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Sedna’s Daughters: Healing from Family Estrangement
Families in patriarchal cultures often mete out similar types of domination and oppression on their daughters that women experience in the larger world. For many daughters (and sons/trans/genderqueer folks), this includes scapegoating and rejection. Sedna’s Daughters provides a safe space for discussion on earth-based, spiritual approaches to healing from the confusing experience of family estrangement and recognizes all people's inherent belonging to Mother Earth, the human family, and the cosmos.
Sedna
I have a Ph.D., am a victim's advocate, college-level educator, and was shunned by one entire side of my biological kin and their family friends in 2007. Since then, I have built an international community of daughters (and sons and gender-fluid people) committed to supporting one another and thriving despite the aggression of our relatives. “Sedna” is the name of an Arctic Goddess revered throughout continents of the global north. As the story is told, She was violently rejected by her parents and cast into the sea to die, but instead survived to create otters, seals, and whales. Sedna is also the name of a planet just appearing in the farthest reaches of our solar system and discovered by astronomers on November 14, 2003. Nick Anthony Fiorenza writes that "Sedna's message here is that humanity must recognize the truth about the suppression, persecution, abduction and exploitation of the feminine force in the world; and this mentality perpetuating such must be addressed and changed." See my Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/SednasD/
