Awakening Your Roots with the Medicine of Nature

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Many of us feel disconnected from our family stories and traditions, which can create a sense of loss of home and belonging. Pacha philosopher and ecopsychologist Lorena Saavedra Smith believes reconciling with our ancestors’ traditions and weaving ourselves back into our history is a therapeutic endeavor that deserves to be embarked upon with respect and authenticity. While circumstances may have forced this detachment, Lorena says we can forge a new path towards ancestral connection through communing with the natural world. “Ancestral knowledge, at its core,” says Lorena, “has communal threads linked to Nature. All of us can come back to these basic roots.”

Join Lorena for a conversation exploring belonging through the medicine of nature, cultural connection, and ancestral wisdom. Drawing from her life experience and latest book, Awaken Your Roots, Lorena discusses how to reclaim your agency and purpose—especially from cultural forces that have caused you to feel deficient, inadequate, and invisible. Lorena knows this path, as her personal wounds related to war, financial hardship, and intergenerational trauma have become portals through which she reconnected to her own medicine. With a focus on ancestral wisdom and our relationship with nature, she offers a pathway to move through anxiety to rediscover your inner wisdom.

Lorena shares how to access tools to interweave your dreams with your deep roots. By cultivating personal medicine and sharing it with others, we can all live the life we deserve.

Lorena Saavedra Smith is a pacha philosopher and ecopsychologist. Originally from Perú and replanted to the US, Lorena is a lifelong storyteller and keeper of Andean ancestral wisdom and medicine. With more than two decades of experience in the wellness industry, Lorena draws on a multidisciplinary background to help others find healing through inner wisdom and the healing powers of nature. She’s a proud US Navy veteran spouse living in the Washington, DC, area. Visit lorenasaavedrasmith.com to learn more about Lorena.

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