Returning to Guatemala after almost 8 years, was an amazing healing and learning experience for myself. I reconnected with my culture that felt so distant, yet I longed for everyday. I was grateful to encounter some of the Indigenous women who create the textiles I remember embellishing my body in as a child, and continue to carry as indispensable elements of my daily existence. As a child, I was unaware of the intricate significance these textiles hold within the indigenous Guatemalan women’s lives and how complex of a history their work holds. Although my youthful admiration for these textiles primarily emanated from their visual allure, the passage of time led me to want to understand the history and important these textiles carry. The textiles meticulously crafted from the environment by the indigenous women encapsulate a significance surpassing simply artistic beauty; they embody instruments of economic sustenance, empowerment, and cultural expression.