North Door

Abstract

This is the last of four doorways encountered as Fyre Jean Graveline invites readers to journey together aRound Sacred Medicine Wheel. In the Northern Doorway, We enLiven our Body, All physical Senses through Connection to Earth Mother: going Out in.to Natural World, and Know.ticing more Attentively All We See, Hear, Taste, Smell, Touch, and Feel. We enCounter Trees, Skies, Birds, Insects, Sun, Moon, Stars, Animal Relations, Crystals, Stones, Food, Water, Plants, Gardens, Human Relations, our Bodies in Fuller, more Sensory ways. We acKnowledge We All have a Place in our Fragile, and Resilient Shared Ecology; We express Love and Gratitude for All our Relations. The North Door invites Response.Abilities for In.Spiring and Reweaving Ecological Reconnections: (a) We practice Earthing—Touching Bare Feet, Hands, and Bodies to Earth Mother, to Natural Materials, to Commune with Her Energies; (b) We reConnect with Earth Mother and All Our Relations in Responsive, Response.Able, RespectFull, and Reciprocal Ways; (c) We are Open to Collective Wisdom of All Beings, All Our Relations: Included and Excluded, VoiceFull and Silenced, in Sessions, Circles, and Gatherings; (d) We are Present at Events, Ceremonies, Celebrations, and Protests: We Show Up and Stand Up for and with Our Earth Mother, Together; and (e) We Speak of his.Storical and ongoing InterWeave of Violence against Indigenous Peoples, Violence against Women, and Violations against Earth Mother.

Author

Fyre Jean Graveline (she/her; they/them), PhD, RSW, RCAT, is a two-spirit resilient survivor and a Métis Grandmother, educator, author, healer, artist, and activist or heARTiviist. She/they work, play, and pray to create sustainable expressive arts healing practices through an Indigenous, feminist, ecoarts-based lens, emphasizing walking lightly and lovingly on Mother Earth. She taught and practiced in education and social work for over forty years. She is the author of Circle Works: Transforming Eurocentric Consciousness (Fernwood, 1998) and Healing Wounded Hearts (Fernwood, 2005). Still emerging is her newest book LIFE as Medicine: All Healing Heals All.

Citation

Graveline, F. J. (2025). North door response.Abilities for in.Spiring and reweaving ecological reconnections. In S. Collins and M. Jay (Eds.), Decolonizing health, healing, and care: Embodying culturally responsive and socially just counselling (Chapter 7.3). Counselling Concepts. https://doi.org/10.71446/ma09458842