ShamanBearclaw

01/08/2026

I strongly encourage daily journaling and here is why...

Dᴀɪʟʏ ᴊᴏᴜʀɴᴀʟɪɴɢ is one of the simplest habits with some of the most profound effects on emotional wellbeing, self awareness, and personal growth. It is much more than writing down your thoughts. It is creating a conversation with yourself that many people have never truly had.
When you journal consistently, you begin to notice patterns that were previously invisible. You recognise what triggers your stress, what brings you joy, what drains your energy, and what helps you feel more like yourself. This awareness is the foundation of meaningful change because you cannot change what you do not first notice.
Journaling also helps quieten mental chatter. Your brain is designed to hold onto unfinished thoughts, worries, and problems. Writing them down acts like emptying an overflowing drawer. Many people report feeling lighter, calmer, and more focused after only a few minutes of writing because their thoughts are no longer competing for attention.
Research by psychologist Dr. James Pennebaker found that expressive writing can reduce stress, improve immune function, and even enhance emotional recovery following difficult experiences. Writing allows the brain to organise emotions into a coherent story, making overwhelming experiences feel more manageable.
Journaling strengthens emotional intelligence by helping you identify and name your feelings instead of simply reacting to them. Neuroscientist Dr. Matthew Lieberman found that putting emotions into words reduces activity in the brain’s emotional alarm system while increasing activity in areas responsible for self regulation.
It also builds resilience. Looking back through previous journal entries reminds you of challenges you have already survived. It becomes evidence that you are stronger than you often give yourself credit for.
A daily journal creates space for gratitude, which has repeatedly been linked to greater happiness and lower levels of anxiety. Even recording three things you appreciate each day gradually trains your brain to notice what is going well instead of focusing only on problems.
Journaling encourages intentional living. Rather than allowing each day to happen to you, it helps you ask questions such as:

* What do I need today?
* What matters most?
* How do I want to respond rather than react?
These small moments of reflection gradually shape your decisions and your future.
For people recovering from trauma, burnout, grief, or chronic stress, journaling can gently reconnect them with themselves. It becomes a safe place where every thought is welcome and nothing has to be hidden or judged.
Over time, journaling can help you:
* Increase self awareness.
* Reduce anxiety and mental overwhelm.
* Improve emotional regulation.
* Recognise unhealthy patterns.
* Strengthen confidence and self trust.
* Clarify goals and values.
* Process difficult emotions.
* Boost creativity and problem solving.
* Improve memory and learning.
* Cultivate gratitude and optimism.
* Deepen your relationship with yourself.
The most important thing about journaling is not how beautifully you write or how much you fill each page. It is the consistency of showing up for yourself. Five honest minutes every day will often create more lasting transformation than one hour once a month.
As I often tell my own clients, healing rarely arrives through dramatic breakthroughs. More often, it comes through hundreds of small moments of honest self reflection. Every page you write is another step towards understanding yourself, accepting yourself, and becoming the person you were always meant to be.
~ Shaman Bearclaw

01/08/2026

Wʜᴇɴ Cᴀʀɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʀ Oᴛʜᴇʀs Mᴇᴀɴs Aʙᴀɴᴅᴏɴɪɴɢ Yᴏᴜʀsᴇʟꜰ

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that sleep cannot fix.

It is the tiredness that comes from spending years carrying other people’s emotions while quietly ignoring your own. It is answering every message, solving every problem, holding everyone together, and somehow believing your own needs can wait just a little longer.

For many people this does not feel like self sacrifice. It simply feels normal.

The truth is that very few of us are born believing we matter less than everyone else. We learn it.

As children our brains are designed for survival before they are designed for happiness. The developing nervous system constantly asks one question: What must I do to stay safe and connected?

If a child grows up in an unpredictable home, with emotionally unavailable caregivers, frequent conflict, criticism, neglect, or even parents who depend upon them emotionally, the child’s brain begins adapting. It discovers that anticipating other people’s needs can reduce danger. Becoming helpful, quiet, agreeable, or responsible may increase the chances of receiving love, approval, or simply avoiding rejection.

Neuroscientists call this neuroplasticity. The brain literally reshapes itself according to repeated experiences. Neural pathways that help us survive become stronger with repetition. What begins as a coping strategy eventually becomes an automatic way of living.

This is why so many adults say, “I don’t know why I always put everyone else first.”

Their brain learned to do it decades ago.

Trauma specialists also describe another survival response that receives far less attention than fight, flight, or freeze.

It is called the fawn response, first described by psychotherapist Pete Walker. Rather than confronting danger or escaping it, the nervous system attempts to survive through pleasing, appeasing, and meeting the emotional needs of others.

People experiencing a chronic fawn response often become exceptionally kind, empathetic, dependable, and emotionally intuitive. These are beautiful qualities. The problem arises when they exist at the expense of the self.

The nervous system begins believing:

“If everyone else is okay, then I am safe.”

Unfortunately, safety achieved this way never lasts.

Modern neuroscience helps explain why.

The amygdala, the brain’s alarm centre, constantly scans for signs of danger. In people who have experienced chronic stress or emotional trauma, this alarm system can become hypersensitive. Neutral facial expressions may be interpreted as anger. Silence may feel like rejection. Disagreement may feel like abandonment.

At the same time, the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for thoughtful decision making and emotional regulation, becomes harder to access during periods of stress. Instead of consciously choosing how to respond, people automatically fall back on familiar survival patterns.

They apologise when they have done nothing wrong.

They over explain.

They rescue.

They overcommit.

They say yes while every part of them wants to say no.

Their nervous system is not choosing weakness.

It is choosing familiarity.

Research consistently links chronic people pleasing, emotional suppression, and prolonged activation of the body’s stress response with increased anxiety, depression, burnout, weakened immune function, digestive disorders, disrupted sleep, and chronic pain. The body remembers what the mind learns to ignore.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆.

Neuroplasticity means the same brain that learned to survive by abandoning itself can also learn to feel safe without doing so.

That healing begins with awareness, but it rarely ends there.

If you have spent decades living this way, simply deciding to have better boundaries is often not enough. Your mind may understand what needs to change while your nervous system still reacts as though saying no is dangerous.

This is where deep healing work becomes transformational.

Through my mentoring, we gently explore where these patterns first began, how they became wired into your nervous system, and why they continue to repeat in your relationships today. Together we work to rebuild your relationship with yourself, not through judgement or forcing change, but through understanding, self awareness, nervous system regulation, and compassionate practice.

As a shamanic mentor, I also explore the deeper layers that many people feel but cannot explain. The beliefs you inherited, the roles you unconsciously accepted, the energetic patterns you continue to carry, and the parts of yourself that learned they had to stay small in order to belong.

This work is not about becoming less caring.

It is about learning to care without losing yourself.

It is about recognising that your worth has never depended upon how much you sacrifice.

It is about discovering that boundaries are not rejection.

They are self respect.

You do not need to become a different person.

You simply need permission to become the person you were before survival convinced you that your needs mattered least.

One of the greatest privileges of my work is witnessing that moment when someone realises they no longer feel responsible for everyone else’s happiness. They begin speaking with confidence instead of apology. They stop seeking permission to exist. They no longer carry the weight of relationships that were never theirs to hold.

That freedom is possible for you too.

You are not broken.

You adapted.

And what was learned in survival can be gently unlearned through safety, understanding, and consistent support.

You deserve relationships where you are loved for who you are, not for everything you do.

Because the way you care for people should never come at the cost of abandoning yourself.

~ Shaman Bearclaw

30/07/2026

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30/07/2026

Isnt this just beautiful ❤️

26/07/2026

Aʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ Sᴏᴜʟs Wᴇ Mᴇᴇᴛ Aʟʀᴇᴀᴅʏ Wʀɪᴛᴛᴇɴ ⵊɴᴛᴏ Oᴜʀ Sᴛᴏʀʏ?

For more than forty years I have devoted my life to working with spirit. Throughout those years I have asked countless questions, not only about healing and guidance, but about what happens before we are born, what happens after we die, and why certain people enter our lives with such extraordinary significance.

The understanding I share here does not come from scientific research. It comes from four decades of conversations with spirit, from thousands of readings, healing sessions, and moments of quiet communion. As with all spiritual teachings, you are invited to reflect upon it and decide what resonates with your own heart.

One of the most profound insights spirit has shared with me is that there are no accidental meetings.

Before incarnation, we are shown the opportunities available to our soul. We are not forced into a single path, but we choose the experiences that will offer the greatest opportunity for growth. We choose the themes our soul wishes to explore, perhaps forgiveness, courage, compassion, boundaries, trust, grief, unconditional love, or self worth.

No soul makes this journey alone.

Spirit has shown me that we belong to what many traditions call a soul group. These are souls who journey together across many lifetimes, meeting again and again in different forms. The mother who nurtures you in one lifetime may return as your daughter in another. A lifelong friend may once have been your teacher. Someone who broke your heart may previously have been the one who protected yours.

The roles change, but the love and commitment to one another’s evolution remain.

From the perspective of spirit, every incarnation is like stepping onto a stage. Before the curtain rises, souls agree to play certain parts for one another. Some volunteer to bring joy. Some choose to offer safety. Others take on the far more difficult role of creating challenge, because they know those experiences may awaken strength, wisdom, or compassion that could not have emerged any other way.

This does not mean every painful experience is easy to understand, nor does it diminish the reality of suffering. While we live as human beings, grief, betrayal, loss, and heartbreak are deeply real. Yet spirit consistently reminds me that the soul often sees purpose where the human heart sees only pain.

Not everyone you meet is destined to remain in your life.

Some souls arrive for only a brief season. They may cross your path for a single conversation, a few months, or a handful of years. Their purpose is fulfilled, and they continue on their own journey while you continue on yours.

Others remain beside you for an entire lifetime.

Neither is more important than the other.

I have often asked spirit why certain people seem instantly familiar, why we feel we have known them forever despite only just meeting. The answer has always been remarkably consistent.

You remember one another.

Not with the conscious mind, but with the soul.

Sometimes this recognition is experienced as immediate trust, deep comfort, or an unexplainable feeling of coming home. Occasionally it is the opposite, an immediate tension or challenge that eventually becomes one of our greatest teachers. Both, spirit says, can arise from agreements made before this life began.

When we begin to see life through this lens, our relationships take on a different meaning.

Instead of asking, “Why did this happen to me?” we may begin asking, “What is this soul helping me discover about myself?”

Sometimes the answer is love.

Sometimes it is forgiveness.

Sometimes it is learning to walk away.

Sometimes it is discovering that our worth was never dependent upon another person’s ability to recognise it.

Whether you believe this perspective literally or simply hold it as a beautiful possibility, I have found it offers many people comfort, meaning, and a deeper appreciation for every soul they encounter.

Perhaps the greatest lesson spirit has taught me over these past forty years is this.

There are no insignificant meetings.

Every soul who enters your life leaves an imprint upon your own. Some become treasured companions. Some become cherished memories. Some become your greatest teachers.

Each one, in their own way, helps shape the person you came here to become.

~ Shaman Bearclaw

26/07/2026

If you enjoy learning and understanding more about your soul go and follow this page of mine for more

Sᴏᴜʟ Cᴏɴᴛʀᴀᴄᴛs, Fᴀᴛᴇ ᴀɴᴅ Fʀᴇᴇ Wɪʟʟ
Wʜʏ Yᴏᴜʀ Lɪꜰᴇ ⵊs Nᴏᴛ Aʟʀᴇᴀᴅʏ Wʀɪᴛᴛᴇɴ

One of the questions I have asked spirit more than almost any other over the past forty years is this. “If we choose our lives before we are born, does that mean everything is already decided?” The answer has always been the same. No.

According to the understanding spirit has shared with me, we do not come into this life with every conversation, relationship, success, failure, or heartbreak already fixed. Instead, we incarnate with intentions. We choose certain lessons, themes, and opportunities for growth, but how we meet those opportunities remains our choice.

Think of it like setting out on a journey. Before you leave, you may decide you want to climb a mountain, cross a river, and visit an ancient forest. Those destinations represent your soul’s intentions. How you reach them, how long you stay, who walks beside you, and whether you take the easy path or the difficult one are shaped by your free will and the free will of everyone else.

Spirit has shown me that this is how soul contracts work. A soul contract is not a prison. It is an agreement.

Before incarnation, souls within the same soul group may agree to create opportunities for one another’s evolution. One soul may agree to become a loving parent. Another may become a lifelong friend. Another may play the role of someone who challenges you so deeply that you are forced to discover your own strength.

None of these agreements remove your freedom to choose how you respond. You can meet betrayal with bitterness or with wisdom. You can meet loss by closing your heart or by allowing it to become more compassionate. You can remain trapped in old wounds or choose to heal them. The lesson may present itself many times, but your response is always your own.

This is where fate and free will meet. Spirit describes fate as the crossroads. Free will determines which road you take.

There are moments in life that seem almost impossible to explain. The unexpected meeting that changes everything. The opportunity that arrives at precisely the right moment. The stranger who says exactly what your heart needed to hear. These moments often feel guided because, according to spirit, they are opportunities your soul intended to encounter. Whether you recognise them, embrace them, or walk away from them is entirely up to you. That is free will.

People often ask me whether we can avoid our soul lessons. Spirit smiles when I ask this. Their answer is beautifully simple. “Of course you can.”

Nothing forces us to grow. We can ignore the quiet whisper of intuition. We can repeat the same patterns. We can stay in relationships that no longer honour us. We can refuse to forgive, refuse to trust, refuse to love again.

The soul is patient. If a lesson is not learned today, another opportunity will eventually appear wearing different clothes. The people may change. The circumstances may change. But the invitation remains the same until we are ready.

This is why so many people find themselves asking, “Why does this keep happening to me?” Perhaps life is not punishing you. Perhaps your soul is gently placing another doorway before you, waiting for the moment you are ready to walk through it.

To me, this understanding is one of the most empowering teachings spirit has ever shared. It reminds us that we are never powerless. We may not choose every circumstance that enters our lives, but we always have a choice about who we become because of it.

Our destiny is not a script. It is a conversation between the intentions of the soul and the choices of the human heart.

Perhaps that is why spirit never tells me that our future is fixed. Instead, they show me possibilities. The future is always moving because we are always choosing. And every choice becomes another brushstroke in the masterpiece our soul came here to create.

~ Shaman Bearclaw

26/07/2026

Sᴏᴜʟ Cᴏɴᴛʀᴀᴄᴛs, Fᴀᴛᴇ ᴀɴᴅ Fʀᴇᴇ Wɪʟʟ
Wʜʏ Yᴏᴜʀ Lɪꜰᴇ ⵊs Nᴏᴛ Aʟʀᴇᴀᴅʏ Wʀɪᴛᴛᴇɴ

One of the questions I have asked spirit more than almost any other over the past forty years is this. “If we choose our lives before we are born, does that mean everything is already decided?” The answer has always been the same. No.

According to the understanding spirit has shared with me, we do not come into this life with every conversation, relationship, success, failure, or heartbreak already fixed. Instead, we incarnate with intentions. We choose certain lessons, themes, and opportunities for growth, but how we meet those opportunities remains our choice.

Think of it like setting out on a journey. Before you leave, you may decide you want to climb a mountain, cross a river, and visit an ancient forest. Those destinations represent your soul’s intentions. How you reach them, how long you stay, who walks beside you, and whether you take the easy path or the difficult one are shaped by your free will and the free will of everyone else.

Spirit has shown me that this is how soul contracts work. A soul contract is not a prison. It is an agreement.

Before incarnation, souls within the same soul group may agree to create opportunities for one another’s evolution. One soul may agree to become a loving parent. Another may become a lifelong friend. Another may play the role of someone who challenges you so deeply that you are forced to discover your own strength.

None of these agreements remove your freedom to choose how you respond. You can meet betrayal with bitterness or with wisdom. You can meet loss by closing your heart or by allowing it to become more compassionate. You can remain trapped in old wounds or choose to heal them. The lesson may present itself many times, but your response is always your own.

This is where fate and free will meet. Spirit describes fate as the crossroads. Free will determines which road you take.

There are moments in life that seem almost impossible to explain. The unexpected meeting that changes everything. The opportunity that arrives at precisely the right moment. The stranger who says exactly what your heart needed to hear. These moments often feel guided because, according to spirit, they are opportunities your soul intended to encounter. Whether you recognise them, embrace them, or walk away from them is entirely up to you. That is free will.

People often ask me whether we can avoid our soul lessons. Spirit smiles when I ask this. Their answer is beautifully simple. “Of course you can.”

Nothing forces us to grow. We can ignore the quiet whisper of intuition. We can repeat the same patterns. We can stay in relationships that no longer honour us. We can refuse to forgive, refuse to trust, refuse to love again.

The soul is patient. If a lesson is not learned today, another opportunity will eventually appear wearing different clothes. The people may change. The circumstances may change. But the invitation remains the same until we are ready.

This is why so many people find themselves asking, “Why does this keep happening to me?” Perhaps life is not punishing you. Perhaps your soul is gently placing another doorway before you, waiting for the moment you are ready to walk through it.

To me, this understanding is one of the most empowering teachings spirit has ever shared. It reminds us that we are never powerless. We may not choose every circumstance that enters our lives, but we always have a choice about who we become because of it.

Our destiny is not a script. It is a conversation between the intentions of the soul and the choices of the human heart.

Perhaps that is why spirit never tells me that our future is fixed. Instead, they show me possibilities. The future is always moving because we are always choosing. And every choice becomes another brushstroke in the masterpiece our soul came here to create.

~ Shaman Bearclaw

06/07/2026

Mother Mugwort

06/06/2026

🌿 SPIRIT MESSAGE
SATURDAY 6TH JUNE 2026 🌿
Today carries the energy of sacred recalibration and spiritual sovereignty. The Moon is moving through the Waning Gibbous phase in the days following the Full Moon, encouraging wisdom, integration, and conscious release. This is a phase of gathering the medicine from recent experiences and deciding what is truly worth carrying forward. Spirit is asking you to become the guardian of your own energy rather than the rescuer of everyone else’s.
The planetary atmosphere today is influenced by grounding Earth energies and reflective lunar currents that support emotional clarity and practical spiritual growth. There is a strong invitation to simplify. Situations that have felt complicated may reveal surprisingly simple truths. What your spirit needs may not be more information. It may simply be more trust in what you already know. The energy today supports boundaries, self respect, and returning to your own centre after periods of emotional overextension.
The Schumann Resonance is showing moderate activity with rolling waves and occasional spikes moving through the collective field. Some elevated amplitudes may be experienced throughout the day, contributing to vivid dreams, emotional sensitivity, heightened intuition, nervous system fatigue, moments of deep reflection, and stronger awareness of energetic boundaries. Spiritually this energy supports recalibration, grounding, and reconnecting with your authentic rhythm rather than the expectations of others.
Today is about remembering that your spirit has its own pace. Nature does not rush. The Moon does not rush. The seasons do not rush. Yet everything unfolds exactly as it should. Spirit is asking you to stop measuring your progress against others and instead honour the unique timing of your own journey. Your path was never meant to look like anyone else’s. Your medicine lies in authenticity, not comparison.

✨ AFFIRMATION ✨
I honour my own sacred timing, I trust the wisdom of my spirit, and I move forward with clarity, confidence, and deep self respect.

🌍 SCHUMANN RESONANCE
UPDATE AND UNDERSTANDING 🌍
The Schumann Resonance is the Earth’s natural electromagnetic resonance, generally measured at approximately 7.83 Hz. It is generated between the Earth’s surface and the ionosphere, creating a standing electromagnetic field around the planet. The base frequency remains stable while amplitude levels reflect energetic activity moving through the field.
Today’s readings show moderate activity with rolling energetic waves and occasional spikes. From a physical perspective this may contribute to emotional sensitivity, vivid dreams, disrupted sleep, nervous system fatigue, reflective moods, or periods of mental stillness followed by sudden clarity. Spiritually this energy often corresponds with energetic recalibration, emotional integration, heightened intuition, stronger boundaries, and deeper trust in personal truth.
This is an energy of grounding and integration. The medicine today comes not from seeking more but from recognising what is already present.

🔥 SHAMANIC RITUAL
THE CIRCLE OF SOVEREIGNTY 🔥
A completely unique traditional inspired ritual for reclaiming personal power, strengthening boundaries, and honouring your authentic path.
You will need seven small stones gathered respectfully from nature.

1. Sit comfortably outdoors or near an open window and place the seven stones in front of you.

2. Take seven slow deep breaths and allow your awareness to settle into the present moment.

3. Create a small circle on the ground using the seven stones.

4. Sit in front of the circle and reflect on areas of your life where your energy feels scattered or overextended.

5. Ask quietly
Where am I giving away power that belongs to me.

6. Place both hands over your heart and allow any thoughts, feelings, or images to arise naturally.

7. Choose one stone and place it in the centre of the circle.

8. Say aloud
I call my energy home to myself.

9. Sit quietly for several minutes imagining your energy returning from all directions and settling peacefully within you.

10. Leave the circle in place until sunset if possible, then return the stones to the earth with gratitude.

📖 JOURNAL PROMPT 📖
Where in my life have I been seeking approval, validation, or permission from others, and what would change if I fully trusted my own wisdom instead?