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Voice, Choice, and Power: Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Dr. Ruby Gibson

By Cultural Survival — 2020

Dr. Ruby Gibson (Lakota, Ojibway, Mestiza), cofounder and executive director of Freedom Lodge, a nonprofit organization in Rapid City, South Dakota that provides historical and intergenerational trauma healing to Native American communities, shares her work on Somatic Archaeology© and its healing potential. She is the author of My Body, My Earth: The Practice of Somatic Archaeology.

Read on www.culturalsurvival.org

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