The Red Road: How Traditional Tattoos Guide One Artist's Sobriety Journey with Nick Wawia

About this episode

Nicholas Wawia discusses how traditional tattooing practices have played a crucial role in his journey to sobriety and identity reclamation.

#060 The journey from addiction to wholeness often requires powerful medicine. For Nicholas Wawia, that medicine came in the form of ancestral skin marking – specifically, the forward-facing red lines across his face that remind him daily to "keep my sights forward" on the red road of sobriety. In this raw, heartfelt conversation with host Dion Kaszas, Nicholas shares how traditional tattooing practices became central to his recovery and identity reclamation. "I need something a little more ...

People in this episode

Host: Dion Kaszas

Guest: Nicholas Wawia

Topics covered

• sobriety
• traditional tattoos
• addiction recovery
• identity reclamation
• ancestral practices

Keywords

• traditional tattoos
• sobriety
• addiction
• recovery
• ancestral skin marking

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