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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “We don't heal in isolation, but in community.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell, Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
    tags: community, healing, isolation, ptsd, shamanism, support, trauma
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Sacred space” is another way of saying “with intention.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell, Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism
    tags: intention, paganism, sacred-space, shamanism
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Being a medium who can communicate with souls isn't the same as one who can interact with them. It's the difference between listening in on a conversation and changing the subject.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell, Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism
    tags: mediumship, psychic, shaman, shamanism, teen-spirituality
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Learning shamanism isn’t just about acquiring techniques in how to do it, but also how to incorporate and deal with the
    changes it brings to everyday life.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell, Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism
    tags: modern-shamanism, shamanic-journeying, shamanism, spiritual-crisis, spiritual-emergency
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Despite its prominence now, you don’t stumble onto the path of shamanism. That odd trail blazes itself to you.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell, Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism
    tags: modern-shamanism, shamanism, spiritual-path
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: editing
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell, Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
    tags: abuse-survivors, healing, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, ptsd, shamanism, support, survivors, trauma
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell, Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism
    tags: animism, children-and-shamanism, empathy, imagination, modern-shamanism, shamanism, teen-shamanism
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “When I say ‘practice’ I don’t mean
    repeating an act until you get it right. In this use, it means to instill regular discipline to accomplish a specific task, ritual without which we feel incomplete, or that our experience of each day is less.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell, Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism
    tags: mindfulness, mindfulness-practice, modern-shamanism, practice, practicing-magick, shamanism, spiritual-discipline
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Even in woo woo circles, shamanism is the fringe of the fringe.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell, Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism
    tags: fringe, modern-shamanism, shamanism, spirituality
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Miraculously recover or die. That's the extent of our cultural bandwidth for chronic illness.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: chronic-illness, disability, dynamic-disability
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell, Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism
    tags: cultural-appropriation, indigenous-peoples, modern-shamanism, racism, shamanism, spiritual-tourism
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Editing is the very edge of your knowledge forced to grow--a test you can't cheat on.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: editing
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: anthropology
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “The rhythm of researching and querying holds all the fascination, endorphins, and residual scarring of picking a scab. It's a habit I easily fall into but without more than surface level ambition driving it can turn into a haphazard, oozing mess.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: querying
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “That we don't remember the beginning or the ending of dreams is our unconscious reminding us that it's all about the process.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: dreams
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Clear synapses are like driving in Ireland. You hit a straight-away
    and you gun it, cos you know it's not going to last long.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: clarity-of-thought
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Should be" will always be a long road.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: should
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “We're all latchkey kids a threshold from peace.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: peace
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “I'm ADD and psychic. I know things ahead of time but lose track of which is which.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: adhd, psychic
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “I function as an asterisk in the limbic system.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: limbic-system
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “I don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing--including myself.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: science-vs-religion, shamanism, spirituality
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Learning shamanism solely from a book is like running with a razor sharp Ouija board.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: ouija, shamanism
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Divination is the ketchup of shamanism.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell, Gift Of The Dreamtime: Awakening To The Divinity Of Trauma
    tags: shamanism
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Too many irons, not enough fire.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: hard-work, writing, writing-life
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  • #26
    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Occasionally I ponder all the things I'd have time to notice if I had more free time.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: work-ethic
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “If a wound was all that was required to be a shaman, we'd all be one. If wounds were required, no one would be.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: shamanism, wounds
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “The way other people practiced a sport, learned a dance, I sat with feelings to learn who I am.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell, Gift Of The Dreamtime: Awakening To The Divinity Of Trauma
    tags: shamanism
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “Being healed means committing to use your resources and knowledge.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell
    tags: healing, shamanism
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    S. Kelley Harrell
    “We're all bit of relaxation away from being Gods and Goddesses.”
    ― S. Kelley Harrell, Gift Of The Dreamtime: Awakening To The Divinity Of Trauma
    tags: shamanism
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