COLORADO ENERGY HEALER- HEALING GENERATIONAL AND
ANCESTRAL TRAUMA

Generational trauma is also know as intergenerational trauma or ancestral trauma. It is the psychological and emotional effects of trauma that is passed down from generation to generation. When you think about genetics, you probably think about inherited traits like hair color, eye color, and skin tone. But did you know that trauma, in a sense, can be inherited, too? This is what is known as generational, intergenerational or ancestral trauma. It is trauma that you may feel, and many believe that you carry the memory of in the cells of your body, although you did not experience it firsthand yourself. Just like you can have a trauma response to a traumatic event that happened directly to you during your lifetime, you can also carry patterns, feelings and beliefs for events that you did not experience, but that your ancestors did endure.

Long story short, yes! You can inherit trauma, patterns, beliefs, conditioning, and the psychological and emotional effects of experiences that your previous ancestors lived.

We carry stories, beliefs, and conditioning that affects, knowingly or unknowingly, the way we lead our lives. These manifestations can come from our familial line, but also from the collective (think Holocaust, war, famine, or groups that have been marginalized.) Outside of historical events and collective oppression, we can hold more personal inherited trauma. These traumas can include being a victim of or witnessing abuse/ neglect/violence, being the child of of a narcissistic parent, living in a household where a family member abuses substances such as alcohol or drugs, living in a household where a family member has mental health problems, losing access to a parent, and having a family member who attempts suicide or dies by suicide. When we identify these patterns and are guided through the necessary energetic release work, we can heal our ancestral past and release our epigenetic programming. This frees us from what has been holding us back, and allows us to step onto a new timeline of our true purpose and mission.

Ancestral or generational or intergenerational trauma is not a diagnosis, so there is not a specific set of symptoms. However, people affected by ancestral trauma may experience symptoms that are known to be related to trauma responses. These symptoms can include feeling emotions like anger, guilt, sadness, or shame; feeling hopeless, numb, anxious, or depressed; being easily startled or hyperaware; wanting to withdraw or isolate from loved ones; experiencing insomnia; lacking motivation or having difficulty concentrating; feeling malaise or generalized anxiety they can’t shake; and having physical symptoms that can’t be explained. What is tricky is that people that are experiencing symptoms secondary to ancestral trauma may not have an associated memory or story that they can relate the symptoms to. But, through energetic healing we can get to the root cause and dismantle the whole resonance field of the trauma. We can free ourselves.