What Is Ancestral Healing?

Ancestral Healing allows us to release the inherited emotional trauma that acts as a barrier to our health and happiness. It releases the burdens of our ancestors so that we can experience freedom from the past. Some of the unexplained familial patterns we have experienced all our lives may go deeper than we realize. In fact, there’s a growing body of research suggesting that our emotional and behavioral tendencies can be inherited.

In the same way that we inherit certain physical traits, we also inherit memories, traumas, emotions and behavioral patterns, that may have a profound impact not only on the course of our own lives but also on those of generations to come. We all carry these familial imprints, but that does not mean we are sentenced to dealing with them for the rest of our lives. We may not be able to change the past, but we can influence our own future.

In my experience, working with many clients to release Inherited Trapped Emotions, I have seen how disruptive this energy can be, and how it can create a predisposition towards repeated and similar emotional experiences in our lives and the lives of our families. It can also create disruption in our physical bodies, resulting in imbalances and unpleasant symptoms. We can inherit fear and have a tendency to be more fearful, we can inherit anger and have a tendency to anger easily, we can inherit terror, panic, sorrow and any number of negative emotions resulting from the trauma of our ancestors and, as a result, go through life with this feeling that we just can’t shake, no matter what we do. It can impact our health and well being and impose unnecessary suffering.

Inherited Trauma

In the relatively new field of behavioral epigenetics, researchers have studied the physiological and psychological effects of overwhelming emotional experiences such as those that occur from natural disasters, rape, the loss of a child, or an abusive home situation. Their findings have documented that trauma can affect the expression or suppression of certain genes, not only for the person involved but also for succeeding generations. Often, families may have tendencies that are unhealthy, and ancestral healing can help to break that cycle.

Many of us are raised hearing: It’s water under the bridge. The past is the past. Don’t talk about it. Unfortunately, what is unmentionable does not disappear from our psyches. While the horror may be suppressed, future generations often feel “haunted” by something they don’t understand. Nightmares, depression, anxiety, sleep issues and even pain can be just a few of the resulting effects.

Going back for many generations, our ancestors, who have faced difficulties such as hunger, illness, trauma, heartache, suffering, war, slavery, and even genocide, were greatly altered by their experiences. The stress of their situations changed their epigenetic expression, and these changes were passed down to us. We see this in Holocaust survivors. The stress they encountered altered them and their offspring as well.

Transgenerational Trauma has real and lasting effects, not just on survivors of trauma, but on the descendants of trauma survivors as well. According to Professor Marcus Pembrey from University College London, “There is no doubt personal experiences can affect subsequent generations, and research shows it is highly relevant to phobias, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorders.”

We are deeply and intricately connected to our familial lines, sometimes in ways far more complex than we can imagine. It can be comforting to realize that we can be empowered to change the impact transgenerational trauma has had on our lives and have the opportunity to transcend our past, for ourselves and for future generations.

How to Tell If You Have Inherited Emotional Baggage:

1. You have unexplainable fears or phobias that are not attributable to your own life experiences.

2. You have unexplainable pain or have had some form of illness since early childhood.

3. You find yourself very sensitive or easily triggered in certain situations, typically in a particular way. (ex. insecure, anxious, depressed, etc.)

4. You feel stuck, like there is something holding you back from moving forward with your life.

5. You repeatedly make the same mistakes and are locked in patterns of self-sabotage, addiction or self-destruction.

If one or more of the above ring true for you, it is quite possible that you have inherited emotional baggage creating issues in your life.

Session Info

In an Ancestral Healing Session, we identify and release inherited emotional trauma. Typically, we focus on a major concern or issue that you are having and we work to release the inherited emotional energies that are contributing to or causing this particular issue in your life. Sessions typically last anywhere from 30-45 minutes, depending on how many inherited emotions are able to be released, but usually the body is able to successfully release 8 to 12 inherited emotions per session. Because this ancestral trauma is a part of your genetic blueprint, healing work goes to the root of an issue and creates positive shifts, freeing you from issues that may be difficult to otherwise heal. Not only does ancestral healing release this energy from you, but it heals the entire family line, everyone who has been impacted by it that came before or after you.

It is not necessary to know your familial history to heal it. Humans can inherit emotional trauma going back many generations, and this inherited trauma can have a major impact on our health and well-being. You may not be aware that inherited Terror from 23 generations ago is impacting your financial security, but you may be aware that you struggle to feel safe in the area of finances. In our sessions we are able to go back many generations to release and heal ancestral trauma that is having an impact on your life in very specific ways. As we change our current story, and in tandem, the stories of our past and future, we can begin to empathize with the circumstances of our ancestors and feel grateful we were given the chance to try to do things differently.

Sessions can be done from the comfort of your home, so no matter if you live across town or on the other side of the globe, there is no need to travel to my office to benefit from this powerful work. In fact, I do most of my sessions by proxy, which is similar to distance healing, and this approach makes sessions more convenient and efficient for my clients, in truth, they prefer it this way. You can choose whether you would like to be on the phone with me during the session, asking questions as we go through the process of identifying and releasing trapped emotional energies, or you can wait until your session is completed to review your session notes via text, email or over the phone, asking any questions you may have about your session. Either way, you will be able to benefit from the energy therapy session.

My Story with Ancestral Healing

24 generations ago, a Male named John de Mowbray I was living in Yorkshire, England, as lord of Tanfield and Well. He went against King Edward II and fought in an uprising, in the Battle of Boroughbridge. The Battle was lost, and John was taken prisoner and hung in the town of York. His estates and lands were forfeited and his family was left to suffer for his disloyalty. His son, John II , age 7, and his wife, Aline were imprisoned in the Tower of London, where they remained for 5 years, destitute and without any future certainty until they were released in 1327. The Panic and Terror that John II experienced with losing his father, losing his family estates and being imprisoned in the Tower altered him and his epigenetic legacy has been passed down in my family for 23 generations.

I was not aware of this small part of obscure history, until I had an ancestral healing session to release financial blocks. Discovering and releasing the Panic and Terror from 23 generations ago I was able to uncover enough information to find these ancestors in my family tree. It’s not always possible to know the circumstances that brought about the inherited trauma, but it was a fascinating and validating experience to be able to get a view into understanding the lives of my ancestors and free myself of these fear based emotions that I had connected to my own financial security.

Client Testimonials

“I recently had an Ancestral Healing Session, where I was able to release a number of trapped emotions that have carried over into my life from generations past. So much of what I thought of as just challenging parts of my personality ever since I was a child, revealed themselves as emotions I had inherited. The next morning after the session, I woke up feeling so much clarity. I had a real feeling of lightness, and so many of the things I had been playing over in my head previously seemed so much less important. 

And the information revealed to me in my sessions has been simply fascinating. Knowing a little about my family tree, some of the inherited emotions made so much sense. A number of apparent issues through the family line were so immediately illuminated as intense emotions carried over from previous traumas from long-ago relatives. And how grateful I am that not only are these issues released from me, but also for my son, who also inherited them from me. I’m so excited to see how the things in our lives continue to evolve after these traumatic imprints have been cleared.

I cannot thank Christina enough for shining a light on these things and facilitating this healing. Even in one session, the effects are profound. Having had a few different sessions myself, I feel like my life is set for a different trajectory now.”

-Kathaleen Linger, Orlando, FL