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How to claim healing resources while honoring family silence

My therapist suggested I apply for a trauma recovery fund for descendants of residential school survivors, but accessing it means documenting family pain that my father never wanted to talk about.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The path to repair sometimes requires excavating precisely what previous generations protected by burying.

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