When our family confirmed our Central American Indigenous heritage through DNA testing, I found myself wanting to claim this part of myself that had been cut off from our family but not really knowing where to start or if this was something I could ever connect with the limited information I had. I began to do research, talking with people, looking for answers, wishing I could find one place detailing all the answers I sought. I found myself looking inward and facing the shadows and traumas my family and my ancestors could not because they were trying to survive. Through this journey, I had sacred experiences where I learned my ancestors both genetically and spiritually live within me, and by decolonizing and healing my relationships with my mind, body, and spirit, I was connecting to the ancestors of my past, present, and future all living within me at once. As I gained more light and connection to something beyond myself, I witnessed the darkness being purged from my life and I understood that a part of me had to die to be reborn into the person I wanted to be, and the person I needed to be. To name such a process of spirit and body can truly be done only through the creation of art, which is at its core what the function and purpose of what art is to the creator and to those who engage and witness; to establish the roots of the soul grounding us as living beings to our source and to our destiny.