In 2009, she travelled to Nicaragua to build a school, then returned again in 2011 to build another and expand the project. Knott, who holds a bachelor’s degree in social work, feels that “life is about living for others.” Despite her own struggles, however, she has dedicated herself to helping those in need. She writes that she had “always been aware of a darkness that lurks within addiction… dark thing” that wanted to consume her.
But sobriety did not come easy for Knott. Within the covers of this newly released paperback edition published by the University of Regina Press, Knott seamlessly weaves together memories from her past with the events, both personal and familial, that led to her addiction and eventual sobriety. A reclamation of an Indigenous identity that had, for too long, been suppressed by shame, sexual violence, and intergenerational trauma. A return to family, culture, tradition, and language. “Healing yourself is the ultimate act of resistance… of remembering who we are as Indigenous peoples.” This book is a coming home story. Is there any other act more revolutionary than healing? No, not for Helen Knott, debut author of In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience. In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience
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