Many of us carry invisible threads from the past. Patterns of behaviour, emotional reactions, relationship dynamics, and even physical or health tendencies can echo through generations. These ...
The commercialization of self-care has created a distance between people and authentic healing traditions. Yet within African and Caribbean cultures lie centuries-old practices that offer profound ...
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct errors regarding the renting of the unit out of which MiraSoul operates, the ownership of their families’ earlier businesses and the location and ...
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Healing Ancestral Wounds

Echoing into the future to affect subsequent generations, our ancestors’ lives shape us in insidious ways. Here, we explore how to heal our ancestral wounds. The sins of the fathers are visited on ...
Experiences from one’s childhood and their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods build on each other to create a unique perspective. This is especially true of traumatic experiences. Traumatic ...
A profound and searching exploration of the herbs and land-based medicines of Lebanon and Cana'an--a vital invitation to re-member our roots and deepen relationship with the lands where we live in ...
Panquetzani is an ancestral healer and lives in Long Beach. This is an edited transcript of her interview with a member of the editorial board. I didn’t know that I wanted to be a healer. I grew up ...
Sixteen years ago, Jen West's life changed forever. She was at a family wedding reception when her mother, 48, was dancing and suddenly collapsed from cardiac arrest. From that moment on, West became ...
The "Soultry Sisters" will host their third annual Summer Soulstice celebration this weekend in Carlsbad, a health and wellness festival by and for queer people of color. In Carlsbad’s New Village ...
We’re joined today by the author of a book that ties cultural survival to earth-based knowledge. In The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai, Lebanese ...