ANCESTRY
ANCESTRAL & TRADITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Where do you come from? What was your family’s relationship with food? What were their attitudes and beliefs? What kinds of experiences were passed down to you? By examining our roots, we can discover how our relationship with food was formed. We can use this relationship to create healthier, happier ways of honoring ourselves.
Exploring your genealogy, i.e. your family's history, gives us partial clues to why we make the choices we do. More important, the traditions that stem from our upbringing may help or hurt. Discover the power your lineage gives you to make clear choices, and uphold, discard or create new food traditions.
“I have found personal relevance that I couldn’t find at the doctor,
who told me to eat more fruit.
I’m eating more berries. I had forgotten that my grandmother always gave us berries – strawberries, raspberries, chokecherries, gooseberries.”