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When Wolves Show Mercy — What Animals Teach Us About Violence
Mercy isn’t human—it’s older. Wolves, elephants, bonobos all remember: creation belongs to life, not at its expense.
Amber Howard
Oct 23 min read


Beasts, Brutes, and Brothers — How We’ve Used “Animal” to Define Ourselves
We say “animal” like an insult. But what if the horror isn’t because we’re animals— but because we’ve forgotten that we are?
Amber Howard
Oct 14 min read


Life Is Complicated (And That’s the Point)
We weren’t meant to untangle it alone. Life is complex—and we’re here to make meaning together, thread by thread, heart by heart.
Amber Howard
Sep 303 min read


The Quiet Consequence of Saying Yes When We Mean No
Saying yes when we mean no plants resentment. Responsibility begins with honouring our truth, even when it’s uncomfortable.
Amber Howard
Sep 243 min read


Clarity Is the Beginning of Freedom
When we align with what’s true, we begin to sketch a new reality—one choice, one breath, one brushstroke at a time.
Amber Howard
Sep 173 min read


Even This: A Soft Place to Return To
Even in darkness, we can choose to believe life is unfolding for our good. Not as truth—but as a frame that helps us return to love.
Amber Howard
Sep 152 min read


Tending the Garden: Self-Care, Boundaries, and the Sacred Pause
You are the steward of your well-being. Sometimes that means facing discomfort. Sometimes, it means pause, stillness, and walking away.
Amber Howard
Sep 132 min read


The Echo of Every Blow
When empathy becomes conditional, we lose more than truth—we lose each other. Every act of violence echoes forward. Choose softly.
Amber Howard
Sep 122 min read


The Currency of Joy
Joy isn’t a reward—it’s a frequency. A life in right relationship doesn’t chase joy, it becomes it. Moment by moment, breath by breath.
Amber Howard
Sep 103 min read


The Trap of the Shoulds
Every “should” is a tiny betrayal of self. When we stop obeying them, we start hearing our truth—and that’s where freedom begins.
Amber Howard
Sep 103 min read


The Assumptions We Live Inside
We don’t react to what is—we react to what we perceive, then assume it’s true. Assumptions cost us clarity, connection, and truth.
Amber Howard
Sep 102 min read


The Necessity of Valves
When life builds pressure, we need conscious valves—not escapes—to stay present, soft, and whole. This is how we return to ourselves.
Amber Howard
Sep 32 min read


Where Things Bloom Effortlessly
When you’re in the right environment, you don’t need to force growth. You just bloom—again and again—with ease.
Amber Howard
Sep 23 min read


Beyond Missing: Rewriting the Spell of Separation
What if saying I miss you is casting a spell of absence? I’m choosing language that creates love, not separation.
Amber Howard
Aug 302 min read


The Created Life: Remembering Sacred Time
Without clocks, I lost all sense of time. But maybe the invitation isn’t to escape it — it’s to remember sacred time within.
Amber Howard
Aug 272 min read


As Long as the Sun Shines, the Grass Grows, and the Rivers Flow
A treaty is not just a document — it’s a sacred agreement, a living relationship meant to last “as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow.” Across the world, these promises have been broken, and yet the land remembers. The work of our time is to return to right relationship — with the Earth, with each other, and with the generations yet to come.
Amber Howard
Aug 143 min read


If Not “Human Being”… Then What?
We call ourselves “human beings” without question, but the name was never meant to hold all of us. Rooted in “earth-born man,” it erased the feminine and narrowed who counted as fully human — a narrowing still alive today in our language, laws, and systems. When we name ourselves differently, we reclaim what was left out and see ourselves whole.
Amber Howard
Aug 133 min read


Loneliness in the Age of Eight Billion
Loneliness can slip in anywhere — on a crowded train, in a room full of friends, even in the glow of your phone at midnight. The world calls it a crisis, but it’s really a signal: proof you are still human in a culture that has forgotten how to gather. Connection can be rebuilt, not with grand gestures, but with small, timeless acts — a shared meal, a lingering conversation, a glance that says, I see you.
Amber Howard
Aug 122 min read


The Walls We Inherit, The Bridges We Remember
In a circle of open hearts, a friend’s words reminded me how easily we build invisible walls — generation against generation, difference against difference. But our differences are the colours of the quilt, not the reason to tear the fabric. When we sit together without agenda, as I did in my twenties with women decades ahead of me, wisdom flows. The walls dissolve, and all that’s left is the weaving.
Amber Howard
Aug 115 min read


When the Word is Ceremony
Communication is more than the transfer of information — it is ceremony. Being is the altar, Frequency the song, Reception the circle. When we tend all three, words become seeds that can grow trust, healing, and transformation.
Western models give clarity and speed; ceremonial ways bring depth and connection. Held together, they give our words both precision and soul, allowing them to move not just minds, but hearts.
Amber Howard
Aug 104 min read
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