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new essay on the long road home

In this week’s letter, I write about my mother’s lifelong search for home after divorce, migration, and sacrifice uprooted the stability she once knew. Moving from house to house across Calgary, dreaming through open homes and lottery mansions, she spent decades trying to rebuild something that had already been lost generations earlier in India. As I return home to Canada with my own child and broken dreams in tow, I find myself tracing the same inherited longing—the ache of living between worlds, forever searching for elsewhere, and wondering what it truly means to belong.

On the podcast

New conversation on The Long Road Home

Rooted in Remembrance explores what happens when the stories we've inherited are incomplete. In this conversation with mystic, birth and death doula, astrologer, and ancestral guide Ellenie Anastasia, we discuss hidden lineages, cultural erasure, ancestral memory, and the lifelong search for belonging. Together, we reflect on how persecution, displacement, and silence can shape our identities across generations, and how reclaiming forgotten histories can become a profound act of healing. This episode is an invitation to honour where we come from, carry forward the wisdom of our ancestors, and remember that our roots often hold the very answers we've been searching for.

Meet Yamuna Flaherty

WRITER, MOTHER + STORYKEEPER