Why Connecting With Your Ancestors Is An Important Step To Healing

Intergenerational trauma or ruptures in important family relationships can leave you feeling unmoored, lost, and distressed. Maybe several generations of your family have all struggled with the same problems, and you’re struggling to break the cycle. Or maybe you feel disconnected from your culture and background and are craving a sense of belonging. Or maybe you have tried psychotherapy, but traditional psychotherapy approaches just aren’t getting to a layer of inner work related to collective, intergenerational, or ancestral trauma or grief. You don’t know where to turn for mentorship and guidance. Ancestral healing, also known as ancestral lineage repair, could be the answer.

Ancestral lineage repair is founded on the idea that everyone has ancestral guides who can help shift relational patterns. By turning to your ancestral guide for connection in a therapeutic setting, you can tap into a collective source of strength and receive a healing relationship with your ancestral guides. Here’s how ancestral lineage repair can help you heal lingering grief, break the cycle of intergeneration trauma, and even help you address an ambiguous sense of loss.

Explore Your Personal Lineage

With guidance from an expert in ancestral lineage repair, the first step to this process is to be guided to find out how well each lineage is in spirit. This will give you much more data to help you decide which specific blood lineage you would like to focus on first. Then you will be guided to connect with your ancestral guide -- a deceased blood related ancestor who is well in spirit and knows how to heal the deceased on the lineage. Then, you’ll spend time exploring “what happened” in the lineage across time through connecting with an ancestral guide. Even if you don’t know anything about your genetic history, family history, are adopted, the guide can help and share what is needed for healing.

Connecting To The Right Guides

It’s easy to assume that engaging in ancestral lineage repair means turning to a family member who hurt you or other living family members you already know with the goal of fixing the relationship. The thought of doing so might be intimidating. But thankfully, this isn’t the case in this approach. Instead, you’ll turn to a “well” ancestor in spirit, like a spirit guide, who is likely from many generations ago and likely whom you have never met before. You’ll be able to nurture your connection with your ancestral guide, during  as well as outside of your sessions. They will become your “go-to” connection throughout this process.

Healing Your Family’s Lineage

Ancestral lineage repair doesn’t just affect you. It can also repair and shift your family’s dynamics. For example, perhaps your family has been mourning an unexpected death or painful loss of some kind. Engaging in ancestral lineage repair can help you heal those wounds, and can help shift family dynamics in your whole family.

Acknowledging and Showing Appreciation to Your Ancestors

Many people do not have any rituals in their lives to acknowledge deceased loved ones or the influence of their ancestors on their life. With ancestral lineage repair, you can find ways to honor your ancestors in your daily life. This might mean adopting new rituals or traditions that keep your ancestor’s memory alive, practicing a daily meditation that helps you connect with your ancestors, or simply maintaining an active awareness of their guidance. Over time, you can rediscover a sense of belonging to your culture.

Receiving Blessings To Living Family

As you grow in your relationship with your ancestral guide, you may notice how it changes the dynamics of your living family. Your ancestors aren’t just looking out for you. They can support blessings to all of your living family members. Through working with your ancestral guide, you might feel inspired to continue healing your relationships with your living relatives or it may shift your perspective on your relationship with specific deceased relatives. You’ll be able to improve relationships that may have been affected by intergenerational trauma. You might find yourself growing closer to your immediate and extended family or able to reach a place of acceptance of loss.

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Are you struggling with ruptured family relationships or grief? Or wanting to enhance a sense of belonging? Ancestral healing can help. Reach out to discuss your options for scheduling your first session or sign up for Daphne’s newsletter to learn when the next ancestral lineage course will be offered.