Inherited Trauma
Self limiting behavior patterns are passed down through generations
We carry secret stories from before our lifetimes, unconsciously compromising our well-being now out of devotion and loyalty to our ancestors- whether we knew them or not. The unbearable, overwhelming and unthinkable things that human beings cannot contain in their own experience are held in the collective family consciousness. Some of you come from a lineage of anger or violence, from people who kept score and settled grievances in ways that were destructive to themselves and others. Even now, you may experience difficulty containing your emotions or you may feel victimized in business or personal relationships. Perhaps your family may have tried hard to assimilate and fit in, but never quite succeeded. Maybe you feel isolated and lonely in your own life today. Your people might have been survivors, having lived through war or other atrocities. Many fought in battles, inner and outer, and you may experience your life as a struggle, full of conflict and scarcity, no matter how good it gets or how much you have.
Epigenetics provides a way to begin understanding the dynamics behind these limiting hidden loyalties. Genes chemically react, switching certain markers on or off when we are exposed to emotional trauma in our environment. These stressors can include war, emigration, oppression, abandonment, pregnancy loss and early or tragic death. Traumatic memories are transmitted through changes in DNA, and stressful emotional patterns stored or imprinted in an ancestor’s gene expression may have been passed down to you, and to your children. Unconsciously identified with our ancestral wounding, we often continue patterns of anxiety, depression, isolation, anger, guilt, fear, chronic illness and heartbreak, carrying our ancestors injuries into the future. Much like genes can be turned on and off or expressed differently through changes in environment and behavior, inherited family trauma can be completed, resolved and released.
Family and systemic constellation therapy is a three dimensional group process that works non-locally, outside of linear time and space. Representatives are used to shift and resolve generational suffering, removing blocks and unwinding entanglements from unconscious inheritance. With recalibrated cellular memories and full appreciation of a re-ordered system, old wounds are healed and a brighter future is available. Constellation therapy is often woven into individual change work, and is available as a stand alone modality to move larger issues related to devotional patterning.
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