“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
—George Bernard Shaw
In this episode, guest Rachael Cerrotti shares her experiences as a “storytelling alchemist’ and inherited memory collector, which seem to be the unexpected themes that keep unfolding through her life.
Rachael is an award-winning author, documentary storyteller, educator, and curator. Through an interdisciplinary practice, she explores stories rooted in the humanity of grief and inherited memory. Her flagship work, We Share The Same Sky, is a decade+ long project following her grandmother’s wartime history. She recently completed fellowships with The Witness Institute and New America, and now hosts the Along The Seam podcast.
I met Rachael in 2016, when we were both part of a very cathartic “Write Your Grief” group, facilitated by grief-specialist Megan Devine. It was great to connect with Rachael again in a vastly different moment in our lives, we and discuss what we learned there and how it helped us move forward with wider, softer hearts for ourselves and others.
In this episode, we talk about the incredible synchronicities that can happen when we follow the mysteries that unfold through ancestral secrets, inherited memory, and shared stories within the murky Domus Tenebrosa.
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