Conquering Demons Through Spirit: A Journey To Mental Wellness With Aboriginal Spirituality
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This narrative life story is an exploration of a 50-year old Métis women’s 19-year healing\njourney. It focuses on the role Aboriginal spirituality plays in relation to three critical factors in\nher healing process: fostering a sense of belonging, awakening to Spirit and belief in a power\ngreater than oneself and nurturing creative, artistic approaches to the healing process. Naa noo\nshka sens diigo, Meehegun Doodem’s healing journey and addictions recovery, which began in\n1995 after a suicide attempt, is triangular in form. Typical Western medical and therapeutic\ninterventions were complemented by a 12-step program and Aboriginal spirituality, each\ncomponent representing an equally essential part of her journey to wellness. Drumming,\npowwows, spiritual ceremonies including sweat lodges, fasting and pipe ceremonies, continue to\nbe as important to her ongoing healing process as the support of a 12-step program and previous\ninterventions provided by psychologists, psychiatrists and medical doctors. For the past 24\nmonths, Naa noo shka sens has been living free of all prescribed medications and therapy\nsessions with medical professionals; however, she continues to participate in a 12-step program\nand actively engages in Aboriginal spiritual ceremonies and activities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".