Season Three
In Season 3, Remembering Resilience podcast hosts Susan Beaulieu, Briana Matrious, and Linsey McMurrin continue to explore stories of collective and individual healing, and how our communities can continue their journeys of “Remembering Resilience.” New host Deanna Drift joins this season with co-host Mickey Foley to reflect on food sovereignty as resilience and invites community leaders in food sovereignty to share their knowledge. This podcast explores NEAR Science, Historical Trauma, and ways Indigenous communities and individuals in Minnesota are creating and Remembering Resilience.
Season Three Podcast Hosts:
Briana Matrious, Susan Beaulieu, Linsey McMurrin, Deanna Drift
The Remembering Resilience podcast episodes #1-4 may 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. Remember, we are stronger together. #LetsHealTogether
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As children, we develop “attachment styles” as a result of the parenting we receive, and we carry these habits into our adult relationships. In this episode, listeners learn about the four main attachment styles, how they often come about in child-parent relationships, and how developing a consciousness of these patterns can help us choose and develop healthy relationships as adults. Podcast hosts Susan Beaulieu, Briana Matrious, and Linsey McMurrin discuss how in Native American communities, attachment styles and parenting are mixed up with the intergenerational inheritance of trauma from the boarding school era and other violence wrought by colonization. Leading by example with their own personal reflections, the hosts begin charting a path towards disrupting unhealthy relationship patterns and remembering the resilience passed down through generations that have survived and kept the wisdom and values of their communities alive.
As children, our need for connection can override our impulse to be true to our authentic selves. But in adulthood we can choose our relationships and the boundaries that govern them. With this freedom comes the responsibility to balance our needs for attachment and authenticity for the health and well-being of ourselves and others. We may want to be generous with our time and energy, but if we give too much we risk depleting ourselves and creating dependence in others. In this episode, listeners hear how podcast hosts Susan Beaulieu and Briana Matrious have experimented with setting and maintaining healthier boundaries in their lives, and how that intersects with their identities as indigenous women.
In this episode, podcast host Deanna “DeDe” Drift and co-host Mickey Foley explore the concept of food sovereignty with Dani Pieratos, a farmer of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, and Sasha Houston-Brown, Senior Communications and Advocacy Consultant with the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota. By rediscovering traditional indigenous foods and methods of growing, gathering or hunting food, we can improve our health and reconnect with our cultural roots. Episode guests and host Deanna Drift discuss how their food sovereignty practices have helped them and their communities physically, economically, and spiritually.
In this episode, podcast host Linsey McMurrin explores the connections between western and indigenous systems of thought for building healthy people and communities. In her non-profit career she works to educate communities in Social Emotional Learning (SEL), a western framework for developing healthy social and emotional skills. As a proud Anishinaabe woman, she also recognizes that the traditional wisdom of her ancestors was designed to do the same thing, well before SEL existed. Exploring connections between SEL and the Seven Grandfather Teachings, Linsey reflects on how reclaiming a relationship to traditional wisdom can be a part of restoring connection and authenticity for herself and her community. Linsey is helped along in her reflections by her two sons: 12-year-old Isaias and 7-year-old Tobias.
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