10/01/2025
It’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 🧡
Intergenerational mental health is a primary focus of Everbloom, where parents and children can both be nurtured, valued and honoured. Caring for the parent is just as important as caring for the child… holding space for both. It’s that village we’re collectively missing.
Although I was raised as a settler, my family’s indigenous ancestry is only 3 generations before me. Intergenerational trauma runs deep, but so does intergenerational wisdom, and intergenerational healing.
I’ve always had an eye for the big picture, zooming out to look beyond the current moment, to better understand the context that has shaped our lives. When I learned about the Seventh Generation principle, it made so much sense for me.
The Seventh Generation principle is an Indigenous concept that centre’s our interconnectedness, interdependence, social responsibility and encourages sustainability in all choices, for the next seven generations.
This aligns so deeply with how I view mental health… Nurture the caregivers, and we nurture the child. Enrich the environment, and we enrich the families.
That’s why I chose the name Everbloom. The flowers will bloom when the roots are nurtured, when the environment is rich. And when the flowers bloom, they produce seeds that will land on that rich soil, where they can grow roots of their own. Nurture the roots and you have an everblooming garden for many generations…
This Indigenous teaching has carried deep meaning for me throughout my career. At the very same time, I’m always learning, always growing, and always reflecting 🌿
