Âstepayiw

•Backed with smoked hide, Charlotte cut 11/0 opal beads, 24K gold plated accent beads, 18k gold fill necklace chain.• “Âstepayiw” - becoming healed. This pendant took a long time to even design. I threw away I don’t know how many sketches. But once I found something that worked, it flowed. I beaded this all in one marathon beading session, working late into the night. My shoulders were on fire when I was done. I haven’t really shared this part of my journey publicly, but I suffer from really debilitating panic attacks. They aren’t just moments of distress; they completely wipe me out and, at times, have taken days for me to recover from. Did you know that over 40 percent of people will have a panic attack at least once in their life? And as much as one in five people suffer from an anxiety disorder. Those rates are much higher among Indigenous people because of intergenerational trauma from community wounds such as residential/boarding schools and the sixties scoop, as well as an histo