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Transcript: Katherine Gottlieb

The Family Wellness Warriors Initiative incorporates the native value of sharing stories

[Gottlieb:]
We have philosophies around the Family Wellness Warriors Initiative that I wanted to tell you about, also. It comes again from the Native values of sharing story. So part of what we’re doing around Family Wellness Warriors Initiative is sharing story, sharing what has happened to us in the past as men and women, and I’m one of them. I tell my story of my abuse and my domestic violence, my child neglect as a child, and how I grew up in that atmosphere because of an alcoholic mother, and then I share my story openly to help break the silence with other people, and in sharing story, maybe people can relate to me and how I’ve walked this out, and where a rehabilitation can come, and how a community can actually rise above maybe circumstances and continue on with life.