009 Yarning circles and ancestors with Emma Steward - a podcast by Clare Foale

I'm excited to present this interview with Emma Stewart.

This interview is the catalyst for why this Salty Hair Self Care podcast now exists. Due to technical difficulties, a video component to this interview refused to record, and I was left with the audio only.

This was the nudge I needed to realise these big, beautiful conversations which I had been sharing only on Facebook were, in fact, too important not to be shared as a podcast.

Emma is a proud Aboriginal woman and the founder of Jirribitti Healing. Jirribitti means 'snake'. Emma chose this name to pay respect to traditional rainbow serpent creation stories. It also represents evolving, in the way that a snake evolves and sheds its skin.

Through Jirribitti Healing, Emma works with agencies to build strong, sustainable relationships with Aboriginal communities and creates amazing digital toolkits around self preservation and empowerment and self care practices. This includes facilitating yarning circles.

"People don't know how to treat you until you tell them. People will only treat you the way that you allow them to treat you."


What we talked about:

• The importance of giving yourself love and not neglecting yourself while giving all to others
• Give to yourself first and foremost so that you don't run on an empty cup
• Speaking to yourself kindly
• Journaling for self awareness and healing
• Daily affirmations
• Aboriginals live in the now
• Small changes leading to major healing
• The importance of boundaries
• Not giving to the point of exhaustion and resentment
• Learning to say 'no', with love
• Yarning circles - a tradition involving everyone sitting in a circle for a discussion with a desired outcome
• Yarning circles bring back that traditional concept of sitting, gathering, listening, learning
• Yarning is always done outside for connection to land
• Awareness of and connection to ancestors
• Creativity as a way of switching off over thinking, of connecting to what makes the spirit happy

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Further episodes of Salty Hair Self Care Conversations

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