Identity
Articles on identity, culture and belonging, including Māori perspectives on healing and wellbeing.
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The Night the Moon Stopped the Urge – How the Maramataka became the backbone of a 90-day wellness programme
This structure I call the 90-Day Engine, the Maramataka integration —all of it—didn't come from a whiteboard session or a literature review…
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Te Maramataka — The Temporal Spine of Te Poutama o te Ora – Living by the Moon
How the Maramataka — the Māori lunar calendar — gives Te Poutama o te Ora its heartbeat Before clocks. Before timetables. Before…
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I Believed in God — But Was I Allowed To? – A Māori Christian’s Journey Through the Whakapapa Dilemma, Religious Trauma, and the Cave That Changed Everything
I did not lose my faith. I lost the colonised version of faith that had been used to wound my wairua.
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Building Kaha • Steps 1–3 – Are You a Starter, Middler, or Finisher?
Find Out Before You Choose Your 18-Day Practice Mōrena e hoa mā. Let me ask you something before we get into the…
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Not Māori Enough. Not Pākehā Enough – The Brown Pākehā
The Double Exile, and Why You're Not Broken — You're Colonised I want to tell you about a particular kind of loneliness…
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Introducing Today’s Alignment – A Daily Maramataka + TPO Rhythm Experience
Kia ora koutou, Over recent months, I have been quietly developing a new part of the IAnTeMo Counselling journey — a living…
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Taha Auaha — The Passage of Freedom – What If Your Creativity Is Not Just About Art?
The Healing Dimension of Creative Expression Ko te auaha te ara e tukuna ai ngā kōrero o te whatumanawa. Creativity is the…
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Before the First Breath – The Tapu of the Whare Tangata and What We Lost When We Forgot
There is a world that exists before a life is born. A threshold. A held space between what is and what is…
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The Whakapapa of a Wound – Series Introduction – The Wound that Carries
Humble Beginnings: Matapihi Kirihou – The founding backstory of Te Poutama o te Ora The plastic windows were never just plastic. They…
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Why Am I Not With My Mum and Dad – The Question Children Carry What the Whakapapa passes on – the Children of the Wound
The continuing story of Mere Children of the Wound This is the fourth piece in The Whakapapa of a Wound. We have…
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