How to Break an Ancestral Curse

Integrating Shadow, Using Plant Medicine, and a forthcoming Book Club.

The first time I embarked on a cord-cutting ceremony, I had just returned from Paris. I was living on a small island, in my brother’s octagon-shaped home, on the land where we were raised. The property was steeped in memory — holding as much magic as it did the weight of passing time. I’ve always been amazed at how land can carry stories. Its history wh…