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IN SEARCH OF PUELLA
My Journey in Natural Dreamwork & Druidry



The Feeling You Keep Trying to Get Rid Of
What if the feelings we most want to get rid of are actually the raw material of transformation? Dreams and nightmares invite us into a different kind of alchemy—one that asks us not to fix what we feel, but to enter into it.
Laura Smith-Riva
6 min read


Lughnasadh: Harvesting the Wisdom of Our Dreams
Harvesting the natural wisdom of our dreams.
Laura Smith-Riva
4 min read


Avoidance as the Real Suffering
Did you ever feel like something was taken from you; something beautiful and free, some part of yourself that inexplicably went missing. How many of us, as children, have had bits and pieces stolen from us, pieces stripped from the bone of our souls? We turn to the human “God” animal, for love and support and we experience judgment, criticism, disinterest, or sometimes violence. Our true self slowly or abruptly sinks away, goes underground, into hiding and we don’t even know
Laura Smith-Riva
4 min read


Smoke Rising, Sacred Return
Dream images have the power to call us towards an inner feeling of home, a reclamation of the exiled ones.
Laura Smith-Riva
3 min read


Prayer to the spirit that animates all things
A prayer to the spirit that animates all things
Laura Smith-Riva
1 min read
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