I have a number of new clients right now who are dealing with the sense that their life is fundamentally not working, and hasn’t for a long time. They are demoralized, they lack trust in themselves and their lives, and they are understandably skeptical about whether anything can help, even though their desire for help and hope is very, very deep. They don’t want to give up–indeed, they, haven’t–but they’re not completely sure why.
As a result of years of experience, I am convinced there are two major contributors to this kind of experience: intense childhood trauma, and/or intense ancestral trauma that may go back many generations. Usually, both are at work.
One of the major contributors to the pain the client is feeling is a sense of being alone and utterly unsupported. It makes everything else worse. If there is support, well, it doesn’t really feel supportive, for some reason.
In this case, something has fundamentally interrupted the flow of life in the family. We need this flow of life to feel in life. By connecting with larger ancestral life, we can fuller life for ourselves. But if some huge suffering has interrupted this flow, we cannot feel it.
We long for something real, that truly exists, and is our proper birthright: deep ancestral support for life. We need to unentangle our relationship with that life in order to feel it flow properly in our experience.
The Good News? This is exactly what our ancestors want for us, too….
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