Warrior-caregivers : understanding the challenges and healing of First Nations men : a guide prepared for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation / Copy 2

Since healing must deal with struggles and losses of Indigenous people, it employs the power of the Great Spirit and the wisdom and strength of living and spirit creatures that have found ways to overcome adversities. [...] Cosmology - the study of knowledge of the origin and nature of the universe. [...] Decolonization includes the reevaluation of the political, social, economic, and judicial structures themselves and the development, if appropriate, of new structures that can hold and house the values and aspirations of the colonized people" (Burgess, 2000:155). [...] Depression - "signifies a form of suffering experienced as demoralization and hopelessness, the resignation and loss of animus of a dispirited ego, a form of suffering experienced and expressed by the sufferer as an affliction of the central goal-striving system of the soul or ego" (Shweder, 1991:317). [...] The English word "pleasure" is a sensual word; the z of the "s" and the sound of the "u" coming from deep within one's body, trapping the wellsprings of desire and curiosity, a knowing that resides within self (Gilligan, 2002).… (more)