The Shamans Cave

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Compassion vs Forgiveness: Shamans Cave Mar 05, 2025

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In this extremely relevant show to the times we are living in, Renee and Sandra speak about an article in the New York Times where a psychologist talked about letting go of the need to forgive people who abused you but instead have compassion for what made them behave in such a destructive way.
It is an interesting concept to think about today where people try to force forgiveness. Forgiveness can’t be forced as it comes only at the right time when we have come to a new place in our life.
Join Renee and Sandra as they explore the power of compassion in this show filled with a lot of old time wisdom.

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Bringing the Spiritual Community Together: Shamans Cave Feb 19, 2025

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Sandra went to see the new Dylan movie which reminded her how tight the community was in the 1960s, and how they stood together during challenging times and did not sit down but connected and demonstrated.
Today it seems like the spiritual community is more disconnected from each other and still have some work to do to transcend the ego and shadow states that want us to divide and use blaming behavior.
Join Sandra and Renee for this important show on the need for the spiritual community to come together and stand together in order to help to make lasting changes for one’s personal life and community.

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A Pilgrims Guide to Walking Wisdom 11:11 Insights: Shamans Cave Feb 05, 2025

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Sandra started this show by leading an invocation to congratulate Renee on the release of her new book A Pilgrim’s Guide to Walking Wisdom 11:11 Insights.
To write a book is such a creative act that comes from one soul. And Renee brought us a beautiful book with insights and tools to help us walk forward during a time of chaos.
Join Renee and Sandra as they not only talk about Renee’s book but learning about the power of community and walking each other home.

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Graceful Aging: Shamans Cave Jan 22, 2025

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At at time on the planet when looking youthful and finding ways to live longer dominate our news and culture an entire part of our population is not being honored for the life that have led and what they contributed over their lifetime. We tend to compare how we are aging to what we see in the news and to others who we know.
The truth is we all have our natural cycle of life and aging is a part of life as we are Nature and everything in Nature grows old and dies. How do we follow our own internal cycle of aging and find ways to make this time of life meaningful and joyful instead of something to deny?
Join Sandra Ingerman and Renee Baribeau as they address this powerful topic that so many people are focusing on in their own cycles of life right now.

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The Feminine Way of Storytelling: Shamans Cave Jan 08, 2025

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Our modern Western culture tends to focus on learning through lectures and gathering more material. This works to a point, but how deep does this information go when we are only engaging our conscious mind. During this show Renee and Sandra introduce us to the power of old-time story telling that is circular rather than linear and is a feminine way of teaching.
Join Renee Baribeau and Sandra Ingerman as they dive into the topic of circular story telling as a way to bring back the old ways of feminine teaching through metaphors that go deep into your unconscious creating real lasting change.

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Oracle Work During the Solstice and Times of Change: Shamans Cave Dec 11, 2024

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Renee and Sandra had a wonderful call chatting with each other about many different topics from copyrighting your writing to how every change in life is a death and how we can find a roadmap for walking our path following the river of life by doing oracle work.
This show is filled with so much wonderful conversation that contains so much wisdom as we move into the time of winter and the return of the sun. The dark and light always must be balanced for life on Earth.
Join Renee and Sandra and you feel like you are sitting with them drinking a cup of tea!

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Integrating Shamanic Healing into Psychotherapy: Shamans Cave Nov 27, 2024

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One of our listeners asked Renee and Sandra that covers the intersectionality between mental health professionals and shamanism. This is a really deep topic and Rene and Sandra covered key details that therapists working with shamanic healing need to know. But how wonderful it is to know that therapists have been integrating shamanic healing into their therapeutic practices for decades.
Join Sandra and Renee as they begin a discussion that will lead you to an new understanding and steps to integrate the work into a private practice, the ethics, telling healing stories and so much more.

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Keeping the Light of Hope: Shamans Cave Nov 13, 2024

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In America we just had an incredibly polarized election. It is interesting to examine the polarization when we all share one Earth. Renee shares a very wise perspective about this while Sandra talks about the importance to grieve if you feel a death occurred in your life with this election.
Join Renee and Sandra for this powerful audio show where you will learn different perspectives about the election and the state of the world while also being encouraged to grief for what you feel has been lost. Once we grieve we can see new opportunities that are being presented to us.

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Meeting People for Who They Are: Shamans Cave Oct 30, 2024

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Renee Baribeau had a profound experience that inspired this episode. We encounter countless people each day, moving through life at such a rapid pace that it becomes difficult to pause and engage in true heart-to-heart exchanges. Too often, we place labels on others—calling them ignorant, lazy, or mentally ill—without ever stopping to connect with them on a human level. But when we take the time to engage authentically, we tap into a deep well of truth, empathy, and shared humanity. Viewing others as archetypes or one-dimensional characters distances us, reducing them to mere figures in a virtual game, void of connection. In this episode, we explore what it means to truly see and honor the people we cross paths with, from a place of compassion and openness.

Life is about connection. We came here to connect with people and all of nature. So if connection is what we truly crave it is time to start treating people as individuals who we can connect with in beautiful ways to open to the vastness of unique beings who all came to share something quite unique when they chose to be incarnated into this lifetime. Meeting people outside of the labels we give them creates a more enriching life for all of us.

Join Renee and Sandra Ingerman as they reflect on this powerful topic!

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Finding Safety Within: Shamans Cave Oct 16, 2024

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With a world filled with trauma it is time to turn our attention into cultivating our Inner World. This is not an action to take to escape life. It is to build up a beautiful inner landscape where we can allow our inner awareness to help cope with stress and trauma. There is so much noise and chatter that people are no longer listening to their hearts and body which hold wisdom of how to navigate challenges with clarity and peace allowing us to be resilient. Our Inner World is a place to find strength and healing. Have you noticed how many people are getting ill from reaching outside instead of within for resilience and strength? This is a time to listen to the wisdom of your body and from here you will feel safe no matter what is happening around you. For the only true reality is your life in your Inner World. So that is the place of safety for you!
This is a topic that spoke deeply to both Renee and Sandra and it is a wonderful to start season 7 of The Shamans Cave!

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