038: Darla Antoine on Healing Your Spirit and Finding Yourself Through Food, Cultural Discovery, and Diving Deep Into Your Own Ancestry

What if discovering your past could help you and your family heal together?Spiritual worker, ancestral activist, and coach of the Sacred Domestic Arts complete with an MA in Intercultural Communication, Darla Antoine answers this deep spiritual question and more in this wonderfully open and spiritually enlightening conversation!Darla grew up as an "other' and through her own lived experiences as a mixed race woman faced with generational oppression by dominant culture and society, Darla yearned to understand the depth of her ancestral wounds created by conflict, shame, and cultural oppression in order to better understand and heal herself.She is basically a spiritual healing badass who wants to help people of all different backgrounds connect with their ancestors in safe and healing ways that will help to heal your spiritual conflicts, those of your family, and even those of your ancestors in order to restore pride in the beauty of being who you truly are. AND SHE DOES IT THROUGH FOOD, YOU GUYS! Grab your snacks and buckle up, sister!My ThoughtsJust like I have my stories from childhood, my mom has her own (not for me to tell, though) and her mother and her mother and so on and so on. It just makes so much sense that the wounds of the past are carried down through the generations...though we don't really talk about it or even think about it too much because we're stuck in our own heads...tired from battling our own demons let alone those who've come before us.I always wonder what my daughter will carry from me and what will remain unhealed? How much untangling will I be able to do in my lifetime?The work is never done...that's for sure.Are you ready to go there?_____DARLA ANTOINE is a spiritual worker, ancestral activist, coach, practitioner of the sacred domestic arts, mother and accidental homesteader in the high mountains of Costa Rica. Darla helps mixed-race and mixed-culture seekers discover the medicine, blessings and power in their ancestral spiritual lineages. She does this by combining her spiritual work with her experience as a mixed-race woman and expat and her master's degree in Intercultural Communication.Connect with DarlaWebsite | Instagram_____For show notes including how to learn more about the delightful, Darla Antoine, head over to jenvertanen.com/goingthere38 and if there’s one thing I want you to remember ever it’s this…You were born to raise hell, not live in it.I believe in you so effing much and I’m here if you ever need an emotional sidekick to help you through tough times.Until next time…love you already,_____Love the sorts of fly-on-the-wall intimate conversations I’m hosting on Going There? It would mean the WORLD if you leave a rating/review on iTunes/Apple Podcasts and share with folks most needing these messages of hope, resilience, healing, and yes…laughter at some of the darker sides to life.Website: www.jenvertanen.comInstagram: www.instagram.com/jenvertanenMy Fave Really Hard Questions: jenvertanen.com/really-hard-questions/ (because you guys know how much I love digging deeper!)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.