Dying From or Living With: Cancer Reimagined
My first awareness of cancer as something to fear was when I was eleven and visiting my mother’s parents in New Zealand. We traveled from Montreal, Canada, to spend the holidays with my mother’s parents. It rained a lot during that visit, and my younger brother had a cold. Because he had a cold and because my grandfather was dying from cancer, my grandfather stayed in his room, and we were not allowed to see him, “In case you get him sick,” the adults told us. My grandfather was an engineer with Boeing Airlines, and he, along with the other engineers, was exposed to various chemicals...
Read MoreForaging for the Beginner
The definition of foraging is to go from place to place to search for food or other items, whether in the wild or an urban setting. I consider myself very fortunate to have grown up in a foraging family. We didn’t forage because we needed the wonderfully delicious wild foods we found in our local forests, beaches, and roadsides; we foraged because we loved being out in nature and for the thrill of finding, harvesting, and eating healthy, accessible, and organic wild foods. Embarking on the journey into foraging wild foods can be daunting; it’s a vast subject with lots to learn. So many...
Read MoreHeartbreak, Healing and Happiness
Megan Edge Master Healer, Author, Educator, Public Speaker & International Radio Host Megan Edge Master Healer, Author, Educator, Public Speaker & International Radio Host MeganEdge.ca LinkedIn or FaceBook Listen to Megan on Transformation Talk Radio Read Megan in Island Woman...
Read MoreAncient Healing Wisdom – Home Energy Clearing
Do you love the energy in your home? Is your home a place of refuge for you? Does the energy in your home feel nourishing and supportive? Your home should be a sacred space for you and your family. If it isn’t, a full Home Energy Clearing may be just the thing to help your household get back on track! Space holds energy! Have you ever walked into someone’s home and felt instantly better, welcomed and embraced? That’s some good energy! But even the most welcoming home needs a good energy cleaning every once and a while. With so many of us now working from home there’s a lot more energy...
Read MoreAncient Healing Wisdom – Energy Space Clearing
Did you know that your energy, the energy of others and of events can settle into your home, office, even the earth? As we move through these days of Covid and so many of us are staying in our homes, our energy is collecting and pooling around us, with the potential to become stagnant, blocked and even emotionally toxic. Living in close proximity to each other over long periods of time can strain even the healthiest relationships. If you’re finding yourself feeling overwhelmed, despondent, touchy, irritable or under the weather, the solution could be to move those blues with a vigorous...
Read MoreForces of Nature
My mother visits twice a day, at 11:11, since the day she died, 20 years ago. My father comes to me in the guise of a Hummingbird, at least once a day, if not more. There was a Hummingbird on the sign they put on his room the day we took him off life support, almost a year ago. I was already relating him to the Humming Birds who were fliting around my place in such numbers in his final weeks. When I asked the nurse why the Humming Bird sign was on his door she was quiet at first, as if deciding what to tell me. She chose honesty, for which I was grateful. “It’s to tell the staff not to...
Read MoreThere are many roads to wellness
and we each arrive from different places and routes. Mine has always been a quest for understanding how we can be better – better health, mental wellness and nourishing our bodies. I feel very fortunate to have grown up in a foraging family. As an infant, my parents would put me in the backpack carrier and bring me along on all of their forest and beach walks. We collected everything from wild mushrooms, clams, fish, and berries to Fiddleheads, wild garlic and Maple sap. Native herbs and edible flowers were collected for salads, soups and to be dried for Winter use. I lived in the big...
Read MoreHolding on by a Thread
We humans are both fragile and resilient. This has been brought home to me vividly as I recently watched my father fight for his life. His wish was to live, to continue to enjoy life to its fullest. He was a strong, healthy man, until he wasn’t. My father loved the good life; family, friends, good food and conversation and nature in all its abundance. He loved providing for those around him with fresh fish, home grown vegetables and all manner of food foraged from local forests and shorelines. He grew up on the West Coast of Canada with deep ties to the wild and he traveled the world,...
Read MoreSpreading my Wings, Standing Still
Sometimes the best action you can take, is to take none at all. There is strength is standing still. We’re such an action-oriented culture that we can miss out on the wisdom that comes to us only in the silence and stillness of non-action. Many well-meaning people have suggested over the years that I slow down; that I put too much on my plate; that just watching me do all the things I do, leaves them feeling tired. “I don’t know how you do it all!” is something I often hear. I enjoy being busy. I enjoy the challenge of sitting down in the morning and putting my Can-Do List on...
Read MoreThe Act of Doing Nothing
We live in a culture of doing. We are on constant full throttle, multitasking, carrying on four different conversations at once, thoughts flying a hundred miles an hour. And all this busyness is a wonderful coping mechanism for not dealing with or looking at the things in our lives that need shifting. I hear so often from clients and students that they are unable to meditate, or slow down long enough to hear their Inner Wisdom. Yet they are determined to develop their intuition and psychic abilities, hoping to not have to slow down to do it. I know this challenge. I could blame...
Read MoreMother and Healer
We build bridges every day, between opposing sides of the same thing. One of my goals as a Healer, is to build bridges between alternative and conventional medicine, so people can benefit from both. These days I’m building a different bridge, one between being a Healer and being a Mother. I believe that as a Mother, I’m inherently a Healer. Every Mother is. The cough syrup company, Robitussin, capitalized on this with their Dr. Mom commercials in the 1990’s. Dr. Mom knows best, right? My experiences recently with conventional medicine would say otherwise. My oldest daughter is in a...
Read More“In a time out of time.”
Many years ago, I was in a Past Life Regression session with a client, when we came across a lifetime of hers where she had lived in a small village, deep in a tropical rainforest. When I asked her Past Life self when and where she was, her reply was, “In a time out of time.” Curious, right? Upon deeper questioning, it was revealed that her past self had no way to relate to our current concept of linear, industrial time. The jungle she lived in didn’t have seasons, life moved at a different pace and while her life’s experiences were relatable – love, children, social...
Read MoreGrandmother Spider
Spiders. Do you love them or loath them? There are over 40,000 different speicies of spiders living everywhere in the world except Antarctica. They range in size from tiny, to almost the size of a small puppy. Almost all of them have a poisonious bite. There are even spiders that catch and eat birds! They have been here for the last 380 million years and without them, we’d be drowning in bugs. Whether the thoughts of spiders makes your skin crawl or you find them fascinating, there’s also a spiritual side to spiders – at least if you’re human. It’s a part of the human condition that...
Read MoreWhat Kind of Healer are You?
You’ve heard me say, “The World Needs Healers” and “If you think you’re a Healer, then you ARE a Healer!” But what kind of Healer are you? There are so many ways to show up in the world to be of service, to make a difference in your own life and the lives of others. I was shown in a dream recently three kinds of Healers and I love how these designations flow so well together. There are many ways of being a Healer and doing healing work; this is one way to simplify what kind of Healer you are: Mentor Healer When you come to a place in your life and your skin feels too tight, when...
Read MoreUnstructured Time
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Divination means “…the art or practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by the interpretation of omens, with the aid of supernatural powers & insight or intuitive perception.” The art of Divination has been practiced around the world for tens of thousands of years by all cultures. Some of the earliest human records at ancient archaeological sites point to the use of tools created to predict the future or to better understand the present. Pieces of bird bones or special rocks or shells have...
Read MoreSacredness Of Giving & Receiving
It is at this time of year that many heated discussions arise on the touchy subject of gift giving, gift receiving and the materialism of the season. Have you had these conversations? Which side are you on – the side which says gifts can be a fun and meaningful way of expressing your friendship, love or appreciation for someone, or the side which sees only the commercialism and materialism in giving and receiving gifts at this time of year? This is a subject dear and close to my heart, mainly because I love giving gifts. And truth be told, I love receiving them as well. I grew up in a...
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