Bøger af Chyana Marie Sage

A poetic memoir as intricately woven as a dreamcatcher about overcoming the pain of generational trauma with the power of traditional healing.In her deeply affecting memoir, Soft as Bones, Chyana Marie Sage shares the pain of growing up with her father: a crack dealer who went to prison for molesting her older sister. She details the shame and guilt she carried for years after her family's trauma as she went from one dysfunctional relationship to another, from one illegal drug to another. In revisiting her family's history and weaving in the perspectives of her mother and sisters, Chyana examines the legacy of generational abuse, which began with her father's father, who was forcibly removed from his family by the residential schools and Sixties Scoops programs.Yet hers is also a story of hope, as it was the traditions of her people that saved her life. In candid, incisive, and delicate prose, Chyana braids personal narrative with Cree stories and ceremonies, all as a means of healing one small piece of the mosaic that makes up the dark past of colonialism shared by Indigenous people throughout Turtle Island.

Chyana Marie Sage draws on her experiences of intergenerational trauma as a young Canadian Indigenous woman, painting a world of raw emotion that pulls you into the viscerality of her poems and micro short stories.I Used to Love You, is the second book in her poetry trilogy, The Love Letters. This book is for those who are trying to navigate intimate relationships when they've experienced trauma, abuse, deception, and have felt their own delicacy when their trust has been broken at a core level.I Used to Love You, explores themes of codependency, love addiction, and toxicity-it is the middle section of a journey on discovering, nurturing, and forcefully embracing self love and respect.