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How a Shamanic Medicine Bundle Opens the Doors to Manifesting Our Mission in Life
“ Beloved Condor Spirit and Spirit of Macchu Pichu, I am feeling stuck around manifesting the next step in my mission and purpose in life....
Rachel Mann PhD
Mar 14, 20234 min read
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Why the Mystical is Essential to Trauma Healing
In my early 20s, I got myself into therapy. Talk therapy, that is. I had a lot to say and process. It was extremely helpful to have a...
Rachel Mann PhD
Jan 23, 20235 min read
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May We Defeat the Kremlin in Humanity’s Mind
When Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, in his powerful and inspiring speech to the United States joint chambers of Congress on...
Rachel Mann PhD
Jan 11, 20236 min read
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A Solstice Ceremony to Catalyze a New Vision for Your Life
All around the world for millennia, human beings have understood the power of the Solstices to magnetize highest visions and elevate...
Rachel Mann PhD
Dec 21, 20224 min read
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What Do I Do with All This: Two More Shootings, Too Much War
I am going to be real here. I am grieving, depressed, frustrated, overwhelmed, and feel helpless. I have brain fog and alternate from...
Rachel Mann PhD
Nov 22, 20225 min read
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Follow the Path I Took to Heal from Complex PTSD
I have been asked many times how I healed from the trauma I experienced? How can I be so (mostly) confident and live with a measure of...
Rachel Mann PhD
Nov 4, 20229 min read
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5 Guiding Principles Out of Seeing Yourself through a Glass Darkly
(This blog is part of an ongoing series in which I share intimate details about my life in order to inspire and educate my readers about...
Rachel Mann PhD
Sep 21, 20226 min read
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The Struggle and Potential of the Archetypal Soul Gift of the Empathic Child
So many of us came into this world with a natural empathy—defined as a capacity to feel and experience within oneself other’s feelings,...
Rachel Mann PhD
Sep 12, 20227 min read
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Destiny Lines & Our Original Wound
(This blog is part of an ongoing series in which I share intimate details about my life in order to inspire and educate my readers about...
Rachel Mann PhD
Aug 17, 20228 min read
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The Social Scientist Side of Sacred Activism for Peacemaking
In the lineup of identifiers under my name…. sacred activist | social scientist | healer | spiritual mentor …..you may wonder what the...
Rachel Mann PhD
Aug 11, 20225 min read
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Love Is My Way Through the Darkness
“Your relentless pursuit of healing shows how much you love yourself.” So said a Dona, a healer I worked with for several years in my...
Rachel Mann PhD
Aug 4, 20224 min read
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My Personal Journey from Grief to Love
Before loss came into my life, I was a tiny, loving, angelic little girl with no cares to furrow my brow. No different than any other...
Rachel Mann PhD
Jul 28, 20227 min read
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Shake Your Fist at the Heavens in the Midst of Dark Times and then Make a Heart at Your Heart
Yep, this planet is can be a hard, hard place to live. Sometimes when I am feeling weighed down by personal challenges and/or by the many...
Rachel Mann PhD
Jul 18, 20224 min read
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Choice and Abortion through the Lens of the Dance of the Divine Feminine and Masculine
I want to enter into the conversation about the overturning of Roe vs. Wade with sensitivity to both “sides” and also share my grief....
Rachel Mann PhD
Jul 2, 202211 min read
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In the Aftermath of Buffalo and Uvalde, Isn’t It Time that We Take Action Both Sacred & Concrete?
In the past 2 months: 10 people killed, 3 wounded at a Buffalo, NY grocery store. Two teachers and 19 children killed and 17 injured at...
Rachel Mann PhD
Jun 24, 20226 min read
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A Shamanic Perspective on the Reverberations of War
War is a special kind of hell. This is what a friend and colleague and survivor of the War in Lebanon said to me recently as we spoke...
Rachel Mann PhD
Mar 21, 20225 min read
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Ukraine: Everything Has Come Full Circle
With the invasion of Ukraine in the past week, everything has come full circle for me as I reach back to the poetry of Russian writers,...
Rachel Mann PhD
Mar 1, 20225 min read
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Genocide and Hate are a Spiritual Issue
It has happened again. Several days ago, Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists held two rallies in Orlando, Florida where they shouted...
Rachel Mann PhD
Feb 1, 20225 min read
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Discovering Native American Peacemakers
In 1993, I sat in on a meditation cushion in a musty domed tent in the Green Mountains of Vermont. There on a raised dais in front of us...
Rachel Mann PhD
Jan 20, 20224 min read
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Healing is an Act of Love for 2022 and Beyond
Many years ago when I was in deep the journey to heal my wounds and my life, as I faced these shadows within me, I found it very hard to...
Rachel Mann PhD
Jan 1, 20223 min read
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