Voices of Resilience: Linda EagleSpeaker

In this episode, we continue our journey into learning from respected community members what it really means to remember our resilience. Linda EagleSpeaker helps us see how the mainstream society ideals of busyness as a mark of success contradicts our traditional values of relationship with ourselves, our children and our communities and helps us better conceptualize the ongoing dichotomy between western ways of knowing and traditional ways of healing. As Linda encourages us, sometimes it as simple as making the decision she so aptly describes: "I got up, and I learned how to breathe."  

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Acknowledgements: The Remembering Resilience podcast episodes include content that may bring up a strong emotional response. Please do what you need to take care of yourself while you listen, and perhaps think of someone you could call for emotional support if necessary. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800-273-8255) and Crisis Text Line (text MN to 741741) are free supports available 24/7. 

Miigwech - Pidamayaye - Thank you. We are grateful to our many partners who made this podcast possible. This podcast was developed through a Health POWER project at Minnesota Communities Caring for Children & FamilyWise Services, with support from the Center for Prevention at BlueCross and BlueShield of Minnesota & the University of Minnesota Extension.  We give special thanks to the cohort of youth artists from First Person Productions at Migizi who developed the Remembering Resilience logo and marketing materials for the podcast.