LIFE as Medicine
Summer Newsletter
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Greetings from LIFE as Medicine
The Sun is high, the Rivers are warm, and the Land is in full bloom—inviting us into deeper connection with nature and with each other.
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We at LIFE as Medicine are blessed to have enjoyed an abundant and fruitful time as we reflect on our work protecting Mother Earth and our Sacred Water, challenging systems of oppression and healing our minds, bodies and lives together in community.
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Later in the Fall we will be offering two land-centered gatherings in Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia. We will have another opportunity to gather again
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by the Fire, to honour Sacred Water and Land through Song, Ceremony, and creative exploration. We’ll gather in community and engage with natural art materials respectfully gathered from Earth Mother. These expressive arts experiences are designed to nourish the Heart, Body, Mind, and Spirit.
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Thanks to the generous support of the Sixties Scoop Foundation, registration is offered at no cost to all Sixties Scoop survivors, their families (and chosen family), and descendants.
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As always, we hope to see you there.
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Well.Coming Sustain.Ability:
Publishing All Healing Heals All
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Flowing with.in Ancestral reMatriated Spiritual Knowings
We acKnowledge and Embrace
emBodied InterDependent Essences of All Our Relations:
AKA Our Heart.Core WellBeingNess.
All Beings are Creative.
Talented. and Contributing Together.
Collaboratively. Communally.
We Know more.
Grow more.
TransForm more.
We Know: All Healing Heals All.
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LIFE as Medicine: All Healing Heals All is almost ready for publication!
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We are calling on Community to Support us with the self-publishing process.
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This book invites All into Circle: First Nations, Métis, Inuit, Ally, Creative and Expressive Arts Therapists, Social Workers, Artists, Activists and Community Workers from across Turtle Island.
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We are envisioning and enActing, reviving and promoting, Collaborative Relational Healing Arts with Indigenous Peoples, our Families, our Communities, and our Allies.
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We aim to have this transformative work published as an e-book by Fall Equinox 2025.
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Upcoming Workshops
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Registration for the Drum Making workshop is now full. This Drum Making experience has been generously funded by the Atlantic Policy Congress in collaboration with
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LIFE as Medicine and the Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation.
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Thank you to everyone who registered for the event.
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Me As Tree: We As Forest
Upcoming Fall Gathering
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Basket Weaving Workshop
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Saturday 26 July, we gathered in Sipekne'katik (Shubenacadie) for a Basket Weaving workshop facilitated by Ashley Sanipass a Mi'kmaq artist and knowledge keeper.
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The day was spent swapping stories and sharing delicious wholesome food as we learned the ancient art of basket weaving in community.
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We wish to extend our gratitude to the National Sixties Scoop Foundation for supporting LIFE as Medicine to deliver this healing workshop.
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People
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On May 5th, GrandMother Darlene Gilbert led a powerful march from Peace and Friendship Park to the Rotunda in the Public Gardens, standing in Ceremony and Resistance for our Stolen Sisters. We walked to honour the lives of those taken by violence—those who never made it home, and those who still live in the shadow of fear. As Red Dresses moved with the wind along Spring Garden Road, we raised our drums and voices in song and sorrow, calling out the names and spirits of the missing and murdered. This is a mourning for our kin, and a call to dismantle the colonial systems that continue to neglect and endanger
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Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People.
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Me As Tree: We as Forest Gathering
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We were lucky enough to gather and have time away on the land reconnecting with source energy as we welcomed in our Ancestors, as we sang, prayed, and spent time reconnecting with the magical nature of nature and connection to each other and to the Ancient Ones.
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ReMatriating Mother Earth
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Following on from Me As Tree:We as Forest we gathered again to explore our connection to Earth Mama. We journeyed through the four doors in Ceremony and reverence guided by our powerful GrandMothers in Spirit and Song.
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The weather was challenging and we honour with deep gratitude our Sacred Fire Keepers who kept our Flame burning through the toughest of conditions.
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All of our events are free of charge to Sixties Scoop Survivors, Descendants, Families (and chosen Families) and support people through a generous grant from the Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation.
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