S3 Episode 14: Owning Your Story with Helen Knott, Author

Helen Knott is a Dane Zaa, Nehiyaw, Métis, and mixed Euro-descent woman from Prophet River First Nations, and lives in Fort St. John, British Columbia. Helen is a trauma survivor, an author, a poet, and has worked in social work and advocacy for over a decade. In 2016 Helen was one of sixteen global change makers featured by the Nobel Women's Initiative for being committed to ending gender-based violence and was selected as a 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author. Her debut memoir, In My Own Moccasins, was a national bestseller, longlisted for the BC Taylor Prize, and won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Indigenous Peoples' Publishing. In My Own Moccasins is a deeply personal and vulnerable account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. Becoming a Matriarch, her second memoir, is a #1 Best Seller on the Toronto Star's Canadian Non-Fiction list and #2 overall non-fiction list. Helen has learned to find happiness in simplicity because as she says, "When you’re stripped down to your most naked humble self - you learn to see the world new again. At first, it’s not always shiny - quite the opposite in fact - but eventually you learn to see the sparkle in the small things. And in no time, you become that sparkle and create magic wherever you go."

Connect with Helen:

Instagram - @helenknott05

Order Helen's Books:

In My Own Moccasins - www.amazon.com/My-Own-Moccasins-Resilience-Collection/dp/0889777314

Becoming A Matriarch - www.amazon.com/Becoming-Matriarch-Helen-Knott-ebook/dp/B0BZ3M9JHF

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