The Medicine Tribe

AUGUST 2026 EDITION The Gathering A Summer of Deep Remembering A Letter from Tamara Beloved Tribe, This summer has been a lot. Beautiful, intense, confronting, expansive, and at times completely unexpected. So much has moved, both here at Mother’s House and in the work we are doing together. And I feel like this is where the real work begins. Not in the peak experiences. Not in the ceremonies, the insights or the moments where suddenly everything makes sense. But afte

What we are building I have been sitting with what to say here. Part one was about what I saw in the field. Part two was about where I decided to stand in it. This one is about what that actually looks like when you put it into practice. Not as a mission statement. As specific things, built. The first thing I did was ask myself what I actually know. After ten years of dieta, after sitting in more ceremonies than I can count, after learning alongside Roberth and Miguel and oth

I said I was still deciding what my place in this field should be. I am not deciding anymore. Here is where I landed, why, and what I am asking for now. The cup goes back to Roberth. Back to Miguel. Back to the people who actually hold this lineage, who carry it in their blood and their language and their land. They are the ones who should stand at the front of the ceremony. They are the ones the reward should return to, so it can go back to their community, back to Pahoyan,

The dark side of transformational healing space “ I put myself in the hands of people who were not equipped to hold what I gave them. It happened more than once. Here is what years of sitting in other people's ceremonies taught me, and the question it left me holding.” I thought he was exceptional. I later understood he was not. That is the sentence I keep coming back to, because it has been true more than once, with more than one teacher. The majority of lineage holders I ha