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One Way to Find Hidden Wisdom

One Way to Find Hidden Wisdom

a helpful visualization exercise that surprised me

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Donna McArthur
Apr 06, 2025
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After putting a lot of effort into researching and writing The Guilt Series which you can find on my website (you’ll see it in the navigation bar at the top) I’m giving myself a break this week to share a fun post from a couple of years ago. It’s about spirit animals and my initial skepticism. I was recently reminded of this essay by my friend
Michael Edward
who said he has used this exercise a few times since reading about it here, so I’m hoping you might find it useful as well. Heads up Sweetie, if you’ve already read this essay I updated it at the end so take a look.

My new spirit animal! image created by Ian Mikraz

There’s been a lot of talk in the last decade about figuring out our spirit animal. While I’m into all things Spirit the number of times I’ve felt called to go down this road was zero.

It’s unlikely that my white middle class ancestors were wandering the plains looking for guidance from their animal (I don’t want to even think about what they were doing on those plains, but I digress)…

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