Our task as European-ancestored people, seeing what's been hidden beyond our short-sighted view of history, and why healing isn't possible in the absence of love.

IN THE INTRO:

• Who gets to claim their ancestors?
• Healing broken lineages
• Cultural appropriation & reparations

IN THE INTERVIEW:

• How Lyla, raised to acknowledge only her Native American side, came to understand and honor her indigenous European ancestors
• What happens when people hate their ancestors (and therefore themselves)
• Making space for everyone's healing- permission to grieve all the ancestral traumas 
• Going way back in time to understand colonizer/oppressor actions
• Lyla's early experiences with sexual abuse, alcohol, and drugs and how they informed her perspective on restorative justice
• Pilgrimage to the Sacred Motherland of Europe- "These mountains may have lost their people, but that doesn't mean they don't need ceremony"
• Seeing through the thin wall of time that dominates our understanding of history & remembering that the vast majority of our ancestors lived before cultures and humans got broken
• Indigenous languages are the sound of the land speaking through the people
• Love is the only thing worth doing here
• Where do we go from here? It depends on where we came from

LINKS:

• Reclaiming our Indigenous European Roots by Lyla in Moon Magazine
• Lyla on Facebook
• Episode 27, "Anti-Racist Genealogical Research (For Everyone)" w/ Darla Antoine
• Episode 26, "Ancestral Reverence as Devotion to the Earth" w/ Daniel Foor

• My website MythicMedicine.love

• Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses)

• The Medicine Stories Facebook group

• Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz

• Mythic Medicine on Instagram

• Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)