{"id":627,"date":"2026-05-14T08:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/counsellingconcepts.ca\/decolonizing-health-healing-care\/?page_id=627"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:58:17","slug":"west-door","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/counsellingconcepts.ca\/decolonizing-health-healing-care\/west-door\/","title":{"rendered":"West Door"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chapter 5.6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

West Door Response.Abilities: Respectfully and Reciprocally Relating<\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By Fyre Jean Graveline<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book: Decolonizing Health, Healing, and Care<\/a>
Published: June 1, 2025
Publisher: Counselling Concepts<\/a>
Chapter DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.71446\/lk85375993<\/a>
Book ISBN: 978-0-9738085-6-8
Format: ePub
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This is the third of four doorways encountered as Fyre Jean Graveline invites readers to journey together aRound Sacred Medicine Wheel. In the Western Doorway, through a deeper Connection with Water, We Accept with Loving Compassion what is in our Hearts. We give Attention to Flow of Emotions throughout our Bodies. We Share or reLease Feelings with a Water Blessing, or through watery heARTs: Clay or Paint, Movement or Sound, or Word Flow. The West Door opens Response.Abilities for Respectfully and Reciprocally Relating: (a) We Emphasize InterDependence, working and playing and praying Collectively and SustainAbly to reStory Relationality through heARTs; (b) We Remember Ancestral Wisdom of SelfDetermination: no Being is Expert in Life Journeys of our Relatives; (c) We Embrace Resistance as a Sacred Ancestral Response.Ability and an Expression of TransFormational Resiliency; (d) We Avoid Interruptions, Questions and Interpretations and continuously reAssess Assessment and DiagNosis; (e) We Respect MultiLayered Gifts of Silence: Words on No Words; (f) We Work and Play and Pray to continuously Become more TrustWorthy Relatives; (g) We are Committed to enActing Politics of InterSectionality and Inclusion; and (h) We AcKnowledge and Appreciate All Genders and Gender Fluidity as having Worth and Integrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Fyre Jean Graveline<\/em><\/strong> (she\/her; they\/them), PhD, RSW, RCAT, is a two-spirit resilient survivor and a M\u00e9tis 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<\/em> (Fernwood, 1998) and Healing Wounded Hearts<\/em> (Fernwood, 2005). Still emerging is her newest book LIFE as Medicine: All Healing Heals All<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Graveline, F. J. (2025). West door response.Abilities: Respectfully and reciprocally relating. In S. Collins and M. Jay (Eds.), Decolonizing health, healing, and care: Embodying culturally responsive and socially just counselling<\/em> (Chapter 5.6). Counselling Concepts. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.71446\/lk85375993<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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