Shame to Shine : From Wreckage to Rise From Domestic Violence Navajo Sydney begins to feel ashamed

Sydney begins to feel ashamed and to regret her past behaviour

beauty and balance

Education and technical training too often gave way to the drudgery of doing the chores necessary to make the schools self-sustaining

This is a poetry collection written during a period of trauma while the author was working as a Counsel to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in 2017

Shame to Shine : From Wreckage to Rise From Domestic Violence Navajo Sydney begins to feel ashamedShame to Shine : The Wreckage & Rise from Domestic Violence is written and illustrated by Cher Obediah, Mohawk and Ojibwe, and edited by Jaclyn Piudik. Cover design by Joel Martin. The truth is I lied to protect my partner. Shame to Shine is my diary in poetry, my voice unmuted from the first kiss through the shame and back again to live the life my spirit seeks. Leaving sounds simple but Initimate Partner Violence isnt logical, its psychological and