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Grounding Tips

Q: What grounds you? If you want to know what grounds me, it’s my family, it’s my friend, it’s my community. Knowing that I can be there for them and they will 100% be there for me. It’s reciprocal. It’s prayer. It is culture. It is the continuity. It’s the…
Answered by Grandma Nay
Topics: Life Tips, Relationships

Can I Get an Elder?

Q: Where can I find Elders that I can talk to? We are everywhere! We’re at pow-wows. We’re at ceremonials. We’re on the reservation. We’re in urban settings. We’re in rural settings. We are going places and meeting people and going to dances and songs. And we’re going to coastal…
Answered by Grandma Nay
Topics: Culture and Language, Life Tips, Relationships

Native In the City Blues

Q: How can I connect to my culture when I live in the city? Go to as many events as you can. Find friends in your community who are also Native, who are maybe your age or maybe a little bit older who can offer you some mentorship and some…
Answered by Grandma Nay
Topics: Culture and Language

Approaching Elders

Q: How can I approach an Elder? You approach an elder with respect. Historically among my people, the Cheyenne, we would put a piece of lump of coal in front of an Elder, especially if they were a person who’d been through our ceremonies to protect them from anything we…
Answered by Grandma Nay
Topics: Culture and Language, Relationships

My Relationships

Q: What does a healthy Relationship look like to you? I want to start by saying that I have not had enough examples of healthy relationships in my life. But I have seen beautiful, beautiful relationships and I’ve always wondered, you know, what that was like and what that meant.…
Answered by Sister Q
Topics: Relationships

I Believe in Affirmations!

Q: Do you believe in affirmations? I know it’s corny, but I truly believe that affirmations make a huge difference in creating the life you want to live. What you tell yourself is what you’ll end up truly believing and living. And you know, if you tell yourself that I’m…
Answered by Sister Q
Topics: Life Tips, Mental Health

Going for it!

Q: I’m struggling with taking the leap and following my passion and know I’ll be okay. How do you decide when to just go for it? At the end of the day, you have to take those opportunities because they’re there for a reason and they are calling you. I…
Answered by Sister Q
Topics: Life Tips

Connect with Elders

Q: How do I connect with Elders? When you’re trying to find the words to even talk to an Elder, when you get to that point, I think it’s important to remember that our knowledge, our practices, and our culture are so rich and are so beautiful and carry so…
Answered by Sister Q
Topics: Culture and Language, Relationships

Be Like Water

Q: I’ve heard stories about why we should be like water, do you have any water stories you could share? One of the most beautiful teachings that I had someone share with me was that our bodies are like water; if you don’t cry when you need to and you…
Answered by Sister Q
Topics: Life Tips, Mental Health

Enjoy Myself More

Q: How can I enjoy being alone more? I think if you can really enjoy being alone and really enjoy your own company that will make a huge difference in the quality of your life. Life will just be better. Because when you do, you realize that you don’t need…
Answered by Sister Q
Topics: Life Tips, Mental Health
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