Ancestor honor

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What is ancestor honor? It’s the way we keep our families stories moving through the generations. It’s how we take hold of someone who’s no longer here and still hold them close to our hearts. Ancestor honor is about acknowledging our loved ones who have passed on by retaining a piece of their legacy through their face and stories. The honoring of our loved ones helps us to remember the people we came from so we can know the person we want to grow into.

These ancestor medicine dolls are created with the idea of giving us all something to hold onto when we experience the loss of a loved one. They also serve as a door, not only into the past, but into the future. It gives us something to pass down in our families to keep the stories of our loved ones going from generation to generation. Those who we’ve loved and lost, deserve to still be thought of, spoken about, and celebrated. What greater way to do so than to have a doll our family from this time forward can hold to fill the gap that loss leaves in our arms.

Every ancestor doll is created in the likeness of your loved one so you’re able to present them and share them in whichever way you choose. The idea is to have something to hold onto and something to pass down from generation to generation. More healing can begin when we take time to grieve, but also to honor those who we’ve loved and we’ve lost.