My partner and I started this project to document my grandmother's Yoruba plant medicine knowledge before she passes, but we keep getting bogged down in whether we're being respectful versus academic versus practical and we've lost the joy we had when we first started gathering her stories. We used to laugh with her for hours and now our conversations feel stilted and careful and I think she can tell.
More people experience this than they realize.
Sacred work has become so heavy with responsibility that the lightness that made it meaningful has disappeared.
“Where Are You with African cosmologies and nature?”
Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.