In the wake of generations of trauma, healing requires more than conventional treatment—it demands honoring culture, spirit, and community. The Mending Broken Hearts program offers a culturally grounded, trauma-informed path to recovery for Native individuals, families, and communities seeking restoration of mind, body, and spirit.
What Is Mending Broken Hearts
For many Native peoples, the impacts of colonization, forced assimilation, boarding schools, suppression of language and ceremony, and intergenerational loss still ripple through families and communities. The legacy of these traumas often underlies substance use, mental-health challenges, and relational wounding. The curriculum known as Mending Broken Hearts (developed under the White Bison / Wellbriety Movement framework) explicitly addresses intergenerational trauma driven by cultural disconnection—loss of language, ceremony, identity, and community. By engaging healing practices that are culturally congruent, we offer a path not just of survival—but of thriving.
Our Approach
Holistic. Cultural. Evidence-Based.
- We combine traditional Native teachings (such as the Medicine Wheel, Four Directions, and Indigenous ceremony) with trauma-informed therapeutic modalities.
- In dedicated Mending Broken Hearts group sessions, participants explore the legacy of trauma: how cultural disruption, community rupture, and historic abuses have passed from one generation to the next.
- We incorporate cultural practices—smudging, talking circles, ceremony, elder teachings—to re-connect to identity, tradition, and resilience
- Our facilitators are trained and certified under the White Bison curriculum and are sensitive to Native worldviews, historical context, and healing from trauma.
Who Can It Help?
This program is designed for Native American / Alaska Native individuals (and family systems) who are ready to engage in healing from trauma—whether it be due to historical/cultural trauma, substance-use struggles, co-occurring mental-health concerns, or relational/family wounds. It’s especially valuable for those who recognize that the root of suffering may be more than just present-day symptoms, and are open to exploring deeper healing through culture and connection.
Program Components
- Intake & trauma assessment – We begin by respectfully assessing where you’ve been, what you’ve survived, and where you want to go.
- Mending Broken Hearts group curriculum – Guided sessions that address intergenerational trauma, reconnect to culture, re-ground in identity, and build coping skills for healing.
- Cultural/ceremonial integration – Traditional practices such as smudging, medicine wheel teaching, talking circles, ceremony with elders, and other indigenous-led modalities.
- Individual & group therapy – Trauma-informed therapeutic modalities (e.g., group process, psychoeducation, experiential work) combined with culturally respectful care.
- Family/Community healing – Healing is not only personal. We invite family systems, community links, and cultural reconnection to strengthen returning to healthy relationships and community life.
- Aftercare & community reintegration – Support for the transition back into community, ongoing connections, peer supports, and culturally responsive relapse prevention.
Why It Works
By addressing both the historical wounds and the current struggles, Mending Broken Hearts offers participants a way to reclaim identity, restore connection to culture and community, and open pathways toward meaningful recovery. Research and best-practice documents highlight that trauma-informed care for Native populations must integrate cultural worldviews, spirituality, and resilience-based approaches. SAMHSA+1 When individuals heal, families and communities also begin to heal.
Program Outcomes and Benefits
- Greater self-awareness and understanding of how trauma has affected you, your family, and your community.
- Restoration of cultural identity, sense of belonging, and spiritual connection.
- Improved skills to cope with triggers, shame, and trauma responses.
- Healthier relationships—with self, family, community—and renewed hope.
- A foundation for sustainable recovery, wellness, and community involvement.
How to Get Started
If you feel drawn to this path of healing, we’re honored to walk with you. Reach out to our admissions team and let’s have a confidential conversation about your needs, our program schedule, and how we can support you. Together, we’ll explore whether this is the right program for you or your loved one.
A Message of Hope
Begin Your Journey to Heal from Unresolved Grief and Intergenerational Trauma
Healing from grief, loss, and trauma is not something you have to do alone. Our program provides culturally based healing designed especially for Native communities—honoring traditional teachings and the wisdom of the ancestors. Through this sacred process, you can heal from unresolved grief, release the pain of historical and intergenerational trauma, and restore balance to your spirit, family, and community.
If you or someone you love is struggling with unresolved grief and intergenerational loss, now is the time to begin the grieving process in a supportive, culturally rooted environment. Experience a program that provides culturally based healing from grief loss and intergenerational trauma, helping you reconnect with your identity, culture, and strength.
Take the first step toward peace and renewal. Start healing from grief, loss, and intergenerational trauma today. Call us or reach out online to begin your path to wholeness.