I had a vision that the ancestors told us to heal the world. When we heal ourselves, we also heal our ancestors, our grandmothers, our grandfathers and our children, when we heal ourselves, we also heal Mother Earth.
Grandmother Rita Pitka Blumenstein(1933-2021)
was a Yup’ik elder from Alaska,
a renowned traditional healer, and the first person ever certified
as a traditional doctor in the state.
She was also a founding member of the
International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.
“This quote inspires me in a very deep way, and continues to grow in my understanding of our connection to life and to the earth. We are deeply interwoven. We were separated long ago from feeling that connection to the earth. This healing is restoring that connection in new and deeper ways. For me taking the time to be quiet, and be still, and notice a tree, notice a flower is not separate from any other work. It’s always has to do with deep healing of all parts of my being.”
Anne Scott is the founder of Dream Weather Foundation
and author of Finding Home: Restoring the Sacred to Life –
Stories of Women in Homelessness & Transition
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