Mind over matter : hard-won battles on the road to hope / Jordin Tootoo, with Stephen Brunt.
Publication details: [Toronto] : Viking, 2022.Description: 197 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780735242265 (hardcover)
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Having inspired millions when he first broke into the league, Tootoo continued to influence people throughout his career - not only through his very public triumph over alcoholism, but also his natural charisma. And now, years after hanging up his skates, he is more committed to doing things the right way and speaking about it to others, whether it's corporate executives or Indigenous youth. But the news of unmarked graves on the grounds of residential schools brought back to life many of the demons that had haunted his family. In a moment of realization that left him rattled and saddened, Tootoo fit the pieces together. The years that were never spoken of. The heavy drinking. The all too predictable violence. His father was a survivor, marked by what he had survived. And, Tootoo realizes, his community is marked in the same way. Its joy too often sapped away by alcoholism, its youth all too often cut down by suicide -- as his brother had been. As he travels back to Nunavut to try to s.
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