Intergenerational Healing is Ancestral Healing is Decolonization is Activism

Intergenerational Healing is Ancestral Healing is Decolonization work is Activism

One of the most radical forms of activism is when we dare to look at ourselves through the eyes of truth and not through the eyes of other. When we strip away the layers of how we have been taught to view the world and ourselves and step into the space of viewing it/us as it truly is we begin the journey. 

I remember the first time I consciously tapped into my own ancestral trauma. I looked down at my body and it was my grandmothers body. It was also the first time I experienced a psychedelic experience with no substances. I saw the stories that lived within her body, I saw the red threads that began to weave generations back and forward making their way into my bloodstream. I didn’t set out to do this work, this work found me, or should I say every benevolent ancestor came together to lead me to this work. They knew what it would cause, they knew the pain of processing but they knew the benefit to future and previous generations. One by one I unweave the threads that span wombs, bloodlines, births, deaths, and lifetimes to get back to the root. Healing work is rootwork. We start at source, we address what’s underneath the surface to heal in the same way you wouldn’t expect rotted roots to bloom fresh flowers. 

Over the years this journey has deepened. One ancestor led to another led to another, and all of their patterns followed suit. These days my work spans generations, timelines, + realms and I have an army of benevolent beings that walk behind me, in front of me, and above me. They circle me when I need to be protected, they stand close behind me when I need to walk the void. Their work is sometimes subtle and all at once. They teach me rituals that have been lost across time and lead me to teachers that will confirm this as real. It is truly amazing the capacity of nurture and teaching we have with those that can travel between worlds. Sometimes I travel with them, but lately and to my hesitant approval they’ve encouraged me to stay on earth.

The path to becoming a good ancestor is a path of breaking chains, voicing the quieted, and showing up fully. I am the living embodiment of generations of love, lust, violence, colonization, assimilation, and most of all survival. These words are our words, this body our body, this story our story. For the first time in a long time, I have the privilege to tell it without fear. Who am I to get in the way? 

A reminder that I’m leading River Sessions, a somatic healing journey through movement, breath, and sound to process deep watery emotion 7/7 at 7pm on Zoom with @mamaswellnessjoint 🐚 View the Events page to RSVP. Free for BIPOC, $22 for everyone else 

Also announcing a deep dive series to tap into ancestral remembrance + Intergenerational healing ✨ soon ✨