This article is a prequel to ongoing research into DIY Healing Within Ancestral Lands. A project born of growing up in a family system that was not kind, welcoming or loving.
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"It is my hope that these words will serve as the beginning of an ongoing dialogue about what it means to live autoethnography."
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"In our latest chat, Patricia Leavy discusses the evolution of the self-coined social fiction genre and offers a sneak peek at her latest publication, Film Blue."
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"I have continued to explore the usefulness of various poetic forms as a mechanism for providing access to suppressed internal voices."
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