So small, so helpless, the newborn infant cannot even lift his head or roll over on his own, but he holds in his tiny form a strength unimaginable to those who love him, for this tiny child inspires motivation and courage in his parents that they didn’t even know existed. For him, they would […]
I am awake, I am alive and this morning all I am thinking is self-care is essential care… As a younger woman, we didn’t speak of “mental health”. Rather we just accepted “how people were”. Personally, I just knew that some days I was on top of the world and on others, I had […]
I am awake, I am alive, and again today I sit at the helm of this amazing journey I am living, commonly known as “my desk”. I smile as I sit in the office chair, long ago warped to perfectly fit my butt. Here my dreams become words shared with the world in a […]
I am awake, I am alive, and today is National Indigenous Peoples Day! Today, men and women from all our Indigenous nations will dance – the Dene and Coast Salish, the Ojibwe and the Cree, the Iroquois and the Blackfoot and on and on. They will sing. They will pray. Or they won’t. Because […]
Sandi’s story followed a path all too common for Indigenous women, a path that included career success while hiding the violence, poverty, and alcoholism that rocked her family to their core.