EP 15: Connecting to Ancestral Wisdom & Seasonal Approaches to Living [PART 2‪]‬ Ritualizing Rest

Meet Kristina Franziska Haas, @theAncestralHomekeeper, a mother, writer, and creator.

In addition to homeschooling her 2 children, Kristina writes a weekly Substack letter and has a relaxing YouTube channel dedicated to sharing glimpses inside of her home in Northern California where she practices slow living with her family & animals in this modern society.

Kristina is dedicated to blending the wisdom of our ancestors with modern understandings of self-nurturing & emotional health, in order to create an alternative to capitalistic patriarchy for her family.

2:50 craving snow capped mountains & autumn colors while growing up in Nor Cal; slow living - "we’re not Amish!"

5:28 the wisdom our ancestors possessed re: being seasonal and sustainable; co-living and co-working with the land and with nature; teaching my children what I should have been taught.

7:17 born with migration grief; an internal aching for ancestral land; a love for books & stories, escaping to ancestral places through reading; connecting to and/or moving to a climate that is similar to your ancestral home

11:42 the mother I thought I was going to be VS the mother I became the moment my children showed up; fewer techniques in the recipes, consolidating work in the kitchen - simplifying. Utilizing modern conveniences (like appliances!) to support us in a slower way of moving through our day.

18:00 the benefits of simplifying the way we approach food, eating, and nutrition; a history of childhood food scarcity; the unexplained struggle of showing up in the kitchen; “what am I expecting from myself, anyway?” deciding who and how we want to be in the kitchen and in the home; growing up with convenience foods and being a latch-key kid;

23:00 Kristina’s components to a delicious, healthy, easeful mealtime at home with the family

25:38 how does intentionally living slower affect the way that you show up in the world & in your community? Homeschooling in this modern society; remembering to slow down in our day, even when we are blessed with a wealth of opportunities in the homeschool community; incorporating rest into our daily routine; suddenly we’re decolonizing homeschool

30:00 entangled in patriarchal, Western ways; tuning-in to what we truly want & need; disconnecting from hyper-productivity; when capitalism wasn’t a dirty word; by educating our children in a seasonal way, we are being inherently anti-capitalist; learning to value rest

37:47 the stress of always being busy; eating in the car, catching up with the kids in the car, rushing to and from all of the things; where and how am I doing things differently? Am I being an example to my children of a different way of being, or am I just talking about it?

42:08 if we value rest, if we value slower, simpler living, we have to learn how to say NO to things we want to do, to gadgets we want

50:00 to do this work and to be relevant, I have to be authentic and realistic - because this is the reality. We live in a shitty, chaotic world. How the fuck can I have a day where I feel like I had restorative rest, and good healthy meals, so that when the next few days are busy or stressful I can be grounded and intentional?

53:00 keeping it real, and kind, with the kids; teaching by example; pause, breath, move slower; we’re allowed to feel our feelings and we are still going to do the right thing for our family

58:03 connecting with ancestors even when disconnected from living family of origin;

1:05:49 generational healing & breaking generational curses; being the cycle-breaker; preventing the boulder from running over my daughter and all of the daughters after her

1:10:27 reclaiming Homekeeper; closing words from Kristina Franziska


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