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together, they explore the sacred wisdom of body and spirit, the tensions between linear and spiral time, and the beauty of spiritual surrender. they also touch on reproductive justice and the importance of reclaiming birth spaces rooted in relationship, land, and ceremony.

Dr. Karlee Fellner sits with Dr. Rebekah Dunlap to explore pregnancy, birth, and the sacred intelligence of babies before they arrive. They share stories of waiting, ancestral messages, and the ways babies carry teachings from the spirit world.

Wiisug Richard Wright joins Dr. Fellner again to talk about what it means to have gifts to perceive multiple realities — the clinical language of psychosis and iyiniwak understandings of spiritual gifts, responsibility, and personal power, Through the teachings of kihtehayak

Peter reflects on the transformative nature of ceremony, the courage it takes to face ourselves, and the ways colonial lies tried to convince him — and all of us — that we are unworthy. Through his story, we see healing as a spiral, a return to the original self.

Peter Nippi shares parts of his story, like so many survivors of Indian residential schools were taught to hide. he takes us back to the quiet beginnings of shame, the ways trauma quietly shapes our lives, and the coping mechanisms we build to survive attempted genocide.

Dr. Fellner sits with Cathy Kostincer, a Cree medium and ᒪᐢᑭᐦᑭᕀ maskihkiy team member, to explore the landscapes of grief, spirit, and the circle of life. Cathy shares teachings and insights that emerged through her journey with cancer.

Lisa L’Hirondelle and Dr. Karlee Fellner explore how Indigenous approaches to therapy and land-based healing can help us release pain and trauma we’ve picked up through the generations.

Dr. Fellner draws on iyiniwak teachings, the wisdom of teachers like Gary Zukav and Carolyn Myss, and her own journey of surrender, faith, and survivance.

Anishinaabe kihtehayah (Elder) Donna LaChapelle of the White Earth Nation joins Dr. Fellner to share stories of healing through connection with the land and our own innate power to heal ourselves.

Dustin Walter of the Amskapi Piikani Nation joins Dr. Fellner for a powerful conversation on healing through community, ceremony, and Blackfoot ways of life. Dustin shares his journey into balance—guided by community, ceremony, and the teachings of land and spirit.

Mi’kmaw PhD candidate Stephanie Tipple joins Dr. Fellner for a powerful conversation about how each of us exists at the centre of a vast web of relationships, so much so that the “symptoms” we experience may originate from far beyond just ourselves.

kihtehayah (Elder) and author Wiisug Richard Wright joins Dr. Fellner to discuss Indigenous understandings of addiction.

our bodies are constantly communicating with us, whether it's a simple signal like “you need rest” or a deeper, more complex message that shows up as illness. But what do these physical symptoms have to do with psychology?

no-- you aren't! It's the systems and structures in this society that are." continuing from the story of Iskotew and Crow in Episode 1, Dr. Fellner delves deeper into unpacking psycholonization: the ways colonialism is perpetuated through the psy- disciplines.

métis psychologist Dr. Karlee Fellner introduces some of the foundational tenets of Indigenous psychologies, drawing upon the story of iskotew (“fire” in Plains Cree) and Crow.