Healing Ancestral Trauma

Healing What Was Never Yours to Carry

Ancestral and intergenerational trauma refer to unresolved pain, fear, and conditioning passed down through family lines or entire communities. These wounds often stem from historical and collective trauma events—experiences that deeply impacted entire groups based on ethnicity, culture, spirituality, gender, or political identity.

Examples include genocide, colonization, witch hunts, residential schools, slavery, war, and forced assimilation. In these contexts, trauma isn’t just individual—it becomes embedded in the collective psyche and body of a people.

But ancestral trauma isn’t always extreme or dramatic.
It can also show up as:

• Families that suppress emotion as a survival strategy

• Nervous system deregulation passed through parenting styles

• Learned behaviors around fear, scarcity, or shame that were modeled and repeated

• Silence around grief, abuse, or mental health

From a scientific perspective, the field of epigenetics shows us that trauma can literally be encoded into our DNA, altering gene expression and impacting future generations. This means:
your ancestors’ trauma can live in your body—until you become conscious enough to shift it.

Healing ancestral trauma isn’t about blame or reliving the past.
It’s about interrupting inherited patterns, reconnecting to your true self, and choosing a new future.
It’s about reclaiming what was stolen—your voice, your worth, your aliveness.

If you're curious about where these patterns show up in your lineage—or how they might be impacting your relationships, self-worth, or nervous system—I’d be honoured to support you.

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