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Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. Seeing their emotion only reminds you of your own weakness, which in fact is not really a weakness at all but a necessity to live an emotionally healthy life.” – In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott Summary and Thoughts ‘Get it together,’ you’ll mutter under your breath or in the back of your mind as other people weep. You learn to interpret their vulnerability as weakness and witnessing a sob might very well make your stomach churn.

You learn to have distaste for them, to ignore their presence, and to dislike when other people are emotional. “When you have a lifetime of emotions that you have been running from, it seems like once they catch up they will gang-beat you and leave you crippled in an alleyway.