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Jul 30

UPDATED: Please learn the origin of #challengeacce

UPDATED: Please learn the origin of #challengeaccepted in my story. If you would like to participate, please do so and share the post from @beelzeboobz I shared in your story too. #standwithwomenofturkey #enddomesticviolence
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Jul 3

We ate Portobellos! @bearfuht did a supply run to

We ate Portobellos!

@bearfuht did a supply run to Managua and brought back hongos (mushrooms). They are a rarity here.

I sautéed them and added a yummy #chimichurri made from finely chopped parsley, rosemary and oregano from the garden. The only thing the zompopos leave me are herbs. Those giant leaf-cutter ants eat everything.

The mushrooms brought back memories of the local Sub Shop on Freeport in Sac, where I played video games in their arcade with my brother Sidd for hours upon days.

I was the top score many times for #Centipede and #Galaga. However being a young chica really rubbed the older dudes the wrong way. After my high scores I would usually find my competitors unplugging the games to erase my score. Like that changed it for them. Well, I guess that’s why I had to go get some plaques with my name put on public buildings. 😂

At the Sub Shop I would order the sautéed mushrooms for snack. I grew up a vegetarian at my mom’s house.

Mushrooms 🍄 are also siblings, the fruit of the mycelium. I miss my sibs. I guess this Venus transit in Gemini around my Saturn in the third house has brought some old memories to the surface.

We get assigned roles based on our linage, eldest, youngest, middle child. My role was complicated. I was the first child, female, in a Latinx family, big familial responsibility. Carrier of traditions, medicine, food.

It also meant being forced to provide childcare for my siblings, cleaning house and my dad’s office without pay.

The perks were temporary leadership powers.

But I was also an outsider in my homes because all my siblings were from second marriages. I was in constant transition, while they all stayed put. It made me a terrible sibling, and also pretty bad at friendship.

I’m much better with plants and animals, and mentoring.

Did your siblings and position shape your #leadership style? Is it irrelevant because you’re an only child? Share your reflections in the comments. I’m also curious if you like #mushrooms. My brother Sidd didn’t, so I didn’t have to share. 😋

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Jul 1

Are you keeping your appointments with the Eternal

Are you keeping your appointments with the Eternal? (h/t @michaelbbeckwith )
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You’re needed now more than ever. These are times when JEDIs rise. Justice, Ecology, Diversity, Interconnection — these are JEDI values we must cultivate to thrive in this time.
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I’m grateful to be alive in this time.
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#jeditraining #jedibusiness #emergentstrategy #patternliteracy #flowstate

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Jun 4

If you’re looking to me for guidance I suggest y

If you’re looking to me for guidance I suggest you look elsewhere. Do your internal work to #decolonize. I’m signal boosting important work in my stories and listening and reading (@resmaamenakem My Grandmother’s Hands). Getting the downloads and giving resources and insights where I can.
Meanwhile where I am in Central America, our brown and Afro-Caribbean, indigenous siblings are dying at unspeakable rates from Covid and not being counted. I’m getting reusable masks made for the neighborhood. We’ve got to stop the spread so these folx can live to see 2021 and beyond.

Midwifery is really close to my heart. Roots in Minneapolis needs help. Venmo or PayPal their fiscal sponsor, @ProjectMotherPath, with a note it’s for Roots. Will post deets in comments. Click their bio link for PayPal or Venmo @projectmotherpath #blackmothersmatter
Photo repost from @resmaamenakem

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Apr 30

Today is 13 Kej in the Kiche Mayan Calendar. It’

Today is 13 Kej in the Kiche Mayan Calendar. It’s also a Kej year.
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Kej is connected to the four directions. It is a day of the shamans and priestesses. And it is a 13 day, so the veil between worlds is thin. Today is the day to seek insights from the Spirit world. Powerful indeed.
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As the nawal of the majestic stag and cacao medicine, today is a day for making an offering with cacao, standing in your center and surveying your dominion. Seek guidance of the four directions and your ancestors and you will receive insights.
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A delicious offering recipe, Cacao Pudding
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In a mixing bowl blend with a hand blender:
2 large avocados, pit and seed removed
1/2 cup cacao powder (sugar free, not cocoa powder but will suffice if that’s all you have)
stevia to taste
1 drop copaiba oil (contains BCP cannabinoids, not psychoactive, neuro-protective, imparts wisdom, calms the nervous system)
1 drop cardamom oil (not for pregnant or nursing moms, vasodilator, warming)
1 drop cinnamon bark oil (vasodilator, enhances cacao)
1/4 teaspoon salt to taste

Chill for 1 hour ⏳

Set an offering at your altar. Light a candle. Say a prayer and ask for blessing to work with Cacao medicine. Spend time in meditation. For more exploration, download my cacao ceremonial guide (link in bio)🕯
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Photos via @unsplash pudding by Klara Avsenik, altar by Luz Mendoza, cacao pod by Ly Le Minh
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#cacaoceremony #kej #mayancalendar #deer #offering #chocolatepudding #recipeoftheday

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Mar 16

Here’s a few things I’m grateful for.
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• My health
• My family (+ Pets)
• My friends
• Moon in Capricorn
• Fresh air to breathe
• Clean(ish) water
• Enough healthy food
• Mi Casa
• Safety/security
• Access to internet
• Freedom of speech (when I’m in the US)
• Holidays
• Technology
• My cell phone
• My computer
• Electricity
• Eyesight
• Hearing
• Nurses
• Music and Dancing
• Movies
• Books
• Free time
• Freedom of choice (when I’m in the US)
• Love

Leave me a comment with some of yours… xoxo
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#youarelight #gratefulaf #gratitudepractice #wildfit #wildfitwithixchel #getwildfit

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Mar 15

Wear That Beautiful Smile! 😁 It may seem overra

Wear That Beautiful Smile! 😁
It may seem overrated but smiling can make the difference between a whole day of being happy or feeling really heavy and deep inside.
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Try to smile and you’ll notice a lot of difference. Smiling too is viral (minus all the pain and agony though) as it is contagious to almost everyone around you and almost nobody is immune to it. Try it out!
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If you really want to improve your overall happiness and boost your immune system, focus each day on connecting with your support system and spreading positive emotions into the world.
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When you give love, you are more likely to get love. And when you share your positive feelings, you help others to share theirs, too.
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Do one thing every day that shows someone in your life that you love, value, or appreciate them.
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Here are just a few habits that just take a few minutes: ✅ Call someone you love to say hello and see how they are
✅ Hug someone
✅ Hold hands with someone
✅ Give someone a smile or a pat on the back
✅ Tell others how proud you are of someone you love
✅ Do a favor for a friend or loved one
✅ Show a complete stranger kindness and support
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Have fun, be happy and don’t forget that smile! Help a friend smile by tagging them in the comments, and post a photo of your silly smile.
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#wildfit #getwildfit #wildfitwithixchel #weareinthistogether #smilechallenge #sillyface

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Mar 11

Repost @theevapeterson ・・・ f e e l i n g s .

Repost @theevapeterson
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#allthefeels #theevapeterson #handholdingheart #heartart #selflove

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Mar 4

I used to think I was the strangest person in the

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.
— Frida Kahlo
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#fridakahlo #frida #fridakahloquotes #fridakahloart #ilovefrida

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Mar 2

Be a rebel... #decolonizeyourmind #selfcarerevolut

Be a rebel...
#decolonizeyourmind #selfcarerevolution
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Mar 2

Me, 1990, natural hair color, with a perm curl tha

Me, 1990, natural hair color, with a perm curl that felt like a lion’s mane. Going through a divorce, I was just 18. Living in rural Sonoma County, dairy cow country, I had just read Diet for a New America by my friend Ocean’s dad, John Robbins.
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Growing up vegetarian, the book pushed me to go further, I went vegan. Little did I know then that the milk protein, casein was also contributing to my physical challenges.
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By the time I took this photo I was only 90 lbs (significantly underweight). I was still breastfeeding my second baby in a year, but my thyroid was on tilt from a few years of extreme stress. I was going hard for wheat, sadly, I would be undiagnosed celiac for another twenty years.
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I look back at old photos and marvel at what this body has endured. I am so grateful for the resilience of my ancestors. It literally takes my breath away what they have survived for me to be here.
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A decade later I was still struggling with my weight. But by then I nearly doubled in size to 170lbs. I was so desperate I allowed my endocrinologist to convince me to radiate my thyroid. I had not yet learned to trust my intuition around eating. Still eating foods that were toxic for me because I was trying to fit into an ethical framework around eating.
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Three years ago I learned to let go of the judgement of what I put in my mouth — when I based it on how my body felt after I ate.
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No more yo-yo. No more starving. No more obsessing with a scale. My ancestors are guiding me and my intuition. I’m right where I need to be.
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How do you feel about your meals? Are they feeding your emotions, but leaving you hungry, or crappy?
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Do you know what foods your ancestors ate traditionally, in seasons?
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#youarelight #peakstate #foodfreedom #wildfitwithixchel #wildfitcoach #wildfit #getwildfit #vegan #dietforanewamerica #ancestraldiet

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Feb 14

Even when you feel like just a sliver of yourself.

Even when you feel like just a sliver of yourself...
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#compassionfatigue #flowstate #flowcoaching #divinelight #kundaliniyoga #wildfit #wildfitwithixchel #alkagizer

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Feb 6

Mmmm... this one breathes into me. 💫 . I love h

Mmmm... this one breathes into me. 💫
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I love her work!
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Repost @lindstrom.emma
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Akaleyi III. Mixed media on canvas. 120x100 cm. #cosmic #divinefeminine #divinecosmos #divinelight #meditationspace

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Jan 23

Do you ever feel like someone wrote a book just fo

Do you ever feel like someone wrote a book just for you? That’s what reading (or listening on @audible) Talking to Strangers felt like for me.
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I was looking for a book to help me grow a bit around how I communicate with others. Living in Nicaragua, a country in active decolonization where neighbors are, at times, at war with each other, I am looking for ways I can bridge that gap.
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When I saw this book on Audible, and having loved all of Malcolm Gladwell’s work (years ago, I even went to a tech conference because he was the keynote speaker and shared a story about David and Goliath), I just had to listen.
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When I saw it had a @janellemonae track I was in.
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Yikes! I didn’t know what rabbit hole I had entered... Every chapter challenged assumptions I had and touched old wounds, but as if to apply a healing salve to lift the scars or turn them into talismans.
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Deep insight can happen when are willing to face our boogie men.
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Having read Gladwell’s other works, I know he always leads me out of the dark mind boggles of disparate data into the illumination of some greater understanding of ourselves, an elevated soul.
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It felt like I encountered a well-read tour guide walking through my life, like some stone acropolis, pointing out how this structure was shaped by hands and place, a unique moment in time in a continuous global evolution.
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I am so grateful to be alive in this time —to have people with such fortitude, wisdom and intellect to stick to their life’s work to weave a heart-opening masterpiece with skill and beauty.
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Talking To Strangers has ended how I take some interactions at face value. Check it out...
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#talkingtostrangers #malcolmgladwell #goldengatebridge #sayhername #sayhernamesandrabland #sandrabland #sylviaplath #nicalife #suicideawarness

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Jan 23

She calls to me in my dreams... . . Repost @youngm

She calls to me in my dreams...
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Repost @youngmer
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HB Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón #weloveyoustill #fridakahlo #meryoung #oaxaca #oaxacamexico

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Jan 14

It’s difficult to imagine the person we will be

It’s difficult to imagine the person we will be in 10 years.
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I didn’t recognize me of 2020 in 2010, much less 2000. But I hold the intention that my best years are still to come. That masterpiece isn’t going to write itself.
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What one thing can you do today to create the next big thing that desires to be done?
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I’m here to cheer you on... 🔥🙌🏼🔥
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#loveletterstostrangers #letterstoanoldfriend #alist #over40 #okboomer #xgen

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Jan 12

***Cacao Update: 4 left!*** Happy Sunday, Loves! A

***Cacao Update: 4 left!***
Happy Sunday, Loves! As I connect with regional cacao makers, I learned there are now four (3 purchased) - 1lb blocks available this week from our lovely Matagalpa collective. Follow the link in bio to reserve one before they are gone... (10% off...) We are working towards more offerings of this potent ceremonial-grade cacao.

As you may know, I've been working with Cacao medicine while living in jungle. And I am only able to bring a small batch of ceremonial-grade cacao with me to the US when I visit. This lovely small batch of handmade ceremonial-grade cacao is from the highland jungles of Matagalpa, Nicaragua where I live.

Having worked with this medicine for a bit now, I'm smitten with what's grown here. The ferment is perfect. Pure paste, with cacao butter, not bitter. #veganchocolate

This medicinal cacao is grown in small family collectives with regenerative agroforestry practices.

Thank you for supporting this regenerative agroforestry in Nicaragua. Your support is revolutionary (literally, the 2018 uprising here started because these life-sustaining forests were left to burn...). I'm exploring a more consistent way to export, but at the moment, shipping from Nicaragua is very expensive. So it's better to bring it in small batches when we visit.

After working with this medicine, I recently created a beautiful guide on holding a cacao ceremony (personal meditation or group). This sugar-free, heavy with good brain fats and heart-opening medicine can shift your relationship with chocolate to be healing, while decolonizing your body.

I've also been preparing a private online group on Mighty Network that will open to folx that purchase the guide.

You can find the Guide book and — if it's still available — 100% Ceremonial-Grade Cacao in 1 pound offerings in my bio link.

Walk in beauty. Live your magic. Go wild.
xo Ixchel
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#cacao #cacaoceremony #cacaocollective #cacaomedicine #cacaonicaragua #decolonizechocolate #chocolateaddiction #foodasmedicine

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Jan 10

Happy 🪐🌞🌙🌕✨💫✨Eclipse. So gratef

Happy 🪐🌞🌙🌕✨💫✨Eclipse. So grateful to be alive in this time. Enjoy the ride... 😘 .
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Jan 8

What does your heart want? ✨🔥✨ The world is

What does your heart want?
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The world is tilting in contraction. Will you contract in this time? Will you revert to your place of comfort, the small-self addicted to cycles of fear?
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Or will you open your heart and let Love in as your Guide during this tumultuous time?
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When my heart cuts off and my mind begins to slip into rinse and repeat of old, fear-based patterns, patterns of resistance, I turn to gentle Cacao medicine for healing.
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From a scientific and neuroscience perspective, Cacao is a vasodilator, containing theobromine and good brain supporting fats to gently open your heart and shift your perspective.
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Decolonize chocolate.
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What is Ceremonial-grade Cacao? It’s hand-crafted, fermented 100% chocolate, nothing added or taken away. Naturally sugar-free, with all the essential medicinal ingredients grown in harmony. Crafted for looking within.
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I’ve created a simple, yet powerful guide to working with Cacao medicine in meditation and in group ceremony. It also includes how and where to source indigenous-grown, regenerative ceremonial-grade Cacao. You can learn more at ixchel.love/cacao
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Stay open and Love, fiercely. 💗
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#cacao #cacaoceremony #theobroma #indigenas #foodasmedicine #getwildfit #cacaomedicine #indigenouswomen #theobromine #neuroscience #stealingfire #plantmedicine #flowstate #heartopening

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Jan 6

I see you. You are brave. ✨💫✨ . . . #lanara

I see you. You are brave.
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#lanarafaela
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#fuckology #fuckologyofficial #fuckologyquotes #thoughtshake

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