Healing Disconnection

by | Jun 27, 2025 | Medicine Woman, Nature Connection, Uncategorized


A Call to Those Who’ve Forgotten Their Earth Traditions

There is a wound many carry quietly—a wound of disconnection. Disconnection from the land. From ancestral languages. From story, song, ceremony, and soul. From the old ways that once whispered through the trees and danced in the firelight.

Colonization did not just take from others. It took from us, too—from those of European descent—though many of us are only now waking to the grief of that loss. Our ancestors once lived close to the land. They knew the herbs by name, dreamt with the stars, told stories to remember who they were.

But that thread was cut. Burned. Shamed. Witch trials, forced conversions, migration, industrialization, capitalism—all conspired to sever our connection to the animistic heart of our cultures.

And in that void, in that hunger for meaning and context, many of us reached outward—grasping at the sacred traditions of others, mistaking appropriation for homecoming. But the truth is: we are not rootless. We are simply uprooted.

Reindigenizing is Not Copying—It is Remembering.
To reindigenize is not to imitate the sacred ways of others. It is to turn inward and backward, toward our own ancestral rivers. No matter what your 23andMe says, if you look back far enough, you will find earth-based wisdom in your lineage—medicine songs, solstice fires, sacred wells, folk healing, stories woven with stars and stones.

But first, we must be brave enough to grieve.

Grieve the loss of our motherlands.
Grieve the stories that were erased.
Grieve the grandmother’s wisdom drowned in fire and silence.
Grieve what happens to a people who forget they are part of the Earth.

From Grief Comes Imagination. From Imagination, Ceremony.
Ceremony doesn’t need to be borrowed. It is born from observation, relationship, and imagination. Watch the land. Feel its moods. Listen for its songs. Conjure it’s traditions, let your dreams show you hoe the land wants to be honored. Every ecosystem will show you how it wants to be honored.

1.Honor your creative spirit. Appropriation is a lack of trust in our creativity. It is forgetfulness in disguise.
Ceremony, when rooted, is art. Art in conversation with place.

2.Begin With These Anchors:
Turn to your ancestors—even the troubled ones. There are treasures buried in those bloodlines.

3. Acknowledge your cultural wounds: Create space for grief—your grief, collective grief, ancestral grief. Let it teach you what has been lost, and what longs to be found.

3. Ask, listen, and be humble—especially when in contact with Indigenous elders and traditions. Never assume. Always honor what is asked of you.

4. Humanize, don’t romanticize. Shamans are not props. Cultures are not costumes. Traditions are not commodities. Instead see that ceremony is deeply human, shared.

5. Find common ground. The directions, the circadian rhythms we all dance to, laughter, anger… these are universal languages. Capitalism and colonization as shared wounds, and work toward collective healing.

6.Give generously. Reciprocity is not optional. If your work benefits from sacred traditions, give back. Protect Indigenous land. Uplift native voices. Share profits.

7. Story. Don’t ask for credentials or pathology—ask for myth. Ask: What magic escaped your wound? And how will you share it?

8. Relearn the land you live on. Learn its names. Its stories. Its stewards.

9. Protect the lands where sacred medicines grow.

10. Share culture. Cook from your culture. Dance when invited. Put down the camera and pick up the drum.

11. Time Is Not Linear. Be Polychronic and Multigenerational.
Sit with elders. Play with children. Honor nonlinear time—time that spirals, that pulses, that deepens. Reindigenizing is not fast work. It is soul work, kin work, compost work.

12. Don’t fetishize the molecules and compounds. Feel the spirit they are unlocking in you, what is the collective good they are invoking in you through your own healing.

13. Connect to the wheel of the year.

14. Envision ways that modern science can serve ancient knowing.

15. Cosmovision: Who are we as a people here on earth? What is our mission? Why were we granted this rich planet to gorw our consciousness and what is our responsibility.

This isn’t about going back—it’s about going down and through. It’s about weaving the old threads into new tapestries with care, reverence, and responsibility.

So when the longing comes—and it will—don’t reach out. Reach down. Reach in. Reach back.

The roots are still there.
Waiting for your hands.
Waiting for your songs.
Waiting for the remembering.

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