My Kookum and family always said, "never go out with wet hair in the cold winter." The water gets into your pores, if it freezes it hits nerve ends. We have a lot of nerve ends in our scalp. If this happens the result is migraines.

I’ve done healing energy work on so many people with migraines resulting from going out in the cold with wet hair. Kookums were smart. Don’t go out in winter with wet hair.

Kookum also said if a woman goes out with wet hair on moon time and gets cold it can cause a lot of problems, sickness, headache, irregular moon time. She even said women can go crazy and lose their mind from wet hair on the moon time. So save yourself some trouble and just don’t do it. Dry your hair and never go out with wet hair on cold winter days.

My Kookum said "your feet are connected to your kidneys." She said keep your feet warm. If your feet get cold your kidneys contract. Keep your feet and head warm during winter months.

My Kookum Emily used to tell people if they were mad or in someone else’s business, "Awas mugikway ekwata." Bad Cree spelling, but those words are same as using red willow.

I tell myself this often. There nothing for me there leave it alone. Pretty much mind your business that’s not your business. She would also say "Awas ekwata" and wave her hand around even if you were nowhere near the people you were talking about to make sure my energy didn’t get sent to those people

When I was about 14, I went to sweat with my late Kookum Emily. As we waited for the sweat she told me "every time we go into ceremony we pray for all the people who are there, even the ones who lead" She said "they are human beings, they are not spirits, they need prayers, their family needs prayers"

Later on Kookum and I went to town to go to get a few things she needed for sewing. As we walked down the street she told me "when you see sick people, pray for them, you don't have to tell them you're praying for them, just pray". So we walked and she would look at me and motion towards people she thought needed prayers and Kookum and I would pray in our minds as we walked by them.

I miss her so much and I keep on doing what she told me just to pray in silence for those in need. To be kind without words, to be kind of the heart, to send love and prayers. I had a beautiful blessed childhood I will continue on with what all my family has taught me.

My late Kookum Emily used to come and talk to me about all kinds of random things that I knew nothing about. One day she said "don't talk about things you know nothing about". I thought she was strange cause she talked to me like an adult. About 20 some years later I figured it out. We need experience feeling emotion and most important truth. So we study ourself we apply what we learn to ourself first and foremost.

Once we understand ourself, where our hurt and sadness, pain, lies, greed, manipulation comes from and we understand how to let it go then we have compassion for others and we understand to some point why people are the way they are and remember when and if we were once at in a similar situation. So you learn about yourself being truthful about yourself that is where we learn the most because we are the only ones who knew every truth about ourself...

My late Kookum Emily use to tell me “always think 'what if that was my kid?'”. That’s the easiest way to learn compassion. Those simple words were told to me when I had no kids.

I ask myself if it was my child what would I want for them? And that’s how I pray about everything that comes my way.

My late dad told me what we hate in this world we or our kids will become, to teach us unconditional love. When I got older  I realized they were teaching me the road to compassion.

Grandfathers say Creator and Mother Earth don’t pick sides. They want what’s best for both and all sides. Our prayers should be following these guide lines. Took me a long time to not just learn, but carefully think everything through and follow these teachings. We love all our kids and so does Creator and Mother Earth. There’s no favourite or such a thing as more important in the spirit realm. There’s no division, no greater or less than. We are all one just trying too make it through and survive our own lesson.

My Kookum Pooyak taught me about creator and how to pray, how to behave at ceremonies, to have respect and always pray for all the people. She taught me about the butterfly and that some days our relatives in the spirit world are lonely and beg creator just to see you one moment and the mothers and grandmothers come down as butterflies and the dads and grandfathers come down as spiders and live one full year just to see you for a moment.

My Kookum Armstrong taught me the importance of family. Her home was always packed, she fed everyone, she was always getting ready for people coming she would say, "ok time to get the dinner ready". She taught me how to cook and sew, how to clean fish, and how to eat good when I was pregnant, about how berries grow and their purpose in the body.

Every time someone walked in the door she said, "feed them, make tea

My Kookum Emily said "Noosim you can ruin a beautiful story just by the way you tell it".

Example; share creation healing stories, if you're angry, worried or carry fear while telling the stories, the anger, worry, fear hits the people first and then the story.

I'm very careful and aware that I must ask creator to take my worry, fear and doubt from in and around me.

I keep repeating the prayer until I feel my energy is clear enough and then I tell the story.

Honestly, it took me about 25 yrs too figure out what my old Kookum meant.

At times when I was a kid I thought my old granny was crazy because she was the only adult who spoke too me like I was old, I'm understanding more today that she was preparing me for the future.