Content Note: This episode includes sensitive conversations surrounding Indigenous history, the Albuquerque Indian School, Native American boarding schools, forced assimilation, intergenerational trauma, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP).
Please honor yourself and your capacity to receive as you listen. Some of these stories carry profound grief, and I encourage you to move through this conversation with care and compassion.
What happens when you begin uncovering the stories that shaped you, including the ones that began generations before you were born?
In this deeply personal episode of Jessica Meils the Podcast, I’m sharing another layer of my becoming. A journey through identity, ancestry, inherited beliefs, and the parts of ourselves we’ve learned to hide in order to belong.
We explore the connection between ancestral healing, generational trauma, epigenetics, and the ways our family histories continue to influence how we see ourselves, use our voices, and move through the world.
I’m also opening a conversation about my Indigenous ancestry, the history of the Albuquerque Indian School, and the broader legacy of Native American boarding schools, where generations of Indigenous children experienced forced assimilation, separation from family, and the suppression of their languages and cultural identities.
We also bring awareness to the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and People (MMIW/MMIP), honoring the lives, families, and communities whose stories deserve to be heard and remembered.
These histories are deeply human. They carry grief, resilience, survival, and stories that deserve space.
Through my own healing journey, I’ve come to recognize that becoming isn’t always about discovering something new. Sometimes it’s about remembering, reclaiming, and giving voice to the parts of ourselves and our histories that have been hidden.
In this episode, we explore:
- Identity, belonging, and the stories we inherit
- Indigenous ancestry, cultural identity, and reclamation
- The Albuquerque Indian School and the history of Native American boarding schools
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and People (MMIW/MMIP)
- Ancestral healing, generational trauma, and inherited patterns
- Epigenetics and how experiences across generations may influence our lives
- The relationship between silence, survival, self-expression, and belonging
- Reclaiming your voice and honoring the stories that came before you
- How intuition, awareness, and self-trust support the journey of becoming
An invitation to reflect:
What parts of your story have you been carrying that may have begun long before you?
What parts of yourself have you learned to silence in order to belong?
And what might become possible when you begin giving those parts of yourself permission to be seen, heard, and honored?
This is part of the heart of Rooted & Rising.
Rooting into who we are. Honoring where we’ve come from. Becoming aware of what we’ve inherited, what we choose to carry forward, and what we’re ready to transform.
Root deeply. Rise authentically. Trust yourself along the way.
Continue the journey with me
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Topics: Ancestral healing, Indigenous identity, Albuquerque Indian School, Native American boarding schools, Missing and Murdered Indigenous People, MMIW, MMIP, generational trauma, epigenetics, cultural reclamation, Indigenous history, intuitive healing, belonging, self-trust, ancestral wounds, reclaiming your voice, Rooted & Rising.
