Oh Louise, I love this! 🤗💖 Such a beautiful reflection, and it means a great deal to me to witness your relationship with your ancestors. This work is at the very heart of my life, and I feel such a strong resonance with what you’ve shared here, especially the image of being like “a peanut without a shell.” Oh my gosh, that really hit home. That metaphor carries so much truth. I’ve experienced again and again how reweaving relationship with the ancestors shifts everything: our sense of belonging, our orientation to death, our way of being in community. It’s not about nostalgia or idealizing the past, but about remembering the threads of sacred reciprocity and responsibility that many of our lineages held before they were broken. I’m so grateful to be walking alongside you as you open to this ancient, living connection.
Thank you so much for your kind words Jenna, I immediately thought of you when I watched this programme as it just made so much sense. What struck me the most is that they don't have to question or struggle or fight with what they believe in, it just is because thats the way its always been. We can understand how we can get so lost without this connection so much better. The relationship become something else when we go to those depths. xx
Ancestors, spirit guides - I know they are always with me, whether I'm tuned into them or not. I'm always touched by how my ancestors show and teach me so much! And what that takes is me bringing a focused intention to be with them. Which has also been the challenge as of late.
Another observation is that in our western culture we are starved of this connection. Death is feared, and the dying are tucked away, hidden in nursing homes and the like. If we can't connect to death, how can we truly connect with our ancestors?
Completely agree Julie and I've never really made that connection between how we view death and our ancestors before. It becomes clear when you see how other cultures look after both with such care and compassion. I am definitely still learning so much from them and like you say they are always there.
Such an interesting observation about ancestors. It reminds me that there used to be a time where one really had a village of family and friends as part of their every day life and community and how in our modern age, that has been lost for the most part ✨
I agree Mackenzie, it gave me so much to think about as those community values are very much an integral part of every day life for those people who I guess it's not a choice for. They put community first and foremost and we have definitely lost elements of that. xx
Oh Louise, I love this! 🤗💖 Such a beautiful reflection, and it means a great deal to me to witness your relationship with your ancestors. This work is at the very heart of my life, and I feel such a strong resonance with what you’ve shared here, especially the image of being like “a peanut without a shell.” Oh my gosh, that really hit home. That metaphor carries so much truth. I’ve experienced again and again how reweaving relationship with the ancestors shifts everything: our sense of belonging, our orientation to death, our way of being in community. It’s not about nostalgia or idealizing the past, but about remembering the threads of sacred reciprocity and responsibility that many of our lineages held before they were broken. I’m so grateful to be walking alongside you as you open to this ancient, living connection.
Thank you so much for your kind words Jenna, I immediately thought of you when I watched this programme as it just made so much sense. What struck me the most is that they don't have to question or struggle or fight with what they believe in, it just is because thats the way its always been. We can understand how we can get so lost without this connection so much better. The relationship become something else when we go to those depths. xx
Ancestors, spirit guides - I know they are always with me, whether I'm tuned into them or not. I'm always touched by how my ancestors show and teach me so much! And what that takes is me bringing a focused intention to be with them. Which has also been the challenge as of late.
Another observation is that in our western culture we are starved of this connection. Death is feared, and the dying are tucked away, hidden in nursing homes and the like. If we can't connect to death, how can we truly connect with our ancestors?
Completely agree Julie and I've never really made that connection between how we view death and our ancestors before. It becomes clear when you see how other cultures look after both with such care and compassion. I am definitely still learning so much from them and like you say they are always there.
Such an interesting observation about ancestors. It reminds me that there used to be a time where one really had a village of family and friends as part of their every day life and community and how in our modern age, that has been lost for the most part ✨
I agree Mackenzie, it gave me so much to think about as those community values are very much an integral part of every day life for those people who I guess it's not a choice for. They put community first and foremost and we have definitely lost elements of that. xx