Four years ago, Iva Geddes-McNabb would take walks to pray and cry for those she had lost. Geddes-McNabb's son Lionel died from a heart attack in 2013, when he was 39 years old.
She lost her husband to cancer a few months later. Then in 2016 she lost Matthew, a grandson she raised who ran marathons, to stomach cancer at the age of 26.
Geddes-McNabb, now 76, said she didn't know how to grieve so many deaths, but she did know her family wouldn't want her to be sad.
She decided to find something that would help her. She tried a few workout classes, but felt they weren't for her. Then one day in 2019 she tried out a kettlebell kickboxing class happening in the next community over, Daystar First Nation.
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