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Brenda MacIntyre, ᒪᐢᑭᑭᓂᑲᒧᐣ ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ 😷
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Medicine Song Woman. 🎤😷Indigenous Keynote Speaker/Singer, Hand Drummer. Long COVID, CFS/ME & CPTSD. GenX. Trauma-informed virtual circles and mentoring for COVID-conscious women. NO DMs without permission. https://medicinesongwoman.com 😷she/her
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I can't. He's too busy clamouring to get onto my chair to cuddle my face. I'm a singer and my voice is healing. Cats tend to come running for a cuddle when I sing over zoom at my events lol. But 1st photo is often what he looks like while I sit on the edge of my bed with him and sing to him.
my grey cat doing a faceplant on my leg my grey cat Pixie sitting on top of my Indigenous hand drum, which is covered in a hand-made "drum-hugger" in red, black, yellow and white for the four directions.
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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As a giant storm slowly moves over us, let me show you what came first... 😍 Incredible sunset before the storm in London Ontario Canada. 9pm EDT tonight, June 27th, 2025. Descriptions in the alt text. Just taken with my iPhone, no fancy settings and completely unedited. #ShareYourWeather #OnStorm
A huge blueish white cloud front takes up nearly 2/3 of the top of the picture. A thin strip of sunset is across the middle with a blueish rain core slightly to the left of centre. Under that is a landscape of trees. At the bottom right is the rooftop of a building. Taken from my balcony several floors up looking northwest in London Ontario. A huge blueish white cloud front now covered in reddish orange sunset light, with sunrays pushing through - this takes up nearly 2/3 of the top of the picture. A thin strip of sunset is across the middle as the sun seems to brighten and spread out even more as it begins to go down. The rain core is now to the right of the photo, while the sun is left of centre. Under that is a landscape of trees. The sunset's bright reddish orange glow begins to fill the sky, with orange sunrays stretching from top to bottom of the photo. Taken from my balcony several floors up looking northwest in London Ontario. A huge storm cloud front takes up 1/4 of the top of the picture as it begins to go over our building. The sun is halfway down, on the left and about 3/4 way down the photo. The entire sky is now lit up with an extra radiant reddish orange glow. Sunrays flow over the treeline below. Under that is a landscape of trees. Taken from my balcony several floors up looking northwest in London Ontario.
June 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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All those of you who lost your father, who never knew your biological father, and anyone who whose grandchildren are without a father, I see you. I feel you. That’s what this is for me. If Father’s Day is triggering for you, you are not alone.
I had written a really nice alt text about my beautiful son and his newborn daughter that he’s holding in this picture and I don’t have the spoons to do it again after Blu sky glitched and got rid of it all. I hate Father’s Day. My son was murdered in 2016 so his little girl is fatherless now. My adoptive dad, who was Scottish and English, stands proudly, smiling with a great big fish that he caught. This was in front of our house in Calgary, where I was born and adopted at birth. My biological father never even knew I existed. He had Métis and Cree background with a little bit of Ojibwe. My adoptive dad died of a massive heart attack when I was just about to turn 18. I found him. Now you know why I hate Father’s Day so much.
June 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Tips for Northern Lights:
1. Use your phone/camera. Naked eye may not see it.
2. For 1-3 hours before, the north sky might have a subtle arc of haze (like this photo but could be faded blue/white).
3. This was 7:39pm Oct 10/24. A faded display began at 7:49pm BUT the BIG DISPLAY was 10pm-3:30am!
Photo of the beginning of Northern Lights on October 10, 2024 at 7:39pm in London Ontario, from my apartment balcony facing northwest. I often see a hazy arc like this one, usually more faded and white, before the real display begins. I deleted most of those photos, so showing this one just so you can see what it might look like. It might seem boring and like nothing is going to happen but that's where you would be wrong. If you see that arc, wait it out if you can because it's likely that a beautiful Aurora display is happening soon. Also, the entire display that night went from when I took this picture at 7:39pm all the way to 3:30am but there were times when I thought it might be over. If I hadn't waited until 10pm, I wouldn't have gotten all the stunning photos I did. Best display ever. See the post above this one for one of the best photos I got that night.
June 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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TONIGHT on Turtle Island (most of Canada, some of the states) you might be able to see the #NorthernLights tonight. I saw them a bit last night here in London Ontario. The KP index is super high at 7. These photos are from May 10/24 and Oct 10/24 off my balcony. www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/...
Photo of the Northern Lights from May 10, 2024 off my balcony in London Ontario Canada. The sky was literally raining with colourful lights. The photo shows hues of green, purple, red, pink and a deep blue. To the left is the edge of my building. Down below are trees, a road and a building. The New Moon is present but looks like a little glowing ball over some of the green lights on the right middle of the photo. Photo of the Northern Lights I took on October 10-11, 2024 from my apartment balcony in London Ontario Canada. This display was the best I've ever seen in my life. In this photo, a huge sheet of green curtains with a splash of red, yellow and pink on the left. It filled nearly the whole sky and went on from 10pm to 3:30am, probably longer but I went to bed because most of the super vibrant colours and fast-moving curtains were gone by then.
June 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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This is me in all of my neurodivergence… helping humanity and the planet while helping myself heal. I use the HeartMath Inner Balance app, HeartMath Global Coherence app and the Visible app. I’ll show you how in this thread and the alt text of the images. /1 #LongCovid
My morning session using the HeartMath Inner Balance app. It shows an average coherence between my heart and brain of 2.0, which is just under the beginning of the high range. There are two graphs. The top one shows my heart rate variability (HRV). It also shows my heart rate average was 57. The bottom graph has colours representing different levels of heart-brain coherence. Low is yellow, medium is blue and high is green. It shows the highest rating I had was 7.3, and it shows the percentage of time I spent on each level. Other than the graphs, it shows my coherence points for the entire session and it shows the length of the session. For this one I got 560 coherence points and my session was 24 minutes, 16 seconds. The more coherence I have, the healthier I will tend to feel because high coherence means high heart rate variability. Heart rate variability varies between individuals so you can’t compare between people. You track it for yourself over time to watch the patterns. it’s important for me to stay here that this app Came for free with the inner balance device. I don’t know if you can get the app for free without it. If not, you should be able to get the global coherence app for free. Screenshot of final scores of my own heart, brain coherence, and the global heart brain coherence for all of us who were contributing by feeling and sending positive feelings out to the world. I was experimenting with vocal toning, instead of just doing coherent, breathing, so my inhalation was about feeling ease and bringing more ease for myself first, and then sounding it out to the world. My biggest medicine is my voice, and my experiment is showing me how powerful that is. But it’s not just my voice. Vocal toning changes your energy while you’re doing it. If you want to try this, get the app, which is free, join a session and when you exhale, make an effortless steady vowel sound like ahhh or ohhh. It’s like singing except it’s just one note and you don’t have to get it perfect. Notice how high my coherence is here as compared to the inner balance app, where I was just breathing and even did some sounding, but I was doing it by myself. We are more powerful together. As I was doing the sounding, score jumped as high as 11.2. That makes the global score jump higher as well. Science shows that our heart fields and the coherence between our brain and our heart actually impact the entire planet. Since I have to lie down and breathe a lot as part of my long Covid recovery, why not contribute to the healing of the planet? My morning stability score on the Visible app is 4 out of 5 today. Using my phone’s camera, this free app measures your heart rate variability when you wake up, which correlates with how stable you are in terms of pain, symptoms, and management of them. The app is for people like me with long Covid or other energy limiting diseases or disabilities. I’m not an affiliate. I just like to help people. And this thing is very helpful for me and for many people.
May 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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CO2 should be <600. <800 is ok. >1000 is too high. The more CO2, the more of other people’s air you’re inhaling. The more CO2, the easier SARS-Co-V2 can infect you. I shouldn’t have to choose between what will kill me fast and what will kill me slowly. That’s apt. living.
An Aranet 4 CO2 monitor with a lilac coloured square label on it. The CO2 reading is 1023. The humidity is 42. The temperature is 23.6° C. I have no way of knowing how much of that CO2 belongs to us and how much is from the neighbors. There’s at least 7 or 8 other families on this floor. That escalates my chances of catching Covid or any other airborne virus. Since I am immune-compromised from fairly severe long Covid with heart and lung complications, I’m supposed to avoid secondhand smoke and all the artificial fragrances that come in here every day. I can’t. Sometimes it comes from inside the hallway and sometimes it comes from outside the window or the balcony doors. Sometimes “fresh air” is not fresh air.
May 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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My N95s and Aranet4 CO2 and humidity monitor keep me aware and safer on medical outings (i’m otherwise housebound). HEPAs and CR boxes keep me safer in my own apartment where nobody cares about clean air or Covid.
Aranet4 CO2 reading screenshot. Readings are from my apartment to a medical outing in two different spaces in the same building and then back home. There is a jagged green line under the 800 mark for inside my apartment. The lowest readings were when we went outside to get the Uber. The highest readings are inside a medical facility getting X-Rays and bloodwork in separate rooms. The highest reading was 1405 and the lowest 812 except the quick dips to 430ish outside. Being in an apartment building means even with my windows and balcony doors open, it can still be high. It really should be under 600. The lighting isn’t great but it’s a brand new CR box built to eliminate Covid, bacteria, and allergens from the air. Everything is sparkling white and the filters are sort of a a bit of an off-white because of the lighting, but they were actually white when I took the photo. A CR box stands for Corsi Rosenthal box. It’s a DIY air purification system that gets rid of virus in the air. It’s basically a floor fan on top of a box made out of MERV13 furnace filters with some makeshift legs on the bottom to hold it up off the floor, and the whole thing is taped together. A CR box, otherwise known as a Corsi Rosenthal box, a DIY air purification system designed to get rid of virus, allergens, bacteria, and other stuff we shouldn’t be breathing in. This one is about two years old now, and the folds of the filter are a light grayish brown and heavy with how much disgusting stuff has gotten stuck in the filter instead of in my lungs. The only reason I still have this one running in my bedroom is because I don’t get much apartment neighbour air in my bedroom. Also, I just don’t have the energy or capacity to take this thing apart safely for my body, so it will stay until my daughter and I can manage it together. It’s a floor fan on top of a box made out of MERV13 furnace filters with makeshift legs on the bottom.
April 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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What in the winter is this?! So spring maybe in June then? 🥶 #ldnont #shareyourweather #blizzard
April 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Oh, I have some choice words for Ruby. However, since responding will tell them my phone number is valid and this might not even be legit, they get no response from me except blockity block. 🤮🤮🤮 #Canada #NeverPoilievre #CarneyforPM #WomenAgainstPoilievre #cdnpoli #CanadaStrong
Text message saying: This is Ruby with Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party. Can we count on your support in the upcoming Federal election?
April 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Who knew that today is International Fact-checking Day? 😂 #Canada
A blue and purple swirly background saying today is International Fact-Checking Day. Carry on. Sarcastic smiling emoji.
April 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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I love the Visible app for helping me track my long Covid pacing and symptoms. Today is the second time I’ve had a 5/5 score since April last year when I started using the app. Taking the win! #chronicillness
A screenshot of my morning check-in with the Visible app for long Covid, MECFS and other energy limiting chronic diseases. I am celebrating a score of 5/5. The score is based on my resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep and symptoms. The title is Morning Stability. It says stable and improving.
March 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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About me: I’m a trauma-informed COVID-conscious Indigenous speaker, facilitator and mentor with Long COVID. I don’t just speak or coach women. I use my JUNO-winning voice, music and mindfulness practices to help midlife women to ease their way through life's big moments in this uneasy world.
Brenda MacIntyre, a light-skinned Indigenous woman, smiles and sings with her hand drum in a forest. Her long dark hair cascades down her side. She holds a drumstick that is a natural varnished branch with reddish hue and a moose hide covered end. The drum is almost an egg shape, with walnut oil tyedyed moose hide in various shades of tan and brown. A few red and white ribbons hang from the drum. The forest is blurred in the background.
March 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I love the Visible app for this. As long as I use it regularly, I get a monthly funcap check-in. It also gives me a beautiful monthly PDF with charts showing trends customized around what I’m tracking. #LongCovid #MECFS
Screenshot from the Visible app of my functional capacity over several months, showing an average of around 3.5 out of 6. July was the highest at 4.3. Screenshot from the Visible app showing my current ratings on my last fun cap (functional capacity) check-in. It shows several categories for energy limiting diseases. It’s a sort of a bar graph showing different coloured and different length bars. The categories are things like communication and reactions to light and sound.
March 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Just gonna leave this here...
#ChronicIllness #LongCOVID #CovidConscious #PwME #PwLC #FordFailedOntario #CanadaSky
A light blue cloudy sky with a Full Moon peaking out. A tree is on the right. On the left it says "It's okay to just feel what you feel." On the bottom is a microphone emoji and BRENDA MACINTYRE with my website medicinesongwoman.com.
March 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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I often have to choose between terrible outdoor air coming in my windows or the pot smoke and CO2 from the apartment neighbours filling up my lungs. My Aranet4 shows how bad it’s been in this cold snap w/o enough fresh air due to temps. The dips to great CO2 are balcony doors & bdrm window open.
IQAir reading for part of London Ontario. It shows PM 2.5 at 23.2. At the bottom of the image is a graph. About 3/4 of the graph is green and most mostly lower than 20, indicating great outdoor air quality. The 1/4 on the right is a spike of yellow bars up to nearly 100. The AQI reading is 77 but when I woke up, it was 89. You can get the IQ air app or or look up the map on your computer. An Aranet4 carbon dioxide reading of 741 ppm, showing the past week of CO2 with wide fluctuations from just above 400 all the way to 1059. The spikes are when I’ve had to close the balcony doors and maybe a window for a while to warm up. The dips are when I can create a wind tunnel between a bedroom window and the balcony doors. Since I live in an apartment building, not all of that CO2 belongs to us. That means SARS-CoV-2, Flu A and other airborne viruses that thrive in CO2 can get in here. I use 2 large CR boxes and multiple HEPA filters to clean my air. The problem is, those can’t get rid of the VOCs from the neighbours’ pot smoke or outdoor pollution coming in your windows, so it’s a fine balance.
February 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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3 things that make me who I am:

1. I walk my talk. I help women to find their voice because I had to find mine.

2. My first 2 languages are Spirit and Song. Everything I do starts there.

3. #COVIDconscious Gen X underdog to the bitter end.

What are 3 things that make you who you are?
On the left side on an off-white background is a selfie of a light-skinned Indigenous woman Brenda MacIntyre with dark and silver hair and blue-framed glasses. She smiles with a raised eyebrow and wears a black shirt with white polkadots. On the right side on a plain white background it says 3 things that make me who I am. At the bottom right corner is a logo saying Brenda MacIntyre, Medicine Song Woman.
February 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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With all this chaos and lack of humanity, how are you holding up? A few #TraumaTips for you...

Check in instead of checking out.

Deepen and slow your breathing.

Listen to your body, heart and spirit.

What do you need? Tend to yourself as if you were a small child.

#CovidConscious #LongCOVID
There is a yellow background at the top with burgundy text. With all this chaos and lack of humanity, how are you holding up? Which number are you? Below on a white background are cat photos numbered 1 to 6. The grey cat is Pixie, number 2 is our old kitty Pepper, and the black and white cat is our dear little rescue cat Sukie. Pepper and Sukie are both in the spirit world. Pixie is still with us. 1. A little grey kitten sleeping on a blue blanket. 2. A grey tabby cat with glowing eyes is hiding under a bed on a hardwood floor. 3. The kitten from picture number one is grown up and curled up inside an otherwise empty grey carry-on suitcase. 4. The grey cat peeks out from behind blue and white shower curtains from inside the bathtub. 5. A black and white cat is hiding under a large sheet of packing paper. 6. The black and white cat is sleeping on top of a dark brown leather couch. The grey cat is begrudgingly lying beside her after being unable to get her to chase him.
February 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Yep. All it gives me is the monthly option or the same as I have now. No other options.
Screenshot showing Microsoft 365 personal and the Microsoft logo, with my only two options for a plan. 1. Current plan yearly CAD $115. 2. Monthly CAD $11.50. At the bottom right is a button that says Next.
February 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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How'd you get to the basic plan, Johanne? I'm only seeing an option to upgrade and actually that's where all the AI stuff is. Oh wow yep. That is my ONLY option is to pay even more!! I can either change it to monthly for more $$ or upgrade and get the AI bloat I don't want. Details in alt text.
Hard to describe this hot mess but basically, it's inside my Microsoft 365 Personal account, showing 2 options. 1. Unlock more cloud storage. AI-powered features in productivity apps like Word and PowerPoint, advanced security, and more. Upgrade. Option 1 is clearly an upgrade to an even higher price. I didn't open it just in case. 2. Manage subscription. Next charge on 16/03/2025. CAD $115.00 (a 31% increase) plus applicable taxes. Option 2 only let me "Switch plan" to a monthly payment plan that of course costs even more but they don't tell you how much more until you click, and I am not clicking.
February 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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This steep incline the US tech bros are headed up. Unfknreal. This, from Microsoft today.

Basically, a big suckup to me, their "valued" subscriber (to Word, Excel etc.), and then a whopping 31% price increase for us Canadians.

Word alternatives, anyone? I'll go back to Libre if nothing better.
Microsoft Logo Thank you for being a valued Microsoft 365 subscriber. To reflect the value we’ve added over the past decade, address rising costs and enable us to continue delivering new innovations, we’re increasing the price of your subscription. Effective 14 February 2025, the price for Microsoft 365 Personal subscriptions will increase from CAD 79.00* per year to CAD 115.00* per year. My screenshot cut off part of a line saying no action on my part needed because of course they will go ahead and charge my card happily, at this ridiculous 31% price increase. They at least show me how to change or stop the auto-renewal. Then they tell me all about "a whole new life for your favourite apps" etc. and how they've done so much over the last decade to improve and add features that they deserve this huge price increase. They also use the word "value" to trick you psychologically. "Thank you for being a valued subscriber." And then "to reflect the value we've added."
February 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Join our upcoming virtual events for #YallMasking #covidconscious women and nb folx. Many of us have #chronicillness #MECFS #LongCOVID. Live Indigenous music. All events are FREE or PWYC. Learn more and register here: medicinesongwoman.com/events. Pls share. More details in the alt text.
Background image is Brenda MacIntyre singing and hand drumming with an eagle feather at her hand at the Picking Up the Pieces CD Launch Party on September 13th, 2019. Purple-lit stage drapes in the back on a small stage at Small World Music Centre in Toronto. Title: Upcoming Virtual Events For #YallMasking Women Feb 12, 7pm EST Full Moon Healing Circle March 7, 6pm EST 15th Annual Women’s emPOWER Hour March 12, 7pm EDT Full Moon Healing Circle March 20, 6pm EDT RE-AWAKEN 2025 Bottom of image includes Medicine Song Woman's logo, which is a word mark saying Brenda MacIntyre, Medicine Song Woman. medicinesongwoman.com/events.
February 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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A1 Tansi! Hi! I’m a disabled Indigenous keynote speaker/singer. I’m also a trauma-informed personal mentor and virtual event host for Covid-conscious women. 🔗 in my bio. Been using Visible app daily since April 2024 and love it. I’m a 4/5 today after a crash yesterday. Thx for this #VisibleAppChat!
Light-skinned Indigenous woman in a dark brown winter coat, blue framed glasses and a reflex N95 mask. I have a surprise and somewhat pleasant look on my face. Behind me are hospital signs. I was happy that my Aranet4 was showing excellent indoor air quality, and that I could get a hospital wheelchair easily since I can’t walk more than five minutes.
February 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Yes cat purring is scientifically proven to be good for us. 😻 My cat Pixie here. #visibleappchat #longcovid #mecfs
A gray cat on top of a hand. On the left is big, colourful Indigenous-made blanket, on the right is a tan coloured pillow. He’s lying on a bed with a pastel purple bedsheet with his human.
February 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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#Caturday with this sweet ol’ 12yo little man chilling on top of one of my hand drums. 😆 Happy 12th Birthday Pixie!
My grey cat Pixie loafing on top of my hand drum. The hand drum is covered by a crocheted circular elasticized sort of tea cozy my friend made and gifted me. She called it a drum hugger. It has wide rings around it in the 4 colours of the medicine wheel: red, black, yellow and white.
January 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM