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Restorying your story : reclaiming your voice in the face of past injustice  Cover Image Book Book

Restorying your story : reclaiming your voice in the face of past injustice / Michael Gauthier.

Gauthier, Michael, (author.).

Summary:

The stories we tell ourselves about our lives matter. How we make sense of the past affects how we make sense of the present -- it can mean the difference between continuing patterns of harm and being the one to break the cycle. Scholar and author Michael Gauthier knows this struggle intimately. As a young Indigenous man grappling with the lasting effects of colonialism and intergenerational trauma, Michael turned to addiction to ease the pain and found himself in the prison system. In the intervening years, Michael has worked to understand how Indigenous people can find empowerment through the act of restorying their own lives. Gauthier draws on his PhD research in which he carried out Restorying circles using the Medicine Wheel as a guide to help formerly incarcerated Indigenous men map a new future by looking to their past. Now in Restorying Your Story, Gauthier invites readers to explore the universal application of restorying, and how it can be a powerful tool for all of us to build a good life.

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  • ISBN: 9781778540745 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: xix, 182 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Victoria, BC : Medicine Wheel Publishing, 2025.k.

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Subject: Decolonization > Canada.
Generational trauma > Canada.
Healing.
Indigenous peoples > Mental health > Canada.
Indigenous peoples > Canada > Psychology.
Indigenous peoples > Substance use.
Post-traumatic stress disorder > Treatment > Canada.

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Summary: The stories we tell ourselves about our lives matter. How we make sense of the past affects how we make sense of the present -- it can mean the difference between continuing patterns of harm and being the one to break the cycle. Scholar and author Michael Gauthier knows this struggle intimately. As a young Indigenous man grappling with the lasting effects of colonialism and intergenerational trauma, Michael turned to addiction to ease the pain and found himself in the prison system. In the intervening years, Michael has worked to understand how Indigenous people can find empowerment through the act of restorying their own lives. Gauthier draws on his PhD research in which he carried out Restorying circles using the Medicine Wheel as a guide to help formerly incarcerated Indigenous men map a new future by looking to their past. Now in Restorying Your Story, Gauthier invites readers to explore the universal application of restorying, and how it can be a powerful tool for all of us to build a good life.

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