Interview on A Wild New Work

Molly and I had the chance to have a conversation with Megan Leatherman of A Wild New Work…

We got to talk about ancestors, myth, connection with the land, and why we must learn to regulate our nervous systems before we start processing ancestral trauma. It was a powerful conversation with a couple friends who I just love chatting with. I have shared a couple highights below.

I hope you enjoy it.

“Myth speaks to us in a way that can really circumvent our defenses. It helps get us into a state of mind into - just like dreams - this other place in our psyche where there are openings, and being in that place can also be another portal to hearing and listening to ancestors.”

— Molly Klekamp

"There's a lot that we've inherited from our ancestors... Most of us, if not all, have inherited trauma through our family lines, and that can be big, big things, big traumas, but also little ones that happen to us every day, some sort of wounding…something that happens to us internally, and then it often makes us less flexible, more rigid, more feeling like we have to protect ourselves, and that's so normal in our culture today.”

— Megan Leatherman

“ The truth is that we are already connected to our ancestors…At some point we developed this lie about disconnection. That was a survival strategy, too. We're just now at this place in the evolution of consciousness where that lie no longer serves us. And it's time. It's time. But the only way to do it is to continually peek under the veil by being really present with ourselves.”

— Magda Permut