Granddaughter Crow: Shamanism and your Shadow

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Work with your shadows from a shamanistic point of view with Granddaughter Crow's four-step system.Organized by the four cardinal directions and the animal guides associated with each one―raven, snake, owl, and wolf―this book helps you find the beauty within your shadow without fear or shame. Each of the four main chapters features a variety of ways to explore each direction and animal through guided meditation and trance work.Discover stories, exercises, and journal prompts that enhance your journey. Delve into the shadow medicine wheel; study how the time of day, season, and landscape impact your experiences; and use tools that become extensions of yourself. Granddaughter Crow provides everything you need to approach, recognize, understand, and accept your shadow.

Granddaughter Crow (Dr. Joy Gray) is an author, medicine woman, public speaker, teacher, and intuitive reader. Descended from a long line of spiritual leaders, she is an empath, medium, and member of the Navajo Nation. She was voted Woman of the Year in 2015 by the National Association of Professional Women (NAPW). Visit her at GranddaughterCrow.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Destiny. Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning.
0:27.7	Destiny is tools for transformation, meaning that we are offering you ways to look at your shadow, your trauma, the parts that aren't working necessarily, both mental, physical,
0:34.1	and spiritual, so that you can tune up, that you can be the best that you can be and succeed
0:40.7	and be successful.
0:43.5	Hey, this is Cliff, your host of destiny.
0:46.2	And today, talking about a indigenous way to look at the shadow, another word for trauma.
0:54.5	And we've talked about ancestral trauma.
0:57.1	We've talked about personal trauma.
0:59.2	And this is also considered the shadow.
1:02.2	The view we are taking today is shamanistic trauma relief.
1:09.4	And that means identifying what's bothering you, and that can be
1:14.3	depression. I'm depressed about my job. I'm depressed about my relationship. I'm just depressed
1:21.2	generally working on that. That's a, that's a form of trauma. Another big one is, and this doesn't come up very often,
1:29.1	but ancestral trauma, the trauma of your parents, your grandparents, your great-grandparents,
1:35.8	and how it can bleed into your present reality, and you don't even know about it. And this is
1:42.6	something that we don't discuss enough about
1:45.3	because if it's in your DNA, how are you going to know?
1:49.7	Unless you're feeling sensitive about how people react to you.
1:53.6	Maybe it's the color of your skin.
1:55.5	Maybe it's your background.
1:58.9	Maybe it's things that are completely out of your control. And so when people are
2:04.4	looking down at you and reacting in a certain manner, makes you feel uncomfortable, that is a form of
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