For some time, I found myself searching far and wide, within, and sometimes far outside, contemporary healing realms. Over what felt like lifetimes, I combed through psychology, spirituality, culture, and myth. I explored medicinal, homeopathic, shamanic, and ancestral records. I studied astrology, numerology, ancient cosmologies, that of my kin and that of my neighbours’kin. I participated in new age explorations and ancient ceremony. I tried plant medicine, pharmaceuticals,