Combating Ancestral Trauma with Ancestral Wisdom
Combating Ancestral Trauma with Ancestral Wisdom
“Since the beginning of time our most revered ancestors have made daily, conscious decisions to build strong minds, and even stronger hearts".
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The stigma surrounding the topic of mental health reaches back generations in societies across the globe, and in many cases, those stigmas have become so engrained into a society that members of those groups have adopted them as cultural norms. One group where these deep rooted stigmas are especially prevalent is among indigenous men.
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For the staff, the task of Addressing these stigmas is at the forefront of a movement geared at combating the idea that tribal men talking about their mental and emotional health makes them weak or vulnerable.
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One primary focus is through promotion of land and cultural connections. These topics have been at the root of many efforts put forth by the Klamath Tribes in the past to address stigmas amongst their population. In this movement, the behavioral health program introduced an approach to healing historical traumas within the tribal communities of Klamath County.
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YFGC staff have kicked off a new virtual education program, hiswaaqs sdaynas (the male/men’s heart), aimed at providing tribal men insight into how historical trauma, epigenetics, and societal norms influence the way emotions are processed and passed down through
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