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Medicine Stories

52. Decolonizing the Mind: You Belong to Your Ancestors - Tamira Cousett

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Embodying the blessing of being a child of diverse lineages, being rooted first in our ancestral stories and second in our cultural narratives, embracing our inherent worth as we step into the work we came here to do, and so much more...

IN THE INTRO:

  • Imaginal remembering
  • How primal human posture has greatly diminished my pain
  • Gathering the stories of your elders

IN THE INTERVIEW:

  • Tamira’s childhood experiences with the unseen, and how that was (not) held in her family
  • We are accountable to our ancestors
  • The process of remembering and learning to be in daily, direct communication with those who hold the container for our lives
  • Being a bridge between our children and the ancestors- incorporating small ritual into our lives and sharing our peoples’ stories
  • Our children are the ancestors returning as the new faces of the lineage
  • The evolution of Tamira’s ancestral healing journey as a black woman in the south with both African and European ancestors
  • Seeing today’s -isms as rituals of disconnection that feed shame and hatred and anger, which further fuel racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc.
  • Remembering that black and white are not ancestral categories and stepping back to view the larger historical narratives of our people
  • The story of the harmonizing of two of Tamira’s lineages, one of West African descent and one of European- what was shown to her during the ceremony and how the healing changed her life (we cry)
  • Victimhood, blame, forgiveness, and how our redemption is tied into one another’s
  • Claiming first the identity of being a child of your ancestors before being anchored in the (very real and valid) identities the world assigns you
  • Ancestral connection banishes imposter syndrome- you belong with and to your people always, they’re holding the container of your life so that you can bring your medicine forward (and when we feel this belonging this we are much less likely to perpetuate cultural and personal harms)
  • Holding space for childrens’ grief, and the generations of unmetabolized grief wreaking havoc on our culture

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0:00.0

just knowing that my people are with me and that in the presence of my people no matter who I'm surrounded by physically

0:06.3

That it's impossible for me to be an imposter because they know who I am

0:10.7

Even when I don't know who I am, even when I'm questioning, they know. And so tapping in and

0:16.1

being in connection with them is a way of remembering who I am and what the work is that I'm bringing forward.

0:25.0

Hello friends and welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast where we are taking a soul nourishing

0:37.5

audio journey through the ethers of the interconnected internet following the luminous guiding light that reminds us that

0:48.8

story is medicine, magic is real, and healing is open-ended and endless. I'm Amber Magnolia Hill. Today

0:58.5

sharing my interview with Tamira, Kousette, we talk about the process of remembering and learning to be in daily direct communication

1:08.9

with those who hold the container for our lives, aka the ancestors, embodying the blessings of diverse

1:17.5

lineages, the evolution of Tamira's ancestral healing journey as a black woman in the South with both African and European

1:25.9

ancestors, and ancestral connection and how it banishes imposter syndrome, because you belong with and to your people always and a

1:38.8

lot lot lot more we talk about today. But first some listener feedback from the last few

1:46.7

episodes. It's so so wonderful hearing from you all and knowing how these interviews touch people and

1:56.8

change their lives. So the most recent episode number 51 maternal mammalian

2:02.3

ecstasy the ancient hormonal blueprint for optimal birth and bonding with Sarah Buckley got such a beautiful response.

2:11.0

Jupiter Jones on Patreon wrote,

2:14.0

I've heard how painful and stressful birth is for a woman,

2:19.0

particularly since I myself was the result of a difficult pregnancy and C section.

2:24.0

But this episode made me understand how inherently equipped our bodies are for this wild and profound experience,

2:31.0

reorienting my frame of reference to view birth as a joyful and

2:35.2

potentially pleasurable experience has made me really look forward to going

2:39.5

through that process someday. I'll also never forget no padding no padding no chatting and

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