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Cassadore has spoken about struggling with addiction and mental health crises in her own life, including suicide attempts, prior to beginning her career as a food educator. She notes that many of the tribal youth she works with have similarly experienced trauma, saying, "I was sexually assaulted before I even attended kindergarten. This is something we never will talk about. Many on the rez have gone through this.” Cassadore has stated that foraging helped her heal. In a seminar on the
Western Apache Diet Project, she said, "I have been drug-free since 2002. And reconnecting with myself and my identity was done through harvesting. And harvesting some of these food in the locations that were my ancestors are from, the clan maps of where some of these places we’ve gone to and reconnecting with who I am and it rooted me back to where I came from. It gave me a sense of purpose."
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Limited access to foods with high nutritional content and sedentary lifestyles are linked to health problems in the
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Cassadore has been a food educator for the past 25 years, launching a project called the
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