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Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 11, 20213 min read
Another Truth about Suicide
photo by Barry Weatherall via Unsplash So. Here we are. Today is Thursday. All day long. I began the day with rhinos knocking on the...
Ingrid Oliphant
Nov 9, 20204 min read
We Do This Together
A Facebook connection shared this earlier today, written by a third party: No one is coming to save you, but it is not because you are...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 18, 20204 min read
On Demons
I work with ‘invisible’ beings, those that most cannot see. I am surrounded by them. They span the spectrum from Ancestors to angels,...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 27, 20201 min read
Out of Outrage
I don’t know when it was I ran out of space for outrage. I can’t remember if there was a singular sudden clap of thunder-like something...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 21, 20201 min read
Corona-Inspired Empath Myth-Tip #2
Like the other gift that keeps on giving, it can cause great unseen harm and reinforces fears and trauma response. It is this: “you are...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 4, 20201 min read
The Grief You are Feeling
Photo by Kat Jayne on Pexels.com The grief we are feeling is not the private sort. That exists but this is not it. What we are feeling is...
Ingrid Oliphant
Apr 1, 20201 min read
On Marvin Gaye
Today is the anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s death. I was 14, getting ready for school and heard the news on my radio. And I lost my shit....
Ingrid Oliphant
Nov 6, 20191 min read
Oh, Child.
Oh, Child. You are not just a child of God. You are the answer to aeons of prayer. You were made this way before breath brought you to...
Ingrid Oliphant
Sep 17, 20191 min read
The Disappeared but Not Dead
There are so many who just want to come home. They are alive. There are so many mothers and brothers who think they’re dead. They’re not....
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 18, 20193 min read
Oh, My Darling Empath
You have no idea You have no idea your desire to retreat is merely your fear of meeting yourself in another. You have no idea that your...
Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 25, 20192 min read
My secret is safe with your secret….
I’ve shared before the confusion and despair felt when ignored by tribal leadership I’ve reached out to across the continent. Whether the...
Ingrid Oliphant
Feb 24, 20191 min read
Afraid to feel?
Does it feel foolish to you, impossible even, that your ‘feeling too much’ isn’t that at all? Can you, even the tiniest of moments...
Ingrid Oliphant
Sep 5, 20174 min read
Speak Now or Forever…
The weight of this sad time we must obey Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most, we that are young...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jul 11, 20172 min read
Deadly Devotion
To cry “Save our Mother” while prying open the thighs of her daughters, slashing and burning through souls… To dance for Durga and honor...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jun 23, 20171 min read
Joy Abandoned
Taken from a FB Q & A yesterday: Joy left in November and only shows her face briefly. Holding it together doesn’t seem to allow for joy....
Ingrid Oliphant
Mar 1, 20171 min read
Feeling the Pain is not Failure to Thrive
The avoidance is There is a new, perhaps renewed, ‘depth’ of raw feeling within many and a deep desire to express it. As if, the...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jan 23, 20171 min read
On Hope and Harm
Hope, faith, justice, freedom and love do not require the disparaging of or denial another. In fact, they are the antithesis of it. Can...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jul 27, 20162 min read
“I never knew I was cherished. Until now.”
I never hungered for food as a child. I starved, though, for the love of my mother–something beyond the loneliness in the emotional sea...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jul 25, 20162 min read
Experiencing Christ
What does it mean when people see you as Jesus or have an experience with Jesus when with you? There is more than one answer to this...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jul 1, 20161 min read
No Time for Miracles?
Yesterday, I watched part of a documentary called Holy Ghost. The whole movie is an exploration of proselytizing around the globe by...
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