In Greece this year, while walking the ruins of the Eleusinian Mysteries, I found myself circling one question: what does it mean to belong when you’ve been disconnected from everything that once gave your life shape?

In this episode, I go looking for answers in the place most of us avoid: my own bloodline. While the family legends I grew up with held some truth, they weren't the full story, and what I uncovered through ancestry was the first time I’d ever seen myself reflected in someone from my family.

After the last eighteen months - losing my father, stepping away from the family I grew up in, facing mortality head-on - I’m beginning to understand why belonging feels different now. Why it feels urgent. Why it feels haunted.

This episode is the beginning of a deeper search and leads me to a journey I had no idea I was about to go on ...