Although I was aware of my history I hadn't considered the impact on me until I read your piece. So, thank you for inspiration to delve deeper in to my spiritual DNA. 😊
Your essay resonates so much. I'm Irish Catholic stock from the West coast of Ireland, where the famine did its worst and freedom fighters were born and bread. Secrets and shame run in my blood. The unhealed trauma of hundreds of years of poverty and brutality simmers beneath my respectable British persona. 50% Irish 40% English and a 10% smattering of western European. Both the opressed and the oppressor lives in my DNA.
Although I was aware of my history I hadn't considered the impact on me until I read your piece. So, thank you for inspiration to delve deeper in to my spiritual DNA. 😊
You’re doing holy work, tracing spirit through the centuries. Thank you for letting my words be a matchstick in your remembering. ✨
Your essay resonates so much. I'm Irish Catholic stock from the West coast of Ireland, where the famine did its worst and freedom fighters were born and bread. Secrets and shame run in my blood. The unhealed trauma of hundreds of years of poverty and brutality simmers beneath my respectable British persona. 50% Irish 40% English and a 10% smattering of western European. Both the opressed and the oppressor lives in my DNA.
Thank you for sharing this, Lisa. That line—“both the oppressed and the oppressor lives in my DNA”—pierced straight through.
It’s a strange inheritance, isn’t it? To carry both the bruises and the baton.
I’m learning that reckoning isn’t about choosing sides within ourselves—
It’s about refusing to let either side go unnamed.
Your roots are seen here. 🌿🔔