Unlocking Ancient Secrets: How "Mothers of Magic" Reveals the Hidden Power of Ancestral Wisdom

Unlocking Ancient Secrets: How "Mothers of Magic" Reveals the Hidden Power of Ancestral Wisdom

By the time I closed the book, I wasn’t sure I’d absorbed it as theology so much as permission—permission to keep listening to the birds, to be angry about a history I already knew, and to believe that asking for help, from whatever mothers are still willing to give it, isn’t a failure of self-reliance: it’s the birthright the book keeps insisting we already have.

Meet the Contributor
Headshot of author Candace Cahill against the Alaskan mountainsCandace Cahill is a first mother, late-discovery adoptee, memoirist, and essayist whose work explores genetic separation, disenfranchised grief, and what she calls liminal loss — the grief of those who are neither fully lost nor fully found. Her memoir, Goodbye Again, was published by Legacy Book Press in 2022. She lives in Alaska, within sight of Denali.

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