + speakers,
Today, on Wednesday, July 13th, we skywatchers will have a chance to behold a view of the biggest supermoon of the year so far, the Buck Supermoon. So let's pause with a meditative ceremony to give thanks to the Most High and reap of this celestial beauty + witness.
"There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory" - 1 Corinthians 15:41.
The Embodied Question: How will...2022-07-1408 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers4-Minute TranquiliTEA Tending Meditation - Intentions in Your DayDear scribblers + speakers,
Oftentimes, getting stuff done means creating a to-do list. A list that can plunge the heart into overwhelm or avoidance. But there's a different story with this Intentions Journal as you create in-the-moment-pleasure + prepare for whatever is ahead.
Beyond creating a to-do list, create history.
Order the 30-Day Intentions Journal.
Watch the visual meditation.
The Embodied Question: Are you allowing the "many things" in your day to derive their place + meaningfulness from the "One T...2022-07-1204 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers3-Minute Morning Five Ritual Week One - Not Static or Linear (Ancestral-infused)Dear scribblers + speakers,
All July is dedicated to my ancestor, Great Great Ma Ella Ellis. She was born July 4, 1885. This 30-day communion honors her. Our Morning Five are part of what I call CARE Rituals. They are punctuation marks and without them, each day is like a run-on sentence. There is a better way for you to engage the day—your rituals, personally + collectively.
1) H2O Cocktail —Revitalize and re-hydrate first thing each day (yes, before matcha or coffee). Put together 8oz of filtered water with ¼ fresh lemon and ¼-½ tsp...2022-07-0203 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers2-Minute Morning Five Ritual Week One - The 30-day Communion (Challenge)Dear scribblers + speakers,
Our Morning Five are part of what I call CARE Rituals. They are punctuation marks—without them, each day is like a run-on sentence. There is a better way for you to engage the day—your rituals, personally + collectively.
1) H2O Cocktail —Revitalize and re-hydrate first thing each day (yes, before matcha or coffee). Put together 8oz of filtered water with ¼ fresh lemon and ¼-½ tsp of sea salt.
2) Light—Done hydrating? Splendid, head outside! Just like plants, we have a distinct need for sunshine, w...2022-07-0102 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers12-Minute New Moon Musing MeditationDear scribblers + speakers,
On the Hebrew calendar, during the New Moon, women have a special affinity with Rosh Chodesh ("Head of the Month")—the month being the feminine aspect of the Jewish calendar.
We live our lives with the moon because we wish to harness the distinct qualities of lunar energy: its communion + creativity, its capacity for renaissance + rebirth. The moon's movement affects not only the movement of water upon the earth but also these earthen vessels. Like the tides, we ebb + flow. Ase' + Amen.
Let’s lean...2022-07-0111 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers18-Minute Morning Five Ritual Invitation - The 30-day Communion (Challenge)Dear scribblers + speakers,
All July is dedicated to my ancestor, Great Great Ma Ella Ellis. She was born July 4, 1885. This 30-day communion honors her. Our Morning Five are part of what I call CARE Rituals. They are punctuation marks and without them, each day is like a run-on sentence. There is a better way for you to engage the day—your rituals, personally + collectively.
1) H2O Cocktail —Revitalize and re-hydrate first thing each day (yes, before matcha or coffee). Put together 8oz of filtered water with ¼ fresh lemon and ¼-½ tsp of sea sal...2022-06-2418 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers2-Minute Scripture Sanctum Meditation - Luke 10:41, 42 One Thing + Wisdom from Bruce LeeRead along:
“Martha, Martha,” the Lord replied, “you are worried and upset about many things. But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:41, 42 (Berean Study Bible).
Ase' + Amen
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Therapy...2022-06-2102 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers7-Minute TranquiliTEA Tending Meditation - PTSD Awareness Month: Overthinking + Overcontrolling (Post-Trauma Responses + Strategies)Dear scribblers + speakers,
June is PTSD Awareness Month. Trauma is not the event, it's the aftershocks of the event. Overthinking + overcontrolling could be post-traumatic responses/strategies that have been part of your survival.
The embodied question is: As you work-play through the narrative of your trauma (and its legacy), what rituals will have helped you seek transformative intervention? (don't overthink this, we all have rituals—we simply don't name them as such.)
Embodiment CTA (Call to Abide): Take the Rest Assessment - Go from routine to ritual as...2022-06-1407 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers3-Minute TranquiliTEA Tending Meditation - Don't Harden, Soften, SisDear scribblers + speakers,
Let's affirm + tend to our softness. It's a way of coming homing to our wholeness (shalom).
Watch the visual meditation.
The embodied question is: "Instead of closing your heart, what rituals will help you close door(s) to limit or eliminate unhealthy access to you? (don't overthink this, we all have rituals—we simply don't name them as such.)
Embodiment CTA (Call to Abide): Take the Rest Assessment - Go from routine to ritual as you Notice + Nurture + Embody yo...2022-06-0803 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers4-Minute TranquiliTEA Tending Meditation: The Gift of Oneness - Echad (Eh-cod)Dear scribblers + speakers,
Let's affirm + tend to oneness. Oneness is one of the highest expressions of creativity—in my opinion—a reflection of the Beloved's creativity.
Hebrew word: Echad
definition: a single entity but made up of more than one part.
The embodied question is: "What echad/oneness rituals ground you with creation (other humans or non-humans)? (don't overthink this, we all have rituals—we simply don't name them as such.)
Embodiment CTA (Call to Abide): Take the Rest Assessment - Go f...2022-06-0104 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers11-Minute Meditation - Moving Through Personal + Collective Trauma With EmbodimentDear scribbler + speaker,
The embodied question is: So what do we do when trauma + grief comes our way (over and over again), personally + collectively?
Embodiment CTA (Call to Abide): We make space for grief with multifaceted, reparative activities. Because Life be Lifin' 24/7.
Get Curious: Take the Rest Ritual Quiz
Watch the visual meditation.
Therapy:
Therapy for Black Girls
Journaling Prompt:
Notepad PDF (free download)
Meditative Playlists:2022-05-2811 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers1-Minute Journaling Benediction Meditation - Rituals Are Punctuation MarksDear scribblers + speakers,
Rituals are punctuation marks and without them, each day is like a run-on sentence. There is a better way for you to engage the day—your rituals.
For women, the earliest rituals have long been tied to women's rhythms and cycles: solar + lunar + seasonal.
The embodied question is: "What rituals ground you in your humanity?" (don't overthink this, we all have rituals—we simply don't name them as such.)
Embodiment CTA (Call to Abide): Take the Rest Assess...2022-05-2101 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers1-Minute Journaling Benediction Meditation - What Do I Create with My Time?Dear scribblers + speakers,
Let's align with the audacious truth that we are co-creators, and we are always creating something—personally + collectively—intuitively and intentionally.
Creativity is embodied through our humanity. Whether were are bearing fruit (outward + public) or being in our fallow (inward + private)—we have a sacred communion that connects us in our multifaceted creativity from the inside out.
The embodied question is: "What do I create with my time?" The disembodied question is: "How or when do I find the time to create...2022-05-2101 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers1-Minute TranquiliTEA Tending Meditation - DecisionsDear scribblers + speakers,
Journey with me in my backyard sanctuary as I lament + linger in this generative space.
As you enter + engage this Tuesday (or whatever day you're listening), no matter where your lament lies, instead of consumption, commune and take a moment to reflect...
A moment for lamenting during this lunar fullness - gratitude is full.
A moment for breathing, sip your lunar libation + stretch - gratitude is full.
We can set the vibe + trajectory for...2022-05-1700 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers1-Minute Journaling Benediction Meditation - Rest From UrgencyDear scribblers + speakers,
But is it really urgent?
There's a fierce urgency of now that has groomed + conditioned many of us to run off frantic fuel. But there is an unlearning liberation from this exploitive, debilitating fallacy that awaits us, personally + collectively.
There is a softer, more shalom-making place to land as we pause in a meditation that opens us up to breathe + rest in holy curiosity about our patterns + path.
Mohawkmomma Soul Podcast is brought to you by M...2022-04-2701 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers17-Minute Introducing Season 9 - The Color of Empathy (National Poetry Month)Dear scribblers + speakers, listen to Andrea "Angie" and Keith Palmer in a meditative prelude about empathy in the life of writers and oracles as we gather to notice, nurture and embody shalom enclaves of luminous bliss, healing, and solidarity.
Mohawkmomma Soul Podcast is brought to you by Mohawkmomma Soul Care Boutique, created + curated by Andrea "Angie" Palmer. You can also Subscribe by RSS.
The empathy meditation read at the opening derives from the Emotional Wellbeing Card Deck from Mohawkmomma Soul Care Boutique
Journaling Prompt: 2022-04-2317 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers8-Minute Kwanzaa - Day 7 Imani (ee-MAH-nee): FaithSOULjourner, this is our conclusion of Kwanzaa, and we're ending this eighth season with our focus on 'faith' + the announcement of a new podcast horizon for 2022.
Thank you for joining our soul care commUNITY as we paused to observe the 7-day 'first fruits' harvest celebration of Kwanzaa. Asé + Shalom to you this new year!
Music
Mohawkmomma Studio Kwanzaa playlist
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Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers8-Minute Kwanzaa - Day 6 Kuumba (koo-OOM-bah): CreativitySOULjourner, Genesis reveals that creativity is "rooted" in speaking + seed sowing—literally + figuratively. Join our soul care commUNITY as we meditatively observe the 7-day 'first fruits' harvest celebration of Kwanzaa. Download the coloring calendar + the devotional journaling guide.
Music
Mohawkmomma Studio Kwanzaa playlist
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Email: andrea@mohawkmommastudio.com
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How to support my work?
1. SIGNUP for Mohawkmomma Studio Forum—a soul...2022-01-0108 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers5-Minute Kwanzaa - Day 5 Nia (NEE-ah): PurposeSOULjourner, beyond a noun, purpose is a verb. And every purpose you carry out must be fleshed out (embodied) in solidarity, not in solitary confinement. Join our soul care commUNITY as we meditatively observe the 7-day 'first fruits' harvest celebration of Kwanzaa. Download the coloring calendar + the devotional journaling guide.
Elohim is the source of collective purpose. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Ruach - breath, wind) together are our Nia.
Music
Mohawkmomma Studio Kwanzaa playlist
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Email: andrea@m...2021-12-3005 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers5-Minute Kwanzaa - Day 4 Ujamaa (oo-jah-MAH-ah): Cooperative EconomicsSOULjourner, cooperative economics is more than where you shop, it's about transformative alignment. Join our soul care commUNITY as we meditatively observe the 7-day 'first fruits' harvest celebration of Kwanzaa. Download the coloring calendar + the devotional journaling guide.
The fourth day of Kwanzaa presents us with both comfort + challenge as we choose an oftentimes INCONVENIENT shalom-making path in collective economics within our homes + communities.
Music
Opening guitar played by Peter Collins (Love and Mind album)
Mohawkmomma Studio Kwanzaa playlist
Connect +...2021-12-2905 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers2-Minute Kwanzaa - Day 3 Ujima (oo-JEE-mah): Collective Work + ResponsibilitySOULjourner, what form will collective work + responsibility take on in the micro + macro of your being + doing, today (and beyond)? Join our soul care commUNITY as we meditatively observe the 7-day 'first fruits' harvest celebration of Kwanzaa. Download the coloring calendar + the devotional journaling guide.
“You are where you are today because you stand on somebody’s shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders.”
...2021-12-2902 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers3-Minute Kwanzaa - Day 2 Kujichagulia (koo-jee-chah-GOO-lee-ah): Self-determinationSOULjourner, what have you determined within your heart that has put feet to your core beliefs—personally + collectively? Join our soul care commUNITY as we meditatively observe the 7-day 'first fruits' harvest celebration of Kwanzaa. Download the coloring calendar + the devotional journaling guide.
Music
Mohawkmomma Studio Kwanzaa playlist
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Email: andrea@mohawkmommastudio.com
Youtube: Mohawkmomma Studio
LinkedIn: Andrea 'Angie' Palmer
How to support my work?
1. SIGNUP fo...2021-12-2703 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers1-Minute Kwanzaa - Day 1 Umoja (oo-MO-jah): UnityJoin our soul care commUNITY as we meditatively observe the 7-day 'first fruits' harvest celebration of Kwanzaa. Download the coloring calendar + the devotional journaling guide.
Music
Opening guitar played by Peter Collins (Love and Mind album)
Mohawkmomma Studio Kwanzaa playlist
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Email: andrea@mohawkmommastudio.com
Youtube: Mohawkmomma Studio
LinkedIn: Andrea 'Angie' Palmer
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1. SIGNUP for Mohawkmomma Studio...2021-12-2601 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers[Reboot] Christmas Edition: Love + Light + BreathOriginally broadcast on December 24, 2019. Today, we meditate upon how Love + light + breath reminds us of the Ruach's/Spirit’s constant presence (breath, wind, spirit) in our lives as we breathe—personally + collectively. Where there is breath, there is life.
Ponder + Exhale (Release + Expand)
"The Spirit of God (Ruach Elohim) was hovering over the waters" (Genesis 1:2). In Genesis 6:17 Ruach is translated as "Breath of life."
Music
Opening + Closing guitar played by Peter Collins (Love and Mind album), beyond streaming, buy. I do not own the rights to this music.
...2021-12-2414 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers(Rahab) Advent Week 4 - Unswerving LoveDear Scribblers + Speakers, visit the ADVENT page to download the journaling guide + calendar (read the blog + more!). Today's shalom-making meditation will focus on Rahab—mother-in-love (law) of Ruth, Grandmother of King David, one of Yeshua's foremothers.
Momma Rahab is our witness from the margins. She may have been a prostitute in Jericho, but she was secretly a virgin daughter of The Most High. She believed in a Bisrat/Gospel (Good News) for the outsider.
Visit the blog to go deeper + interact with unswerving Love in Rahab's story (our story)....2021-12-2117 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersBonus: (Mary/Miriam) Advent Week 3 Joy - Mary's MagnificatDear Sabbathing Scribblers + Speakers, visit the ADVENT page to download the journaling guide + calendar (read the blog + more!). Today's sabbathing bonus meditation will focus on the reading of Luke 1:46-55. Asé + Amen.
SOULjourner, how did you move your body to the rhythmic reading of Mary's Magnificat (song). And what song or poem (original or not) is calling your joy forth?
Listen:: The Magnificat - Song of Mary (Luke 1:46-55)
“My soul magnifies the Lord
and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
for he h...2021-12-1804 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers(Mary/Miriam) Advent Week 3- Sabbathing Reflection: Unspeakable Joy + RisingDear Sabbathing Scribblers + Speakers, visit the ADVENT page to download the journaling guide + calendar (read the blog + more!). Today's shalom-making JOY meditation will focus on and conclude with young Mary/Miriam. Amidst a scandalous pregnancy, she dared to utter an unlikely joy from the depths of her soul + body. Her incarnate mothering gave birth to the Incarnate Messiah. Asé + Amen.
Momma Mary (Miriam) is the epitome of rising and making something of life, together, in community, in the face of suffering. SOULjourner, what song or poem (original or not) is calling your joy forth?2021-12-1816 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers(Mary/Miriam) Advent Week 3 - Unspeakable Joy + UtteranceDear Sabbathing Scribblers + Speakers, visit the ADVENT page to download the journaling guide + calendar (read the blog + more!). Today's shalom-making meditation will focus on young Mary/Miriam.
Even in the midst of a scandalous pregnancy, she dared to utter an unlikely joy from the depths of her soul + body. Her incarnate mothering gave birth to the Incarnate Messiah. Asé + Amen.
Momma Mary (Miriam) is the epitome of rising and making something of life, together, in community, in the face of suffering—unspeakable joy.
Listen:: The...2021-12-1615 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers(Ruth) Advent Week 2 Peace - A Sabbath ReflectionDear Scribblers + Speakers, today's shalom-making meditation is a Sabbath Reflection. We will focus on preparation in the covenant meal of peace as we end a week and step into a new one of Advent Joy. Please visit the ADVENT page to download the journaling guide + calendar (read the blog + more!).
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Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers(Ruth's Peace) Advent Week 2 - A Meditative Reading + Journaling PromptDear Scribblers + Speakers, Today's shalom-making meditation will focus on creativity in the covenant meal of peace expressed through the redemptive movement of friends eating together (Ruth chapter 2). Please visit the ADVENT page to download the journaling guide + calendar (read the blog + more!).
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Email: andrea@mohawkmommastudio.com
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How to support my work?
1. SIGNUP for Mohawkmomma Studio Forum—a soul care social media platform. Wanna go deeper? Re...2021-12-0915 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers(Ruth) Advent Week 2- Covenant Meal of PeaceDear Scribblers + Speakers, visit the ADVENT page to download the journaling guide + calendar (read the blog + more!). Today's shalom-making meditation will focus on Ruth.
Momma Ruth is our beacon of peace/shalom. Like Tamar, she trusted in the God who saw her and found shalom despite the abounding disturbances around her. May we embody the peace of Mother Ruth. A peace that reminds us that the Beloved extends a peace meal to us all and cares for the well-being of all creation, especially those on the margins.
Connect + Discover...2021-12-0616 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers(Tamar) Advent Week 1 - Hope + CommitmentDear Scribbler + Speaker, visit the ADVENT page to download the journaling guide + calendar. Today's shalom-making meditation will focus on hope + commitment. Tamar displays a commitment in community with God (Love) in the narrative of Genesis 38, Hope expands her commitment to act from faith, hope, and love.
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Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers(Tamar) Advent Week 1 - Hope + Integrity[Disclaimer - due to unresolved technical problems with sound editing, I strongly recommend headphones - thank you for understanding!]
Sabbathing SOULjourners, visit the ADVENT page to download the journaling guide + calendar. Today's shalom-making meditation will focus on hope + integrity. They are indivisible in the story of Tamar (Genesis 38), one of the Messiah's ancestors. Hope expands the integrity (wholeness) of our insight.
Integrity: The quality or condition of being whole, complete, sound, undivided.
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2021-12-0213 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers(Tamar) Advent Week 1 - Hope + WisdomSabbathing SOULjourners, visit the ADVENT page to download the journaling guide + calendar. Hope + wisdom are tethered in the story of Tamar, one of the Messiah's ancestors.
We as Westerners think of wisdom as having the cognitive ability to navigate life, but there is so much more to wisdom. Wisdom, in Hebrew, is the word hokmah. It is used to describe people who are skilled, those who have “wise hearts." Mother Tamar is a beacon for hope through a wise heart as she sought justice.
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Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers(Tamar's Hope) Advent Week 1 - A Meditative Musing + Journaling PromptSabbathing SOULjourners, this is a brief check-in for those using the journaling guide to go deeper—visit the ADVENT page to download the journaling guide + calendar. Listen + ruminate with our soul care collective in the first Advent episode.
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Email: andrea@mohawkmommastudio.com
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LinkedIn: Andrea 'Angie' Palmer
How To Support My Work?
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Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers(Tamar) Advent Week 1 - Living Waters of HopeSabbathing SOULjourners, it's our 100th episode! We will celebrate by choosing to pause + welcome the first week of Advent. HOPE in The Story of Tamar (Genesis 38). She is a vision of audacious hope, a hope associated with living waters (mikveh). Visit the ADVENT page.
Genesis 38:26: Judah recognized them and said, “She is more righteous [tsadik] than I, since I wouldn’t give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not sleep with her again.
tsadik (saw'deek), in Hebrew, means "justice" or "righteous"
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Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers[Archival Reboot] Days 8, 9, 10: Soul Care Narrative - The Goal, The Impact, Perception, and MomentumSabbathing SOULjourners, welcome to the concluding episode of the Write Your Soul Care Narrative course, a FREE 10-day course. This is a reboot episode of Days 8, 9, and 10 from January 6, 2020 (Including a bonus Advent prelude at the conclusion).
Today's invitation is to notice + nurture + embody the following: the desired goal of your soul care narrative, your visible impact on others in your sphere of influence, your perception, and your momentum.
Remember, you are more than your writing + speaking. You are a human, a multifaceted soul. Together let's pay attention to o...2021-11-2238 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers[Archival Reboot] Day 7: Soul Care Narrative - OutcomesPause Parishioners, welcome to the Write Your Soul Care Narrative course, a FREE 10-day course. This is a reboot episode of Day 7 from December 31, 2019.
Today's invitation is to pay close attention to two outcomes:
1. the short-term outcome of creativity's invitation + intervention in our story. This could be a shift in your attitude (orthodoxy), your feeling (orthopathy), or your behavior (orthopraxy).
2. the long-term outcome "outcome"... And because of that' short-term outcome, you not only become a willing recipient, you become a willing conduit of something transformative and sustaining...2021-11-2121 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers[Archival Reboot] Day 6: Soul Care Narrative - CreativityPause Parishioners, welcome to the Write Your Soul Care Narrative course, a FREE 10-day course. This is a 2019 reboot of Day 6. Today's focus is an invitation to get curious about the activity or intervention in your personal story that has opened you up to creativity (creativity = paying attention to how you engage your artful life).
Remember, you are more than your writing + speaking. You are a human, a multifaceted soul. Together, let's pay attention to our soul care narrative from the inside out. I am here to awaken + guide you to notice, nurture, and...2021-11-1726 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers[Archival Reboot] Soul Care Narrative Day 5 - The Antagonist + ContextSabbathing SOULjourners, welcome to the Write Your Soul Care Narrative course, a FREE 10-day course. This is the reboot of Day 5 of your Soul Care Narrative from 2019. Today's invitation is to be attentive to what your context reveals about your antagonist.
By context, we're looking at the inhospitable life circumstances, which form the setting for our soul care narrative. Let's be attentive to who or what is the primary adversarial agent in our stories. No matter your opposition, you are an agent of change.
Remember, you are more than...2021-11-0922 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + Seekers[Archival Reboot] Soul Care Narrative Day 4 - ProtagonistPause Parishioners, now that you have scribbled out your soul care narrative, let's take a closer look at your protagonist(s)—who is for your good, who is advocating for your well-being? In your story, make sure you include yourself as a protagonist because you are also an agent of good (tov) and transformation.
A word about the inner critic:
SOULjourner, don't discount yourself as a protagonist due to your inner critic.
Did you know that even your inner critic is for you? Yes, you heard me—she...2021-10-1318 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersBonus - A Soul Care PSA | A Collective ReminderSOULjouners, let's lean into this collective PSA, as we notice + nurture + embody an integrative communion that reminds us that we are accompanied deeply in our belonging. We'll resume our Soul Care Narrative series - Day Four in our next episode.
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Email: andrea@mohawkmommastudio.com
Youtube: Mohawkmomma Studio
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How to support my work?
1. Discover more on the website. Wanna go deeper? Register for the FREE Soul Care Narrative Online Course created by Andrea 'Angie' Palmer.
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Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersSukkot + Soul Care Narrative Day 3 [Archival Reboot]Pause Parishioners, today’s invitation is to write down the story we tell ourselves about our soul care (our embodied, whole person nurture) beginning with identifying the protagonist and context of our narrative. As we pay attention to our soul care narrative from the inside out, let's notice + nurture + embody the art and activism of soul care—personally + collectively.
Sukkot Meditation: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God…And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1:1, 14). The word “dwelt” in Greek means “taberna...2021-09-2720 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersSukkot + Soul Care Narrative Days 1 + 2 [Archival Reboot]Sabbathing SOULjourners, this is a Sukkot sanctuary with multiple invitations to rest in this sabbathing month of Tishrei, The Festival of Tabernacles/Sukkot/Booths 7-day festival of Sukkot/Tabernacles
We will continue with the Write Your Soul Care Narrative journaling experience. As we pay attention to our soul care narrative from the inside out, let's notice + nurture + embody the art and activism of soul care—personally + collectively.
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The Black Collective + @theblkcollective...2021-09-2130 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersSabbath Reflection: Soul Care Narrative BonusSOULjourners, this Sabbath Reflection Bonus is an invitation + reminder to join the new podcast series, the Write Your Soul Care Narrative. We'll journal + pay attention to our soul care narrative from the inside out. Let's notice + nurture + embody the art and activism of soul care.
DOWNLOAD the journaling guide
Connect and discover more from our soul care publishing studio:
Email: andrea@mohawkmommastudio.com
Youtube: Mohawkmomma Studio
Instagram: @mohawkmommaloves
How to support my work?
1. Discover more on...2021-09-1711 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersPrologue - Write Your Soul Care Narrative [2019 Archive]Hello, Beautiful SOULjourner. We will revisit an archive episode from Fall 2019 to prep ourselves for the Write Your Soul Care Narrative series.
Together, we'll journal + pay attention to our soul care narrative from the inside out. Let's notice, nurture, and embody the art and activism of soul care.
Connect and discover more from our soul care publishing studio:
Pinterest: Mohawkmomma Studio
Linkedin: Andrea L. Palmer
Youtube: Mohawkmomma Studio
Instagram: @mohawkmommaloves
How to support my work?
2021-09-1621 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersArchival Reboot - Intro of Mohawkmomma Soul PodcastShalom, SOULjourners. Let's continue to notice + nurture + embody Sabbathing Rhythms™ as we travel back in time to my first year of podcasting. Let's tune in as we welcome ourselves home to these bodies—unapologetically—doing less harm to self + others.
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1. Discover more on my website + become a member of my new Social Media Forum, Revolutionary Embodiment—Social Media Reimagined!
2. Join my Patreon Collective.
3. Support the podcast monthly.
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Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersChapel Time - Align + Abide in Matthew 11:25-30Transformational connection through welcome is radical hospitality.
We are celebrating a new season - season 7, the number of rest + completion! So in 2021, let's rest as we move into revolutionary solidarity in soul care + self-care, healing, and meditation as we work (play) + rest in our personal and collective freedom. We walk out our joy + justice from the inside out—unquestionably, we all have a 'heart walk' that awaits.
Whether in our triumphs or trials, we can reimagine ourselves in our ongoing healing + belonging as we choose redemptive resistance to...2021-01-0352 min
Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersEnd of Day Restorative Guided MeditationDiscover the blog for the transcript.
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1. Join my Patreon Collective to support the podcast (and beyond) monthly.
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Mohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersDay 22 | Walk in The Word Bible Study SeriesThis is our last day in the Walk in the Word series. We are in the last lament portion of our Healing and Held devotion. Our focus is on Hannah in 1 Samuel chapter 1.
Together, let's notice, nurture, and embody this ancient lament. We are moving in radical self-care, healing, and meditation as we take it to the outdoors and walk for justice and joy. And for my sistahs whose physical walk is limited or absent, you are blessed and highly favored—unquestionably, we all have a 'heart walk' that awaits us.
2020-08-3035 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersDay 21 | Walk in The Word Bible Study SeriesWe are in the lament portion of our Healing and Held devotion. Our focus is on mourning women in Jeremiah chapter 9. Together, let's notice, nurture, and embody this ancient lament.
We are moving in radical self-care, healing, and meditation as we take it to the outdoors and walk for justice and joy. And for my sistahs whose physical walk is limited or absent, you are blessed and highly favored—unquestionably, we all have a 'heart walk' that awaits us.
Whether in our triumphs or trials, we can reimagine ourselves in our ongoing healing as we choose redemptive resistance to anything th...2020-08-2831 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersDay 20 | Walk in The Word Bible Study SeriesWe are in the lament portion of our Healing and Held devotion. Our focus is on Yeshua's (Jesus') lament in John chapter 11, verses 34 and 35. Together, let's notice, nurture, and embody this ancient lament.
We are moving in radical self-care, healing, and meditation as we take it to the outdoors and walk for justice and joy. And for my sistahs whose physical walk is limited or absent, you are blessed and highly favored—unquestionably, we all have a 'heart walk' that awaits us.
Whether in our triumphs or trials, we can reimagine ourselves in...2020-08-2513 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersDay 19 | Walk in The Word Bible Study SeriesWe are in the lament portion of our Healing and Held devotion. Our focus is on Jeremiah chapter 14, verses 19-22. Together, let's notice, nurture, and embody this ancient lament. We are moving in radical self-care, healing, and meditation as we take it to the outdoors and walk for justice and joy. And for my sistahs whose physical walk is limited or absent, you are blessed and highly favored—unquestionably, we all have a 'heart walk' that awaits us.
Whether in our triumphs or trials, we can reimagine ourselves in our ongoing healing as we ch...2020-08-2210 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersDay 18 | Walk in The Word Bible Study SeriesWe are in the lament portion of our Healing and Held devotion. Our focus is on Psalm 13. Together, let's notice, nurture, and embody lament. We are moving in radical self-care, healing, and meditation as we take it to the outdoors and walk for justice and joy. And for my sistahs whose physical walk is limited or absent, you are blessed and highly favored—unquestionably, we all have a 'heart walk' that awaits us.
Whether in our triumphs or trials, we can reimagine ourselves in our ongoing healing as we choose redemptive resistance to anything th...2020-08-2113 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersBonus - Writing my Lament | Walk in The Word Bible Study SeriesWe are in the lament portion of our Healing and Held devotion. I want to offer you more pastoral care + counsel in our focus: "Writing my lament." You will pen your personal lament from your belovedness—from belovedness.
Whether in our triumphs or trials, we can reimagine ourselves in our ongoing healing as we choose redemptive resistance to anything that doesn't flow from the heart of the Beloved Redeemer—Yeshua.
Resources:
- Get your copy of Healing + Held (softcover or hardcover) or the eBook.
- Bible Study Tools
Tony Evans Study Bible and/or Commentary
Logos Bible Software (Basic plan is f...2020-08-1109 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersDay 17 | Walk in The Word Bible Study SeriesWe are in the lament portion of our Healing and Held devotion. Our focus is "Writing my lament." You will be instructed to pen your personal lament. Together, let's notice, nurture, and embody lament. We are moving in radical self-care, healing, and meditation as we take it to the outdoors and walk for justice and joy. And for my sistahs whose physical walk is limited or absent, you are blessed and highly favored—unquestionably, we all have a 'heart walk' that awaits us.
Whether in our triumphs or trials, we can reimagine ourselves in our ongoing healing as we choose re...2020-08-1016 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersDay 15 | Walk in The Word Bible Study SeriesWe are in the lament portion of our Healing and Held devotion. Our focus is "Lament seeks justice." Today's episode is dedicated to Chloe Anthony Morrison aka "Toni Morrison." One year ago today she departed from us and left us with a legacy of "gathering the pieces" of on the path of wholeness—home—personally and communally.
Together, let's notice, nurture, and embody lament. We are moving in radical self-care, healing, and meditation as we take it to the outdoors and walk for justice and joy. And for my sistahs whose physical walk is limit...2020-08-0527 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersDay 14 | Walk in The Word Bible Study SeriesWe are in the lament portion of our Healing and Held devotion. In this episode, "Why" is our lament.
Today's episode is dedicated to the grieving community of El Paso, Tx after one year since the massacre at the local Wal-Mart. Together, let's notice, nurture, and embody lament. We are moving in radical self-care, healing, and meditation as we take it to the outdoors and walk for justice and joy. And for my sistahs whose physical walk is limited or absent, you are blessed and highly favored—unquestionably, we all have a 'heart walk' tha...2020-08-0422 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersDay 1 Walk in The Word Bonus | Wilderness MeditationWelcome to the "Walk in the Word" wilderness meditation, which pairs with week one in my book, Healing & Held. Together, let's notice, nurture, and embody radical self-care, healing, and meditation in this 22-Day walk for joy + justice—personally + communally. And for my sistahs whose physical walk is limited or absent, you are blessed and highly favored—unquestionably, we all have a 'heart walk' that awaits us.
Whether in our triumphs or trials, we can reimagine ourselves in our ongoing healing as we choose redemptive resistance to anything that doesn't flow from the heart of the...2020-07-2210 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersDay 13 | Walk in The Word Bible Study SeriesWe are in the lament portion of our Healing and Held devotion. "But you do not save!" is our lament. Together, let's notice, nurture, and embody lament. We are moving in radical self-care, healing, and meditation as we take it to the outdoors and walk for justice and joy. And for my sistahs whose physical walk is limited or absent, you are blessed and highly favored—unquestionably, we all have a 'heart walk' that awaits us.
Whether in our triumphs or trials, we can reimagine ourselves in our ongoing healing as we choose redemptive re...2020-07-1523 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersDay 12 | Walk in The Word Bible Study SeriesWe are in the lament portion of our Healing and Held devotion. How long is our lament. Together, let's notice, nurture, and embody lament. We are moving in radical self-care, healing, and meditation as we take it to the outdoors and walk for justice and joy. And for my sistahs whose physical walk is limited or absent, you are blessed and highly favored—unquestionably, we all have a 'heart walk' that awaits us.
Whether in our triumphs or trials, we can reimagine ourselves in our ongoing healing as we choose redemptive resistance to anything th...2020-07-1423 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersDay 11 | Walk in The Word Bible Study SeriesWe are transitioning to the lament portion in our Healing and Held devotion. Together, let's notice, nurture, and embody lament. We are moving in radical self-care, healing, and meditation as we take it to the outdoors and walk for justice and joy. And for my sistahs whose physical walk is limited or absent, you are blessed and highly favored—unquestionably, we all have a 'heart walk' that awaits us.
Whether in our triumphs or trials, we can reimagine ourselves in our ongoing healing as we choose redemptive resistance to anything that doesn't flow from the heart of the Beloved Redeemer—Yesh...2020-07-1323 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersDay 10 | Walk in The Word Bible Study SeriesTogether, let's notice, nurture, and embody some original poetry-imbued blessings scribbled by me, your embodiment pastor. We are moving in radical self-care, healing, and meditation as we take it to the outdoors and walk for justice and joy. And for my sistahs whose physical walk is limited or absent, you are blessed and highly favored—unquestionably, we all have a 'heart walk' that awaits us.
Whether in our triumphs or trials, we can reimagine ourselves in our ongoing healing as we choose redemptive resistance to anything that doesn't flow from the heart of the Be...2020-07-1023 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersDay 9 | Walk in The Word Bible Study SeriesTogether, let's notice, nurture, and embody some original poetry-imbued blessings scribbled by me, your embodiment pastor. We are moving in radical self-care, healing, and meditation as we take it to the outdoors and walk for justice and joy. And for my sistahs whose physical walk is limited or absent, you are blessed and highly favored—unquestionably, we all have a 'heart walk' that awaits us.
Whether in our triumphs or trials, we can reimagine ourselves in our ongoing healing as we choose redemptive resistance to anything that doesn't flow from the heart of the Beloved Redeemer—Yeshua.
Resources:
- Get your...2020-07-0719 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersIntroducing: The Mohawkmomma Soul PodcastShalom, I'm Mohawkmomma, Pastor Andrea, or Pastor Drea. This is not another podcast about the writing craft, instead, the focus is on pastoring the entire human embodiment in crafting an ongoing path to wholeness. This podcast centers the Beloved Messiah—Yeshua 'Jesus'. He cares about the soul care 'full embodiment' and self-care 'full noticing and nurture' of the writing soul.
Connect and discover more from our soul care publishing studio:
Pinterest: Mohawkmomma Studio
Linkedin: Andrea L. Palmer
YouTube: Mohawkmomma Studio
Instagram: @mohawkmommabooks and @mohawkmommaloves
2020-05-2701 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersBonus: A Meditation During The Coronavirus CrisisToday's invitation is to center ourselves down in this Psalm 42, breathing meditation during the Coronavirus crisis. You can come back to this meditation daily or as often as you need it.
The goal is to notice and engage the following: your breath, your current point of view, your view of pain, your view of your plans, and your view of pleasure.
Read the blog + Download the free 2-page meditation guide (meditation coloring activity included) designed by Andrea "Mohawkmomma."
Together let's pay attention to our so...2020-03-1714 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersPart 2 Let Your Life Speak - Thoughts on VocationShalom! We're on a soul care, embodied mission. It’s art and activism moving as one. Welcome to today's SOULbriety pilgrimage. Let's rest and reThink around this soul care campfire.
In Genesis 2:7, we find that humans are a "living soul." People don't have a nephesh, we are a nephesh.
In the Hebraic thought we are composed of multiple parts. The body is the flesh and bones, the vessel. Your spirit (the breath) enables and animates your personal presence. The organs are viewed as the seats of thought (the heart), emo...2019-02-2534 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersPart 1 Let Your Life Speak - Thoughts on VocationShalom! We're on a soul care, embodied mission. It’s art and activism moving as one. Welcome to today's SOULbriety pilgrimage. Let's rest and reThink around this soul care campfire.
In Genesis 2:7, we find that humans are a "living soul." People don't have a nephesh, we are a nephesh.
In the Hebraic thought we are composed of multiple parts. The body is the flesh and bones, the vessel. Your spirit (the breath) enables and animates your personal presence. The organs are viewed as the seats of thought (the heart), emotio...2019-02-1433 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersSoul Care In Your CalendarWe're on a soul care, embodied mission. It’s art and activism moving as one. Welcome to today's SOULbriety pilgrimage! Let's rest and reThink around this soul care campfire.
In Genesis 2:7, we find that humans are a "living soul." People don't have a nephesh, we are a nephesh.
In the Hebraic thought we are composed of multiple parts. The body is the flesh and bones, the vessel. Your spirit (the breath) enables and animates your personal presence. The organs are viewed as the seats of thought (the heart), emotion (the ki...2019-02-0524 minMohawkmomma Soul: Divergent Soul Care for Scribblers + Speakers + SeekersFascinate and Focus - Embody 2019We're on a soul care, embodied mission. It’s art and activism moving as one. Welcome to today's SOULbriety pilgrimage! We're back with our 30th episode of season four on the podcast. What's so significant about the embody title? I have a good reason for that...
In Genesis 2:7, we find that humans are a "living soul." People don't have a nephesh, we are a nephesh.
In the Hebraic thought we are composed of multiple parts. The body is the flesh and bones, the vessel. Your spirit (the breath) enables and...2019-01-2915 min
Miseducation of MomMOM #22 : Gracism and Racism - Pentecost ShalomIn today’s mini-episode, we’re standing at the last day of counting the Omer day 49, this eve of Pentecost.
Join me as we decelerate together and unLEARN to learn. ReEducate your HEARt and courageously reThink.
In this episode, I refer to the soul care self-assessment. Feel free to download the Life Voices SOULutions Worksheet. Visit: http://bit.ly/lifevoices
Give yourself space to contemplate the life voices that primarily inform you... closest friends, mentors, theologians, authors, music.
Soul Care Gracism Checkpoint Guide For the Body of Christ
This checkpoint guide is adapted from many hours of research, pastoral care, and...2018-05-2009 minMiseducation of MomMOM #21 : Disruptive Grace | Everyday, Small Harvest | Pt 2Welcome to today's count of Omer thirty-seven. We are in a new series, Everyday, Small Harvest. We are counting to honor the days leading up to Pentecost/Shavuot.
The Omer is a time of spiritual attunement and refinement. We are counting, just like the disciples... daring to trust, embrace, align, and wait for the coming harvest, as we bring in the small, everyday harvest of our inmost being. Let's allow the Holy Spirit to empower, nurture, and usher us into Jesus' Love story through His Love Letters for our reflection.
Join me as we decelerate together and unLEARN to learn...2018-05-0814 minMiseducation of MomMOM #20 : Everyday, Small Harvest | Pt 1Shabbat Shalom! Join me in a new series intro. Every year, we retrace an inner journey by “Counting of the Omer.” It’s a 49-meditation and blessing of transformation within the human soul. But we’re only doing 7-days in this week leading up to Pentecost (Shavuot, in Hebrew).
Tonight will be thirty-six days, which is five weeks and one day of the Omer. But we're not counting down.
One Rabbi states: "A countdown is when all you have standing between you and your goal is a certain amount of days. When the time passes, the goal is automatically achieved. You’re s...2018-05-0509 minMiseducation of MomMOM #19 : Belovedness & JoyEpisode 19 is about looking at our belovedness in light of joy. Before we read and savor Matthew 3:17 in this Lectio Divina unLEARNing adventure, we will take an aerial view to get started and look at the context.
Verse seventeen acts as the hinge for the verses that precede and follow it. This door is leading us into communion. Both sides of this door, baptisms, and wilderness will give us greater insight into our belovedness, and it will open us up to look for grace in every square inch of our lives, whether in the wilderness or not.
Join me as...2018-03-0723 minMiseducation of MomMOM #18 : Belovedness & VoicesIn this unLEARNing adventure, I revisit Matthew 3:17 to pilgrimage through the rhythms of Lectio Divina durig this Lent season. There are so many voices that capture our attention, but there's one voice from heaven eternally assuring us that we are forever beloved in the Beloved.
Join me as we decelerate together and unLEARN to learn. ReEducate your HEARt and courageously reThink.
Download the Lectio Divina mini coloring devotional.
Visit: http://bit.ly/lentlectiodivina
Discover more about my thoughts on a redemptive and creative process that is first and foremost God-referencing, but affects us deeply. visit: http://bit.ly/acreativeprocess
Let's...2018-02-2212 minMiseducation of MomMOM #17 : Belovedness & AshesIn this unLEARNing adventure, I invite you to pilgrimage with me in the rhythms of Lectio Divina throughout this Lent season. In any given moment Love will address our humanity (our dirt, our ashes) and He will affirm our belovedness, unquestionably. Our belonging is deeply rooted in Jesus’ belovedness and that’s real security and assurance that we can learn to lean into and become more deeply intimate in the dust and in the delightful places of living wholeheartedly. Join me as we decelerate together and unLEARN to learn. ReEducate your HEARt and courageously reThink. To download the Lectio Divina mini...2018-02-1520 minMiseducation of MomMOM #16 : Self-Compassion RSVPIn this unLEARNing adventure, I invite you to reconsider how you notice and acknowledge the gifts in your experiences with consolation and desolation.
In any given moment we have the freedom to choose how we will respond and react to consolation (things that make us feel alive and embraced) and desolation (things that anger us or drain our energy). What we can learn is how to expand our capacity to remember our freedom and our belonging in both those opportunities. Join me as we decelerate together and unLEARN to learn. ReEducate your HEARt and courageously reThink.
Download the Spring Mini...2018-02-0912 minMiseducation of MomMOM #15 : Season 4 BeginsI'm back and recovering well as I adapt to the rhythms of thriving despite living with chronic pain from my car collision. Our focus this season is on living in the moment and compassion from the inside out. Join me as we decelerate together and unLEARN to learn.
I have lots in store with my tribe for season four! Together, let's ReEducate our HEARts and courageously reThink as we welcome my special guest, my 4-year old daughter, Liberty. We're sitting down with a soul care storytime with the book, "The Three Questions", written by Jon J Muth. It's a story...2018-01-3010 minMiseducation of MomMOM #14 : TogethernessIn this unLEARNing adventure, I invite you to reconsider how you invite and cultivate togetherness within and without. Your child or your neighbor may have different approaches than you, but they desire belonging just like you. This is good to remember when engaging with a difficult person.
Togetherness is a mountain we must all climb in our families and in our spheres of influence. I'm identifying four togetherness enhancers and four that are blockers. Join me as we decelerate together and unLEARN to learn. ReEducate your HEARt and courageously reThink.
Together Is Better Than One, an illustrated book by Simon...2017-12-1611 minMiseducation of MomMOM #13 : Dreams and DetoursToday, you're in my kitchen with my son and I eating cereal. In this unLEARNing adventure, I invite you to reconsider how to allow dreams to inspire us, no matter what, especially in the face of detours. I share about the profound perspective we can to see our dream detours in a more favorable light. Our dreams are indeed ever with us, even if we bury them. Join me as we decelerate together and unLEARN to learn. ReEducate your HEARt and courageously reThink.
To connect with me and discover more, visit mohawkmommastudio.com.
Instagram: @mohawkmommaloves
Twitter: @mohawkmomma
Facebook: Mohawkmomma Studio
...2017-12-0808 minMiseducation of MomMOM #12 : Affirm With PoetryToday's unLEARNing adventure invites us to reconsider how poetry can help you express love and nurture to your child or loved one in the everyday. I share this idea with examples that we use in our family. Join me as we decelerate together and unLEARN to learn. ReEducate your HEARt and courageously reThink.
I recommended the website: readwritethink.org
It's a great resource whether you homeschool your child or partner with other educators.
Search for these four poetry apps mentioned in this episode:
1. Theme Poems
2. Dancing Minds and Shouting Smiles
3. Word Mover
4. Haiku Poem
To connect with me and discover...2017-12-0300 minMiseducation of MomMOM #11 : PerspectiveToday's unLEARNing adventure invites us to reconsider how contrast in life teaches us about hardships and our initial perspective about things. I share the story of my daughter's white crayon on whitepaper object lesson. Join me as we decelerate together and unLEARN to learn. ReEducate your HEARt and courageously reThink.
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Youtube: Mohawkmomma Studio2017-11-2803 minMiseducation of MomMOM #9 : Learning MotivationI received some insights from pediatric neurologist, Dr. Safi, about learning modalities and the principles of learning. I interview my 19-year old daughter, Annalisa. She shares her original short story on today's unlearning adventure. Let's decelerate together and unLEARN to learn. ReEducate your HEARt and courageously reThink.
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Youtube: Mohawkmomma Studio2017-11-2536 minMiseducation of MomMOM #8 : Don't Fill A BucketWelcome to season two. We have a new format. We're on an unlearning adventure. I encourage you to discover and bless the rhythms that can have a grace-pace for your soul. Let's decelerate together and unLEARN to learn. ReEducate your HEARt and courageously reThink.
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Youtube: Mohawkmomma Studio2017-11-2309 minMiseducation of MomMOM # 7 : Lent Can Help You Move Into RhythmsWelcome to episode seven. Lent, as do many holidays (holy days), have a way of affecting many of us. I encourage you to discover and bless the rhythms that can have a grace-pace for your soul. Let's decelerate together.2017-04-0320 minMiseducation of MomMOM #6 : Purim and Brave Esther - Doing it ScaredWelcome to episode six. We are still anchored in Lent, but we're also celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim, this weekend. Through Lectio Divina, we'll look at a 4-fold, divine template in Luke 22:19, and apply it to Esther's brave, yet scared encounter with God's providence, sovereignty, and control.2017-03-1223 minMiseducation of MomMOM #5 : Lent and Spring Holy Days - UnhurriedWe are launching season two around these parts. Welcome to another cycle of holy days. We will enter into Lent and the many other Spring holidays, in order to savor the reality of our earnest attachment to our Beloved, Jesus. Because I'm a mom of eight in the trenches of everyday life, you'll often hear my infant in the background. Soul Care is about the real and unvarnished. Nevertheless, rest is part of the program.2017-03-0517 minMiseducation of MomMOM #4 : Love Breathe Advent, Part 4 of 4We are coming to our last Advent breath, Love. As we come together to attend to our souls in the hustle of this time of year, we're pumping the brakes and enjoying the scenery of grace. We'll take deep breaths before, during and after our Lectio Divina time. Our focus is on the unstoppable nature of Perfect Love in an imperfect world. Love is so much more than an action, He's our Beloved God. Our Scripture is from Matthew 3:17, "And a voice came from heaven said, 'This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.'" Thankfully...2016-12-1717 minMiseducation of MomMINISODE #3 : Interview with Keith : Beautiful ImperfectionsIt was fun sitting down with my husband of 21 years. We're talking about continuing to date one another in order to nurture and strengthen the connection in our marriage, and how by doing so creates a stronger parenting unity. Keith also shares his heart about my beautiful imperfections in parenting our infant daughter, Emerald.2016-12-1205 minMiseducation of MomMOM #3 : Joy Breathe Advent, Part 3 of 4When you hear our Lectio Divina Scripture reading, I think you'll agree with me that this is such a fitting episode to have included my eighth child, Emerald, my 8-month-old. We are breathing in Joy, as we ponder in this third week of Advent. We are assured that the joy of the LORD is our strength. This joy derives from the heart of God. It is also a fruit of the Spirit. This Messianic joy engages and addresses both delight and despair, they can linger in the same heart, at the same time. Hebrews 12:2 sums it up best, "Because of...2016-12-1015 minMiseducation of MomMOM #2 : Peace (Shalom) Breathe Advent, Part 2 of 4The Prince of Peace enters into history gifting us with an undiminishing peace. Jesus' shalom is the kind of peace that ushers in a vulnerable baby, an unlikely King who brings completeness through His incarnation. He uses the unlikely, weak and small things to secure our eternal shalom.2016-12-0414 minMiseducation of MomMINISODE #2 : Interview with Tobias : Van Conversations + Making AssumptionsIn today's minisode MOM interview, I sit down with my 19-year-old son, Tobias. He openly shares how he enjoys connecting with me, and he responds candidly to the question, "What have you learned from a mistake I've made as your mom?"2016-12-0406 minMiseducation of MomMOM #1 : Hope Breathe Advent, Part 1 of 4In our first week of Advent, let's take a messianic moment to behold a hope associated with living waters. In this first episode, we’ll breathe in a long breath of a hope acquainted with lamenting. You'll take deep breaths to decelerate and savor God, during the Lectio Divina Scripture reading in the book of Lamentations. And you'll gain insight from an interview with my 11-year old daughter, Isaiah. She's not my only daughter, as mistakenly referred to in the intro, but she's the one and only Isaiah.2016-11-2718 min