My sister and I are both trying to reconnect with our grandmother's Indigenous traditions that our family lost through assimilation but we're approaching it very differently and sometimes I worry we're both just projecting our own needs onto practices we don't really understand. We want to honor our heritage together but keep getting into conflicts about authenticity and appropriation even within our own family.
More people experience this than they realize.
The attempt to restore severed spiritual roots reveals how cultural trauma creates uncertainty about what belongs to whom and what constitutes genuine reconnection versus wishful reconstruction.
“Where Are You with Norse and Germanic paganism?”
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