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What would it mean to realign ourselves with the Earth’s original economy: radical abundance and fearless generosity? And what can the humpback whale and the beaver teach us five-fingereds about how to live in reciprocity with the whole?

Drawing from her deep knowledge of Diné and Lakota traditions, Woman Stands Shining Pat McCabe invites us to connect with our breath as a portal to bring our nervous systems into deeper relationship with the living planet.

“Every other life form on this sacred hoop has been at it longer than we have and has figured out how to live your life in such a way that you’re augmenting and benefiting and blessing everything around you,” Woman Stands Shining says. “I feel like that would be a noble goal for our kind, for our five-fingered ones, for our species.”

Woman Stands Shining also speaks about the braided spiritual lineages that inform her practice and her work to heal the inter-generational and collective trauma inflicted on her parents and grandparents by the residential boarding school system created to sever Indigenous peoples from their cultural roots. 

These traumas found echoes in Woman Stands Shining’s own experience of being sent to a prestigious preparatory boarding school when she was 14 – where she rapidly learned to suppress her authentic self to survive.

Sharing about her recent trauma work to begin to integrate those parts of herself that felt a constant need to perform to earn the right to belong, Woman Stands Shining explains how her cultures’ communal approach to restoration can help us “reenter the womb of original beauty.”  

This episode offers a moving and relatable transmission of Indigenous cosmology delivered with Woman Stands Shining’s characteristic blend of warmth, humility, wisdom and humour. It will be a nourishing listen for anybody ready to rediscover our inherent potential to serve as blessings for each other —- and who wants a practical introduction to applying principles handed down via Indigenous lineages over millennia to trauma healing work.

This conversation was recorded as part of Radical Abundance & Fearless Generosity – Earth’s Way, Our Calling. a Regenerative Masterclass offered by Woman Stands Shining, Pat McCabe on January 20, 2026. To enroll in a self-study version of the course, please click here.

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Further Resources:

Pat McCabe’s website

Radical Abundance & Fearless Generosity – Earth’s Way, Our Calling. A Regenerative Masterclass with Woman Stands Shining, Pat McCabe.

About Woman Stands Shining, Pat McCabe:
Woman Stands Shining, Pat McCabe, is of the Diné Nation (Navajo), adopted into the Lakota spiritual way of life. She is a mother and grandmother, an international speaker/teacher, a global ceremonialist, radical bridger, and a listener for radical proposals from Spirit. Her current work is around trauma healing as a renaissance for human presence on the planet, restoration of the Sacred Masculine, reimagining money to protect the sacred, and participating in Earth’s movements through “Land Back” or Land Reunion — in which entrenched narratives and beliefs are being disrupted through the return of land to Indigenous sovereign relationship.