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Be a hollow bone (vessel) for good to work through. You can honor your life and attract peace and prosperity through the art of self mastery. You can break intergen. cycles of trauma, you can reject nihilism, and you can make a meaningful difference in the story of well-being” (that will impact others who come after you). As we continue to feed the spirit of healing, the spirit of healing will nourish us in return.
— Mar 30, 2025 02:14PM
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Lexie Carroll
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Believing is Seeing: “when the world seems bleak, we can remember the cyclical nature of the universe, and we can believe in regeneration.” Choosing this belief (and then acting on it) is important not just for our own benefit, but also for those to come. “Your children and descendants depend on your optimism. A world in balance is possible, but it has to be believed in order to be seen.”
— Mar 30, 2025 02:04PM
Lexie Carroll
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“The connection we foster between ourselves and our food is a lifelong quest.
Hunting and eating meat perfectly exemplifies what I call the most fascinating paradox of our existence: in order for one life to be nourished, the life of others must end in some way and at some time.”
Life must end in order to sustain life. Death sustains life; death feeds life.
— Mar 24, 2025 07:13PM
Hunting and eating meat perfectly exemplifies what I call the most fascinating paradox of our existence: in order for one life to be nourished, the life of others must end in some way and at some time.”
Life must end in order to sustain life. Death sustains life; death feeds life.
Lexie Carroll
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“Food goes beyond just nutritional value. It is a physical expression of how we as humans are vulnerable in and dependent on the natural world. That is the core of our spiritual relationship to food.”
The fact that we need to eat food, daily, constantly throughout our lives, illustrates the deep dependence we have on Mother Nature & the Earth. How easily we dissociate from this dependence and its implications!
— Mar 24, 2025 07:06PM
The fact that we need to eat food, daily, constantly throughout our lives, illustrates the deep dependence we have on Mother Nature & the Earth. How easily we dissociate from this dependence and its implications!
Lexie Carroll
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4. Grow: (-ing) food is an inherently spiritual process. Some say a person should learn to grow food before having children, because it will prepare that person to devote time, energy, patience, attention and effort into another life.
6. Cook: (-ing) makes us human. It is like a ceremony. Feeding someone food to nourish their health is one of the most loving things you can do for a person (also for self).
— Mar 23, 2025 02:20PM
6. Cook: (-ing) makes us human. It is like a ceremony. Feeding someone food to nourish their health is one of the most loving things you can do for a person (also for self).
Lexie Carroll
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2. Hunt/Fish: when done responsibly and ethically it can be humane and even intimate, truly fostering a relationship between Hunter and hunted. Proper preparation starts with the mind: honor, reverence, and recognizing food as sacred.
3. Foraging helps align us with the seasons and the land we’re on: over time the plant nations put new teachings in our consciousness, and we grow a sense of connectedness.
— Mar 23, 2025 02:13PM
3. Foraging helps align us with the seasons and the land we’re on: over time the plant nations put new teachings in our consciousness, and we grow a sense of connectedness.
Lexie Carroll
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1. Give Thanks:
Everyone can do this no matter your situation or the resources you do/don’t have. No matter what food you’re eating you can be spiritually mindful of it. Being present with your food is a great way to demonstrate this gratitude, (also thinking about the hands & processes that got the food to your table). All food was once a living thing so give thanks for that life that now nourishes your own.
— Mar 16, 2025 01:59PM
Everyone can do this no matter your situation or the resources you do/don’t have. No matter what food you’re eating you can be spiritually mindful of it. Being present with your food is a great way to demonstrate this gratitude, (also thinking about the hands & processes that got the food to your table). All food was once a living thing so give thanks for that life that now nourishes your own.
Lexie Carroll
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Seven Actions of Indigenous Foodways:
1. Give Thanks
2. Hunt & Fish
3. Forage
4. Grow food
5. Shop mindfully
6. Cook
7. Breastfeed (or support Feeding Freedom)
— Mar 16, 2025 01:54PM
1. Give Thanks
2. Hunt & Fish
3. Forage
4. Grow food
5. Shop mindfully
6. Cook
7. Breastfeed (or support Feeding Freedom)
Lexie Carroll
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Food as Sacred:
A sacred relationship with food was once ubiquitous before capitalist-driven convenience culture. Food is a living, life-giving entity. Reclaiming autonomy over food practices (growing, harvesting, gathering, hunting) means spending more time on & with the land, which is spiritually fulfilling. Food is an important part of daily personal health care. We all have the power to use food as medicine.
— Mar 16, 2025 01:39PM
A sacred relationship with food was once ubiquitous before capitalist-driven convenience culture. Food is a living, life-giving entity. Reclaiming autonomy over food practices (growing, harvesting, gathering, hunting) means spending more time on & with the land, which is spiritually fulfilling. Food is an important part of daily personal health care. We all have the power to use food as medicine.
Lexie Carroll
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Food:
“The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what we must eat to live… the gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on… it is here that children are given instructions on what it means to be human.”
-Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Creek), from The Woman Who Fell From the Sky
— Mar 16, 2025 01:13PM
“The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what we must eat to live… the gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on… it is here that children are given instructions on what it means to be human.”
-Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Creek), from The Woman Who Fell From the Sky
Lexie Carroll
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Some dreams and experiences take years, even decades, to make sense of. This notion reflects the understanding that exists in Native culture that because we are only human it is unfathomable to think that we can understand the immensity of the universe. We don’t seek answers in everything. We seek questions.
Remain humble, zoom out to the bigger picture to see your place in the universe, and simply be present.
— Mar 16, 2025 01:03PM
Remain humble, zoom out to the bigger picture to see your place in the universe, and simply be present.
