Transgenerational Therapy & Ancestral Healing
Photo collage by Patricia Canellis for the project “Ghosts Happen”
It is not dead skin that I leave behind. I am just invisible small cells that will not bother you at all at the beginning. I will not be noticed and I will leave you quite indifferent. Then slowly by slowly I will get into your nest, your life, your head and from invisible, I will become sweltering.
Transgenerational Therapy is a powerful therapy using mainly 2 tools : the family tree and the family constellations, both to explore our story and our wounds. Usually our family is build around some foundational myth, a sort of “legend”; for example it can the myth of solidarity, the myth of respect, the myth of success, (this one sometimes result into the myth of “we are better than the others”), and all other kinds of myths, all the things we say about ourselves and about our family. The stories we were told, the stories we think we heard, the ones we did not hear about - but those we know down deep that something was silenced all along, the stories we feel are weird.
Exploring Our Roots And Ancestral History
Any unhealed past is not really past; it will continually be repeated until it can be processed and integrated. Only integrated history is presence.
Our ancestors transmit to us an intelligence that is resilient – after all, we are here today because of the sacred lineage of life, the will that wants to live. We are here thanks to them. However, transgenerational trauma is also transmitted. Our bodies and nervous systems are the resonance body for fragmentation to find a home. As Thomas Hubl writes in his book, Healing Collective Trauma, “…Trauma is never purely an individual problem. And no matter how private or personal, trauma cannot belong solely to a family, or even to that family’s intricate ancestral tree. The consequences of trauma—indeed, the cumulative effects of personal, familial, and historical traumas—seep across communities, regions, lands, and nations. The impact of human-created suffering extends beyond the original subject or subjugated group; trauma’s legacy weaves and wires our very world, informing how we live in it, how we see it, and how we see and understand one another.”
In the process of a transgenerational work, we get to revisit the stories the legends and we get to see how our ancestors with a different perspective and examine the ripples of what happened to them, and how their own trauma, their own silences have impacted our life, today. This is a highly therapeutical process and involves accessing your innate healing capacity through the ancestral web. It gives more clarity and sets things into a more peaceful state.
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