Category: Trauma
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Recovery – a Road to Self Discovery
It can be difficult to get your groove back after taking steps in your recovery, transformation, and healing. Maybe you went into recovery because you felt your life depended on it, and there is no denying that it did. It was this desperation that propelled you down the road to recovery. Do you agree? But…
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To Honour And Respect
GIFT VISION All life is sacred. Every living being is sacred each one of us carries a sacred gift. These gifts have been obscured through colonization and genocide that has created intergenerational trauma. Substance abuse, mental health, and community and family breakdown are symptoms of this trauma. The GIFT Foundation envisions a collective way forward…
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Building A bridge in Our Everyday Dialogue Is Part of Truth and Reconciliation
My dad, Isidore Deranger and older brother, Fred Deranger I started Empathic Witness podcast in October 2020. It has over a thousand subscribers. I admit this is minor, but it is steadily building, and listeners are returning to hear new episodes. By the end of 2022, more amazing Indigenous peoples from across Canada whose words…