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ANCESTRAL WORK

Release What Was Never

Yours to Carry

Ancestral work clears the trauma, beliefs, and survival patterns passed down through your DNA so you can finally break the cycle and live YOUR life, not your grandmother's. If you're carrying your ancestors' unfinished business, this work releases it

Healing Inherited Trauma & Generational Patterns has a ripple effect throughout other branches in the family tree and forwards and backwards through time

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This Is For You If...

You Feel "I've Always Been This Way"

But anxiety, depression, or fear doesn't match your actual life experiences

Time and again, you see the same addiction, poverty, abuse, perfectionism, or emotional shutdown

Family Patterns Keep Repeating

You Feel Like You're Carrying Weight That Isn't Yours

But you can't name where it came from. Or you know where it originated but don't know what to do about it

Sudden Onset of Symptoms

They appear to have no clear cause, or they've been there as long as you can remember

You React To Things That Never Happened To You

Hypervigilance about money even though you've always been financially secure, terror of abandonment even though you weren't abandoned

A Layer Beneath Your Personal Story

That feels older, deeper, not quite YOURS. And, You're the "black sheep" or "cycle breaker" in your family

WHAT IS ANCESTRAL WORK?

98% of your non-coding DNA is responsible for emotional, behavioral, and personality traits ... and it's affected by environmental stressors, including your ancestors' traumas.

This is called epigenetics.

When your great-grandmother survived famine, war, or persecution, her body adapted to survive. Those survival strategies got coded into her DNA, and passed down to your grandmother, your mother, and YOU.

The problem?

Those survival strategies (hypervigilance, scarcity mindset, emotional shutdown, mistrust) outlived their usefulness. They were meant to help HER survive. But now they're running YOUR life and causing suffering.

Ancestral work helps you:

Identify which patterns are inherited (vs personally generated)
Witness and honor your ancestors' trauma (so they can finally rest)
Release the survival strategies that no longer serve
Reclaim your lineage as wisdom and strength (not burden)
Break the cycle so your children (or future generations) are free

WHAT HAPPENS IN A SESSION?

Before the Session:

We'll have a brief conversation (via WhatsApp, Facebook video, email, or in person) to understand:

What you're experiencing
Your intentions
What patterns you've noticed (family dynamics, recurring struggles)
What you know about your family history (migration, war, poverty, abuse, loss). And, how far back the pattern seems to go
You don't need to know details. Your body and the ancestral field will reveal what needs addressing.

I may ask questions like:

"When did you first notice this feeling of being incomplete?"
"Is there a specific event or relationship that feels unfinished?"
"What would 'wholeness' feel like for you?"

During the Session:

We'll use a combination of modalities:

1. Genogram Work (Family mapping)

We'll create a visual map of your family tree, tracking patterns
across generations
This helps identify: Who carried what? Where did the pattern start?
Who tried to break it but couldn't?

2. Epigenetic Journaling & Inquiry

We'll explore questions like:

"What did my ancestors survive?"
"What beliefs did they need to hold to survive?"
"What am I still carrying that was theirs, not mine?"

3. Cacao Ceremony (if appropriate)

Heart-opening ritual to connect with your lineage
Create sacred space to receive ancestral messages

4. Shamanic Journeying (if needed)

Traveling to meet your ancestors in non-ordinary reality
Witnessing their trauma, offering healing
Retrieving ancestral wisdom or power
Curse or Hex unravelling

5. Somatic Release (if needed)

Your body holds inherited nervous system patterns
We may use gentle somatic movement, embodiment exercises, or TRE to discharge what's stored

6. Ritual & Reframing

Creating a ceremony to honor your ancestors AND release their burden
Reframing inherited traits as wisdom (e.g., hypervigilance to awareness, scarcity to resourcefulness)

After the Session:

A map of the patterns we identified
Rituals to honor your ancestors (altar work, offerings, prayers)
Practices to prevent re-absorbing the pattern
Journaling prompts for ongoing integration
Guidance on how to work with ancestral support (vs ancestral burden)

What you might experience:

Sudden clarity about why you've always felt/behaved a certain way
Grief (for your ancestors' suffering)
Relief (realizing it's NOT your fault, NOT your failure)
A felt sense of something lifting
Connection to ancestors who want to support you (not burden you)
Anger at what was passed down
Gratitude for what they survived so you could be here

You don't need to know details. Your body and the ancestral field will reveal what needs addressing

Most clients need 3-7 days to integrate. Some feel immediate shifts. Others notice changes unfolding over weeks depending on the nature of the work. Patterns that felt "locked in" suddenly have space around them.

What ever comes up or through ...All of it is welcome.

WHAT ANCESTRAL WORK

HELPS WITH

Family Dynamics:

Repeating relationship patterns
(choosing partners like your parent)
Sibling roles that feel scripted
Feeling like the "identified patient" or scapegoat
Pressure to carry the family legacy
(or rebel against it)

Behavioral Patterns:

Addiction (runs in families)
Perfectionism / overachieving / workaholism
Scarcity mindset (even when you have enough)
Codependency, people-pleasing
Emotional shutdown or avoidance

Spiritual Disconnection:

Feeling cut off from your lineage
Wanting to connect with ancestors but not knowing how
Fear of becoming like your parents

Inherited Emotional

Patterns:

Anxiety that doesn't match your life
Depression with no clear trigger
Rage or grief that feels "too big"
for your personal experience
Shame or unworthiness that's
been there "forever"

Physical Symptoms:

Chronic pain or illness with emotional roots
Unexplained health issues that also affected ancestors

WHEN TO USE THIS TOOL

The Pattern Feels
Old

Older than you ...

like it's been there forever

A history of war,
famine, migration, persecution, abuse

Significant Family Trauma

Traditional Therapy Helps, But

There's a layer beneath your personal story

Combine With Shamanic Work When

Curses. Or, soul parts are tangled with ancestral trauma (e.g., your soul part left when you absorbed your mother's grief

Combine With EFT When

Limiting beliefs
are inherited ...
("women in my family never succeed")

Combine With Somatic Work When:

Your nervous system is stuck in an inherited survival state (hypervigilance from your grandmother's war trauma)

THE SCIENCE OF INHERITED TRAUMA

This isn't just spiritual—it's biological

Key research proving intergenerational trauma transmission is found in Epigenetics Studies For example:

Epigenetics Studies:

Rachel Yehuda's Holocaust Research - Children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors show measurable changes in stress hormones (cortisol) and fear responses—even though they never experienced the Holocaust themselves (Biological Psychiatry study)
Dutch Hunger Winter Studies - Descendants of famine survivors show metabolic changes 2-3 generations later
9/11 Research - Pregnant women near the Twin Towers passed PTSD markers to their children in utero

Mark Wolynn's Work:

Trauma patterns persisting for 3-4 generations
Emotional and behavioral symptoms often originate in unresolved family trauma
Language patterns, phobias, and chronic conditions can be inherited

Polyvagal Theory (Stephen Porges):

Your nervous system state is partially inherited from your parents' nervous system
An anxious parent doesn't just model anxiety, they pass down a hypervigilant nervous system biologically
This happens through pregnancy, birth, and early co-regulation (or lack thereof)

Your ancestors did the best they could with what they had. But what helped them survive can hurt you if it's still running unconsciously. Ancestral work honors their survival AND frees you to live differently.

WHY WORK WITH ME

Understanding alone doesn't break the cycle. Your body still carries the bracing. Your nervous system still runs the program. The curse still whispers.

Most ancestral work stops at understanding: you map the family tree, identify the patterns, maybe releasing some emotions in a workshop.

I work at the intersection of ancestral wisdom and embodied healing. I've studied Mark Wolynn's epigenetic inquiry and genogram work, participated firsthand in family constellation therapy, and spent years weaving this work into sacred ceremony.

But I'm also shamanic, somatic, and trauma-informed—which means I don't stop at awareness.

Here's what sets me apart:

If your ancestral work reveals that:

Your anxiety is your grandmother's unprocessed war trauma,
I know how to release it from your nervous system
There's a lineage curse blocking your family,
I know how to trace and unravel it
A soul part fragmented three generations ago
I can retrieve it
Your body carries your mother's grief
I can help you discharge it somatically

You don't need five different practitioners. I see the whole picture—and I have the tools to work with every layer.

I see patterns. I see layers. And I use the RIGHT TOOL for the RIGHT MOMENT.

FAQs

Q: What if I don't know my family history?

A: You don't need detailed history. It’s very common for family history to be lost or purposely kept secret. We can work with what you DO know, or with the patterns showing up in YOUR life now and work backwards, or we can work in non-ordinary realms to speak with your ancestors directly.

Q: What if my ancestors did terrible things? Can this work still help?

A: Yes. Ancestral work isn't about excusing harm, it's about understanding the context, breaking the cycle, and choosing differently. You can honor their humanity while refusing to repeat their patterns..

Q: Will this dishonor my family?

A:The opposite. True honor means acknowledging the full truth, their survival, their pain, their resilience, AND freeing yourself (and future generations) from carrying what they couldn't resolve.

Q: Can I do this if I'm adopted or don't know my biological family?

A: Yes! You carry both biological lineage and the lineage of those who raised you. We can work with what's present in your system.

Q: How many sessions will I need?

A: Some clients experience profound shifts in one session as the awareness of ancestral patterns come to light. Larger shifts and healing comes when awareness is combined with personalized ceremony and integration sessions. Others, especially those with complex family histories need multiple sessions on particular themes (especially if there are multiple traumas, patterns, or layers). Most clients start with one session, then decide if they want more support via a program.