Reclaiming Cultural Identity as a Healing Act

What is it that lives in the body that history never spoke about out loud? That's the question we carry into every episode.

Hello, my soul family.

I am Afi G.

Come right in.

Welcome back to I Am Afiji, What We Carry.

Okay, my soul family.

We have walked through some deep terrain together this season.

We talked about what we carry.

We went into the body.

We touched on the mother wound and the father wound.

And last time, we sat with the loneliness that can come upon us when we choose to heal and grow beyond what our families understand.

Today, though, the path turns.

Today we begin to move differently because after all that excavation, after all that shadow, there comes a moment where the work stops being only about what we release and it starts being about what we reclaim.

And there's almost nothing more healing for people like us than what I am about to say.

Reclaiming your cultural identity is not nostalgia.

It is not a costume.

It is a healing act.

It may be one of the most powerful acts of healing available to you.

So today, we come home to something older than the wound.

So if you're ready, you might want to stick around for a little bit, okay? So let's go there.

What is it that lives in the body that history never spoke about out loud? That's the question we carry into every episode.

Hello, my soul family.

I am Afi G.

Come right in.

Welcome back to I Am Afiji, What We Carry.

Okay, my soul family.

We have walked through some deep terrain together this season.

We talked about what we carry.

We went into the body.

We touched on the mother wound and the father wound.

And last time, we sat with the loneliness that can come upon us when we choose to heal and grow beyond what our families understand.

Today, though, the path turns.

Today we begin to move differently because after all that excavation, after all that shadow, there comes a moment where the work stops being only about what we release and it starts being about what we reclaim.

And there's almost nothing more healing for people like us than what I am about to say.

Reclaiming your cultural identity is not nostalgia.

It is not a costume.

It is a healing act.

It may be one of the most powerful acts of healing available to you.

So today, we come home to something older than the wound.

So if you're ready, you might want to stick around for a little bit, okay? So let's go there.