Kathy Absolon King is an Anishinaabe kwe from Flying Post First Nation. Currently she is an Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of the Aboriginal Field of Study in the MSW Program at Wilfrid Laurier University. She balances her professional roles with who she is as a partner, mother, sister, aunty, daughter, friend, community helper, knowledge seeker, educator, researcher and writer. Her passion for wellness among her people has been one of the driving forces in her twenty years of work as an Indigenous wholistic social worker with practice background in child welfare, youth justice, adult mental health, community wellness and in education. Becoming an Indigenous scholar has been a consequence of her spirit guiding her to restore and re-story Indigenous peoples history, experiences and knowledge. In 2008 Kathy earned her PhD from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Writing, for Kathy, has been a journey. She is the author of a recently published “Kaandossiwin, How we come to know” (2011) and has authored articles and chapters in the area of Native mental health, Indigenous research, Indigenous social work practice, community healing and wellness and Indigenous knowledge.