culture as treatment

Explore resources that discuss how engaging in culture can be a powerful form of healing. Experience how participating in land-based activities, ceremony, and broader cultural activities can bolster hope, belonging, meaning, and purpose.

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This 5:12-minute video briefly explores commonly held myths surrounding addiction and uses a classic example of “rat park” to characterise better the realities surrounding substance abuse and addiction.#stress #physical #ratpark #watch #video

Honouring Our Strengths
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation

This 10-minute video explores the role stress can have in emotion and health. #stress #health #emotion #video #explore

Culturally-Rooted Traditions in Healing and Resistance
National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health

This 4:42-minute TED presentation explores how stress can negatively impact health. #stress #physicalhealth #video #watch

Indigenous Harm Reduction
Canadian Substance Use Knowledge and Exchange Centre

Culture is Treatment and Prevention
Ontario HIV Treatment Network

Weaving Together Indigenous Cultures and Yoga
Destination British Columbia

Culture is Treatment
SAGAcom Productions

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This audiobook comprehensively explores how stress impacts the body and mind and offers ways to begin interfacing with one's behaviour, thoughts, and emotions to reduce stress's impact on one's life. #stress #health #listen #audiobook

Indigenous Culture As Medicine
Addiction Practice Pod

This book is part of the Great Courses series and seeks to describe the effects of stress on your body and brain. #stress #listen #audiobook

Voices from the Field
National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health

This 1:29-hour-long podcast features a comprehensive exploration into how stress affects various systems of the body, specifically how it influences the brain and hormonal system and, ultimately, behaviour and emotion. #stress #hormones #health #podcast #listen

Land-based Treatment of Meth Addiction
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation

This 38-minute podcast discusses stress as far as the body is concerned and how it can result in negative and/or positive outcomes. #listen #podcast #stress

Managing Grief and Loss Through Culture and Ceremony
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation

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Talking Circle: Fact Sheet
Talking Together

This worksheet allows individuals to identify how stress may manifest in their lives and ways to combat and reduce those effects. #stress #interact #worksheet

Connecting With Culture: Growing Our Wellness Activity Guide
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation

A worksheet that allows users to identify ways in which anxiety may be manifesting in their lives. #worksheet #interact #stress

Culture-Based Practice Series
Thunderbird Partnership Foundation

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Medicine Wheel Teachings in My Healing Journey
Christine Miskonoodinkwe

This 3-minute read article explores the effects of stress on the various systems within the body and brain. #stress #body #read

Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditation
Richard Wagamese

This 3-minute read article explores how stress has positive and negative effects on the body and features an infographic. #stress #read

Beadwork
Truth and Reconciliation Community Bobcaygeon

The Power of Traditional Ways
KBIC Health System

What is Aboriginal Spirituality?
Creative Spirits

Understanding the Healing Power of Storytelling
Native Hope