Their Comfort Is Not My Concern.

What do you do when your family tree ends at your grandparents? When slavery took the names and the faces and the records. When the generations before them are silent.

Chlarissa Harrison grew up in North Carolina and can only trace her ancestry back to her grandparents. The generations before them were erased. And yet she has built one of the most intentional and powerful connections to her ancestors of anyone you will hear on this show.

After losing her mother and her uncles in quick succession, she felt her anchor was gone. That grief sent her to Merida, Mexico where she began a spiritual journey that changed everything.

She discovered her grandmother was a hoodoo woman connected to the Gullah Geechee tribe through the slave ports of South Carolina.

She built an ancestral altar before she even knew what one was.

She dreamed of a tree in Africa where faces appeared that all looked like her. And she found a picture in a store of faceless ancestors that she knew was meant for her altar.