How to Find Wellness in Indigenous Wisdom with Chelsea Luger & Thosh Collins
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Chelsey Luger is a writer and wellness advocate originally from North Dakota, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She got her undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College, concentrating on comparative histories of global Indigenous cultures, and later earned an M.S. in Digital Media at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She is the co-founder of Well For Culture. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Huffington Post, Yes! Magazine, and other outlets.
Thosh Collins is a photographer, board member for the Native Wellness Institute, and co-founder of Well For Culture. He is On Akimel O'odham, Seneca-Cayuga, and Osage, born and raised on the Salt River Reservation. He serves on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Land Board, and remains politically and culturally active within his community.
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Chelsea Luger & Thosh Collins and I Discuss How to Find Wellness in Indigenous Wisdom and ...
- Their book, The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well
- Beginning everything with gratitude is a key to our wellness journey
- Accepting the challenges and finding balance
- Chelsea's story of the dust storm and teaching resilience
- Focusing on solution based thinking for indigenous cultures to heal and thrive
- Expanding the common narrative of indigenous cultures to show resilience rather than brokenness
- Understanding the harm of cultural appropriation
- Keeping their cultural and spiritual practices private and sacred
- The seven circles include our connections to food, sleep, movement, ceremony, sacred space, community, and land.
- How the symbol of the medicine wheel represents interconnectedness of mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional
- Finding ways to integrate the circles of wellness
- Connecting to land is about remembering that we are not separate from nature
- Noticing and acknowledging the natural elements of this earth
- Adapting a subsistence world view
- How connecting emotion to day to day rituals creates the element of ceremony
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| 0:00.0 | The seven circles, as well as your spiritual, physical, mental, emotional state of being, |
| 0:05.0 | they're inextricably connected. And if you think of them in a visual sense, |
| 0:08.7 | if you grab one and you wobble it, it's going to move everything else. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the one-new feed. |
| 0:22.0 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:26.5 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. And yet, for many of us |
| 0:33.6 | our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, |
| 0:40.0 | or fear. We see what we don't have, instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back |
| 0:45.6 | and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, |
| 0:52.0 | consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people |
| 0:57.7 | keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
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| 1:51.2 | Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Chelsea Luger and Thosh Collins. |
| 1:56.2 | Chelsea is a writer and wellness advocate originally from North Dakota. |
| 2:00.5 | She's an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band-Up Chippewa and descendant of the |
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