Signs That Your Body is Holding Ancestral Trauma
- Safa
- Dec 12, 2020
- 25 min read
Updated: Jul 18
You might be reading this because you sense there’s something deeper influencing your life—something rooted in the experiences of your ancestors. Ancestral trauma is the emotional pain and suffering passed down through generations, often hidden beneath the surface but shaping our mental, emotional, and physical well-being. It can show up as constant anxiety, addiction, or other somatic symptoms that feel hard to explain.
The important thing to know is that recognizing this inherited pain is the crucial first step toward healing. By facing the past, you begin to understand your present challenges, break harmful generational cycles, and open the door to a brighter, more empowered future.
Healing ancestral trauma goes beyond simply acknowledging wounds; it invites you to explore the deeper messages, emotions, and lessons embedded within your family’s history. By uncovering and releasing suppressed feelings, you can restore balance to your mind, body, and spirit. This journey offers clarity, strength, and a renewed connection to your inner power and purpose.
What makes this process truly transformative is that it not only helps you heal old wounds but also reconnects you with the wisdom and gifts your ancestors carried. Through a combination of vibration, psychology, spirituality, somatic practices, and movement, you can tap into the resilience of your lineage, unlocking your full potential and creating a more meaningful life for yourself and generations to come.
Ancestral healing is about giving yourself what you never received—and what many generations before you never had the chance to receive either. You are the golden link in your family’s chain, carrying the energy of those who came before: their wounds, their struggles, but also their strength and resilience. When you commit to healing, you’re not just transforming your own life—you’re shifting the vibration of your entire ancestral line. The healing energy flows through you, breaking long-held patterns and opening the way for freedom and wholeness. You become the bridge between past and future, the catalyst for change that rewrites the story for yourself and generations to come. Your healing is sacred work—one that honors your ancestors and creates a legacy of restoration and hope.
What is Ancestral Trauma ?
Ancestral trauma refers to the emotional, psychological, and even biological wounds passed down through generations due to the traumatic experiences of your ancestors. When your forebears faced repeated abuse, addiction, chronic illness, or other hardships, their survival instincts led them to develop behaviors, beliefs, and coping mechanisms that helped them endure harsh and unsupported environments. While these adaptations were crucial for their survival, they can be unconsciously transmitted to you through family dynamics, parenting styles, and cultural norms.
As a result, you might find yourself carrying core beliefs rooted in fear, dysfunction, or disconnection—patterns that keep you stuck in survival mode, even when you desire to thrive, dream boldly, and feel supported and abundant. According to trauma researcher Dr. Rachel Yehuda, trauma can leave a biological imprint on the body that passes down through generations. Studies indicate that your genetic expression may carry echoes of your ancestors’ pain for three generations or more, even if you have not directly experienced those traumatic events.
This inherited trauma manifests as emotional and energetic imprints that influence your behaviors, reactions, and health, often without your conscious awareness. It can feel confusing or overwhelming until you begin the healing journey and start unraveling these deep-seated patterns.
To truly flourish, healing ancestral trauma is essential. You embody not only the struggles and survival strategies of your ancestors but also their resilience, wisdom, and courage. By exploring your family history and addressing the trauma passed down to you, you can release these inherited burdens and create space for healthier, more empowering patterns. This healing benefits not only you but also future generations, enabling you to break free from the weight of ancestral pain and build a future grounded in freedom and well-being.
As Maya Angelou said, “We are not only responsible for what we do but also for what we fail to do.” Ancestral healing calls you to take responsibility for your inherited stories and transform them into legacies of strength, hope, and renewal.
Common Ancestral Patterns & Traumas
If you look closely at the patterns that ripple through your family line, you might start to notice some heavy, repeating themes—things like emotional walls that keep you from fully feeling or trusting your own intuition, or the silent weight of shame around your femininity or sexuality that’s been passed down without words. Maybe abandonment or neglect shows up in the stories you’ve heard or the ways you relate to others.
These patterns aren’t random; they’re echoes of bigger collective wounds—wars, displacement, oppression, and systems designed to keep certain voices silent or certain bodies controlled.
You might even feel the pull of ancestral grief tied to family separations, addiction, or cultural erasure, shaping how safe or connected you feel in the world.
The truth is, these inherited traumas live in your nervous system and your energy, quietly influencing your beliefs, your fears, and how you show up every day. But here’s the good news: by recognizing these patterns, you’re already stepping into the healing. You’re opening the door to rewrite the story, to reclaim the parts of yourself and your lineage that have been overshadowed for too long.
Denial of emotional expression and intuition
Parental abandonment or neglect
Internalized shame/guilt around femininity and sexuality
Patriarchal enforcement of rigid gender roles
Collective trauma around birth, motherhood, feminine power
Cultural/religious restrictions on women’s roles
Family separation
Forced adoption
Emotional unavailability of caregivers
Intergenerational substance abuse
Domestic turmoil
War and conflict
Racism and oppression
Forced migration and displacement
Genocide and ethnic cleansing
Slavery and enslavement
Colonization and cultural erasure
Poverty and systemic inequality
Sexual and domestic violence
Environmental trauma
Additional patterns and traumas:
Emotional repression and denial
Chronic family secrecy
Addiction cycles
Mental health stigma
Abandonment fears
Codependency patterns
Unresolved grief and loss
Intergenerational poverty mindset
Trauma related to immigration and assimilation
Disconnection from ancestral roots and traditions
How Does Ancestral Trauma Gets Passed Down?
Ancestral trauma is transmitted through multiple interconnected layers—emotional, relational, individual, and collective—each influencing how trauma echoes across generations.
On a biological level, epigenetics plays a key role. Trauma experienced by your ancestors can cause chemical changes in gene expression without altering their DNA sequence. These epigenetic markers can be inherited by you, influencing how your body and brain respond to stress and increasing your vulnerability to anxiety, depression, or other health challenges. Trauma can also affect the development and regulation of your nervous system, with heightened stress responses passed down through prenatal exposure and early caregiving environments.
Emotionally, unresolved trauma creates wounds within your family that often remain unspoken or unconscious. These emotional imprints—such as fear, grief, or shame—are transmitted through subtle cues, behaviours, and the emotional atmosphere you grew up in. You may carry these feelings without fully understanding their origin, which can lead to unexplained emotional distress or patterns of reactivity that mirror your ancestors’ pain.
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Relationally, trauma is passed through family dynamics and attachment patterns. Parenting styles shaped by trauma—like emotional unavailability, hypervigilance, or overprotection—have influenced how you learned to regulate your emotions and relate to others. These relational patterns can perpetuate cycles of trauma, as you may unconsciously absorb and reenact the unresolved struggles of previous generations.
At the individual level, ancestral trauma can show up as internal conflicts, limiting beliefs, or self-sabotaging behaviors. Without awareness, you might carry inherited fears, guilt, or feelings of disconnection that shape your identity and choices. This internalized trauma can block your personal growth and healing until you consciously address it.
On a collective scale, ancestral trauma reflects the shared histories of your community or culture—such as colonization, slavery, war, or systemic oppression. These collective wounds impact entire populations, influencing social structures, cultural narratives, and group identity. Healing at this level involves acknowledging historical injustices and fostering collective resilience and restoration.
By understanding ancestral trauma as a multi-layered experience, you can approach your healing journey holistically—honoring the biological, emotional, relational, individual, and collective threads that weave your unique story.
Signs Your Body is Holding Ancestral Trauma
Our bodies carry more than just the experiences of our own lives—they also hold the imprints of our ancestors’ traumas.
Somatic psychology teaches us that trauma is stored not only in the mind but deeply within the body, influencing how our nervous system responds to stress and safety.
Scientific research in epigenetics reveals that traumatic experiences can alter gene expression, passing these changes down through generations and affecting how our bodies and brains react today.
When ancestral trauma is present, your nervous system may remain in a heightened state of alert or shutdown, even if you’re unaware of the original source. Understanding these somatic signals is the first step in recognizing how your body may be carrying inherited pain—and how you can begin to heal from it.
Despite your personal healing efforts, major breakthroughs feel out of reach, possibly because ancestral patterns remain unaddressed.
You carry deep, unprocessed grief that feels overwhelming and hard to begin healing.
Intense fear arises during your healing, feeling consuming and disconnected from your own experiences.
A vague but heavy sense of trauma or burden has shadowed your life since birth, like an ancestral curse.
You believe you absorbed your mother’s trauma in the womb, creating confusion about how to handle these feelings.
Close family members may have severe mental health challenges, such as schizophrenia, often linked to unresolved trauma.
You sometimes feel like an “old soul,” especially around your parents, struggling to reconcile this with your trauma.
Stress during your mother’s pregnancy may have caused epigenetic changes affecting you before birth.
Persistent existential despair and questioning life’s meaning arise without clear cause.
You carry guilt and shame that don’t seem connected to your personal experiences.
Grounding yourself is difficult and ancestral memories trigger intense disgust, guilt, or avoidance.
Physical Signs of Ancestral Trauma
This list highlights how ancestral trauma can manifest through a wide range of physical, neurological, and systemic health challenges.
Neck pain, deep shoulder tension
Chronic stiffness in the neck and shoulders
Fibromyalgia
Degenerative conditions
Spinal and sacral misalignment, uneven hips, and
Nervous system overactivity or dysregulation, especially in sacral nerves, leading to tension in the jaw, bruxism (teeth grinding), and chronic stress responses
Autoimmune disorders
Chronic fatigue, adrenal fatigue
Hormonal imbalances
Fibroids, endometriosis
Fragile bones, early-onset osteoarthritis
Inflammation affecting kidneys, liver, and digestive system
Persistent brain fog, migraines, hearing problems
Fragmented memory, insomnia, and disrupted sleep patterns
Dissociation, depersonalization, depression, and nervous system dysregulation
Effects linked to birth trauma and prenatal stress
Toxicity in the body that remains despite detox efforts and dietary changes
Emotional Signs of Ancestral Trauma
One of the most common ancestral traumas I work with my clients to heal is the suppression of the feminine. This isn’t just about gender—it’s about the deep, often unspoken ways that qualities like intuition, emotional expression, creativity, and nurturing have been undervalued or even punished across generations.
Maybe you feel disconnected from your own emotions or find it hard to trust your inner knowing. That’s often a sign of this inherited wound. For many, this suppression shows up as shame around femininity or sexuality, or as a struggle to fully embrace your power and sensitivity without guilt or fear. Healing this trauma means reclaiming those parts of yourself and your lineage that have been silenced, and learning to hold space for your whole self—mind, body, and spirit.
Emotional Signs of Ancestral Trauma include:
Deep, inaccessible grief
Rage, shame, or guilt around expressing emotions or femininity
Pervasive sense of disempowerment or invisibility
Feeling cursed or burdened by family legacy
Persistent distrust and hopelessness
Inherited feelings of terror, hatred, or disgust toward self or others
Difficulty trusting your own intuition or inner voice
Unconscious self-sabotage, especially in relationships or creativity
Fear of loss, abandonment, or rejection
Struggle to fully embrace vulnerability or sensitivity
Impending sense of doom or constant anxiety
Feeling lost, disconnected from your soul or authentic self
Burdened by a deep sense of injustice or unfairness
Difficulty setting healthy boundaries or asserting yourself
Suppressed anger or frustration that feels “wrong” to express
Shame or confusion around sexuality and body image
Feeling unseen or unheard, especially in emotional needs
Resistance to receiving care or nurturing
Chronic feelings of loneliness or isolation
Inner conflict between strength and softness
Difficulty expressing creativity or passion freely
How Forgiveness Can Break the Cycle of Ancestral Trauma and Set You Free
Forgiveness is one of the most powerful tools you can use to heal ancestral trauma. It’s not about excusing what happened or pretending the pain wasn’t real. Instead, forgiveness is about freeing yourself—and your family line—from the weight of old wounds that have been passed down through generations.
Maybe you’ve experienced feelings of abandonment or neglect from a parent. It’s hard to carry that pain, but what if that parent was also hurt by their own parents in similar ways? When you start to forgive not just your parent but also the generations before them, you begin to break the cycle. You’re no longer carrying the same burden of anger, shame, or resentment that shaped their lives—and yours.
Forgiveness in this kind of healing can look different for everyone. It might mean forgiving an ancestor who made painful choices, even if those choices hurt your family. It could mean letting go of bitterness toward someone who harmed your lineage long ago, someone you never even met. Sometimes, it’s about forgiving yourself for holding onto that pain or for the ways you’ve reacted to it.
But here’s the thing: forgiveness isn’t something you can force or rush. It’s a process that takes time, patience, and kindness toward yourself. Trying to just “decide” to forgive without really feeling it can actually hold you back. You have to feel the pain, understand it, and then gently work your way toward letting it go.
When you do, you create space for something new—a chance to heal deeply, to reconnect with your true self, and to rewrite the story your family has been living for generations. Forgiveness isn’t just a gift to your ancestors; it’s a gift to yourself and the future generations who will come after you. It’s how you break free and start living a life rooted in peace, love, and freedom.
Somatic Signs of Ancestral Trauma
Recurring nightmares or dreams sometimes linked to ancestral memories
Dissociation, depersonalization, and feeling disconnected from your body, especially your legs or womb
Difficulty grounding or staying present in your emotions long enough to heal
Overwhelming fatigue or shame when feeling emotions
A sense of being held back by forces beyond your control, including beliefs in ancestral or family curses
Struggling to make sense of bodily sensations or life experiences
Blockages in the root space, solar plexus and throat chakras, affecting your sense of self and self-expression
A frozen, trapped inner child that feels unreachable, rejected, or ashamed when approached
Tight, stuck fascia holding ancestral memories throughout the body
Bones carrying ancestral trauma through biochemical processes; unresolved charge can contribute to conditions like osteoporosis and internal breakdown
Feeling as if you are reliving ancient pain that isn’t your own, with grief and fear that feel timeless and overwhelming
A deep, wordless sense of hopelessness and being stuck in ancestral wounds that collapse time within the body
Spiritual Signs of Ancestral Trauma
Feeling a block, corruption, or darkness within your roots and ancestral lineage
Energetic enmeshment with a parent, absorbing their pain and struggles
A strong connection to a specific historical period or culture, mixed with pain or sadness
Recognizing recurring family patterns of behavior or thought passed down through generations
A deep sense of responsibility or duty to heal your family line
Feeling older or wiser than your parents, as if called to guide or save them
Sensations of lightness in your legs paired with feelings of being chained or restricted
Disconnection from your true purpose or feeling stuck in a career that doesn’t align with your gifts
Repeatedly drawing in the same life cycles without understanding why
Difficulty connecting with your higher self or accessing inner guidance and wisdom
Experiencing scarcity, financial lack, or feeling held back without clear reasons
Feeling disconnected from your cultural or ethnic heritage, with a desire to heal this divide
Discovering “dark” ancestors in your ancestral field that call for healing
Feeling threatened or overwhelmed by the vibrational forces in your ancestral lineage
A sense of shallow, corrupted roots tied to parental turmoil or family chaos
Disgust or rejection toward your own roots or lineage
Blockages in your crown chakra and third eye, limiting inspiration and spiritual insight
Experiencing a heavy, dense energy field with dark streaks in your energetic channels
Feeling a heavy womb and difficulty creating or expressing feminine energy, despite healing efforts
A strong desire to connect with your ancestors and ancestral traditions but uncertainty about how to begin
A profound sense of disconnection from your lineage and struggle to find your place in the world
How Ancestral Trauma and Fear Block Your Root Energy
Ancestral trauma often lodges itself deep within your energetic system, and one of the primary places it settles is in the root space—sometimes called the root chakra or the energetic foundation of your body.
This root space is where your sense of safety, stability, and belonging is anchored.
When ancestral trauma is present, it can create a heavy energetic blockage here, and fear is usually at the core of that blockage.
From an energetic perspective, fear acts like a lock on your root space. It’s the fear that your ancestors carried—fear of survival, abandonment, rejection, or persecution—that gets passed down and stored in this foundational energy center. When this fear remains unresolved, it disrupts your ability to feel grounded and secure in your body and in the world around you.
Why does this matter?
Because your root space is intimately connected to your nervous system. When fear blocks this area, your nervous system can stay stuck in a heightened state of alert—like it’s constantly scanning for danger. This keeps you trapped in survival mode, where your body is on edge, your energy feels scattered or stuck, and your ability to relax and feel safe is compromised.
Without a clear, open root space, grounding becomes difficult. Grounding is the process of connecting fully to your body and the earth, feeling stable and centered. But fear in the root space makes you feel unsteady, disconnected, or even “adrift.” This disconnection can show up as anxiety, restlessness, or difficulty managing stress because your nervous system doesn’t have a solid foundation to regulate itself.
Healing ancestral trauma in the root space means gently releasing that inherited fear and clearing the energetic blockages. When you do this, you help your nervous system shift out of constant fight-or-flight and into a state of calm and balance. You begin to feel more anchored in your body, more secure in your life, and more able to show up as your fullest, most grounded self.
In this way, working with the root space is essential—not just for healing your ancestral wounds but for reclaiming your sense of safety, belonging, and peace in the present moment.
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How Ancestral Rituals, Culture, and Language Heal Generational Trauma
Reconnecting to your ancestral rituals, culture, and language can be a deeply powerful way to heal ancestral trauma because it helps restore a sense of identity, belonging, and continuity that trauma often disrupts. When trauma is passed down through generations, it can fracture your connection to your roots, leaving you feeling disconnected, lost, or fragmented. Re-engaging with the traditions and languages of your ancestors offers a way to reclaim what was taken or suppressed, grounding you in a lineage of resilience, wisdom, and survival.
For example, participating in ancestral rituals—whether it’s a ceremony, storytelling, or specific cultural practices—creates a safe container where you can honor your ancestors’ experiences, express grief, and celebrate survival. These rituals often involve symbolic acts that help externalize and process emotions that may feel overwhelming or stuck inside. This can feel especially healing if your family’s trauma involved loss, displacement, or cultural erasure, as it creates a bridge back to a collective memory and shared strength.
Language is another key piece. Language carries not just words but ways of seeing the world, expressing emotions, and understanding relationships. When ancestral languages have been lost or suppressed—often through colonization or forced assimilation—relearning or reconnecting with them can restore a vital part of your identity and help heal the rupture trauma caused. For instance, learning traditional songs, prayers, or even everyday phrases can awaken a sense of belonging and pride, and reconnect you to your ancestors’ worldview.
From a trauma-informed perspective, this process is about safety and empowerment. Reconnecting with culture and rituals must happen at your own pace, in ways that feel supportive rather than overwhelming. It’s okay to start small—maybe by lighting a candle in honor of your ancestors, learning a simple phrase in your ancestral language, or listening to stories from elders. These acts can gradually build a deeper connection and provide grounding, helping regulate your nervous system by fostering feelings of safety, continuity, and being held within a larger story.
Accessing Your Cosmic and Elemental Ancestors Through Ancestral Healing
Ancestral healing isn’t limited to just the recent generations you can name or remember—it can also open a doorway to your most ancient ancestors, reaching far beyond your family tree into the cosmic and elemental realms. These ancient ancestors aren’t just human beings; they include the primal forces of nature, the stars, the earth, and the very elements that shaped life itself. When you engage in ancestral healing on this deep level, you tap into a vast web of wisdom and energy that connects you to the origins of existence.
Think of it this way: your lineage is not only a line of flesh and blood but also a thread woven into the fabric of the universe. The cosmic ancestors are those star-beings, celestial forces, and universal energies that influenced your soul’s journey long before your current family was formed. By accessing this cosmic ancestry, you begin to understand your place in a much larger story—one that transcends time, space, and even physical form. This connection can bring profound perspective, reminding you that your soul carries ancient wisdom and resilience from the very beginnings of creation.
On the other hand, elemental ancestors are the spirits and energies of the earth—fire, water, air, and earth itself—that have always been part of human life and survival. These elemental forces are alive within you and your lineage, shaping not only your physical body but your energetic makeup as well.
Healing ancestral trauma with the help of elemental ancestors means reconnecting with the grounding power of the earth, the cleansing flow of water, the transformative energy of fire, and the freedom of the air. These elements can support your healing by restoring balance and harmony in your energy field.
When you work with these ancient layers of ancestry, you’re not just healing personal or family wounds—you’re aligning with the fundamental energies that sustain life itself. This kind of healing invites you to reclaim your original wholeness, the deep connection to the cosmos and the earth that is your birthright.
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How to Heal Ancestral Trauma
Ancestral healing is about giving yourself what you never received—and what many generations before you never had the chance to receive either. You are the golden link in your family’s chain, carrying the energy of those who came before: their wounds, their struggles, but also their strength and resilience. When you commit to healing, you’re not just transforming your own life—you’re shifting the vibration of your entire ancestral line. The healing energy flows through you, breaking long-held patterns and opening the way for freedom and wholeness. You become the bridge between past and future, the catalyst for change that rewrites the story for yourself and generations to come. Your healing is sacred work—one that honors your ancestors and creates a legacy of restoration and hope.
Ancestral trauma is often unconscious and our mind only has access to some murky second hand stories, for example, what your mother told you about the time she was pregnant or how her childhood was. You will have to piece alot together from your somatic experience. This requires a depth of interoception that often comes later on in your somatic healing journey. Interoceptive depth allows you to make sense of the information that every impulse and sensation is carrying through your body. This is how you make the unconscious conscious, by feeling your body and womb and the stories and messages they hold.
Once you are feeling deeply enough into your body there needs to be both structural work on the spine and also organ healing work that facilitates the release and reintegration of somatic charge and heavy emotion. The nervous system layers that have build up survival patterns and responses need to be unravelled and released from the system, creating more space and deeper grounding. The roots need to be healed and recalibrated to go deeper into the field of the ancestry and also the earth.
This healing process requires us to have developed a foundation of self-compassion. This is why we often do ancestral healing work after having already been on a long personal healing journey. If the foundation of self love is not there, if you are not convinced about your healing work and your purpose and why it matters, you will either not go deep enough or you will get triggered by deep healing work and will begin to resist your own release process. We must learn to release patterns of identity structures that have been passed down through generations and replace them with love instead. By doing this, we can begin to transform ourselves for the better and create a healthier future for those who come after us.
Because we carry vibrational imprints from our ancestors in our personal field, it is essential to heal these imprints which can come in many forms including subtle and unconscious belief systems. Rather than just repair and restoration an integral somatic and energetic based healing journey can invoke resolution., purpose, deeper compassion, profound existential meaning and spiritual reconnection. A rebirthing into a higher frequency field is also required. In order to heal ancestral trauma and connect with the gifts of healing and deep holding and support that we get through ancestral connection, we all need to undergo a deep rebirthing process that raises our vibrational frequency. This process involves healing, releasing old patterns, beliefs, and wounds that we inherited from our ancestors that play through our nervous system and energy body, and accessing the higher consciousness and wisdom that is available to us. As we do this, we begin to unravel the gifts and power that have been passed down to us through our lineage, and can use them to support our own healing and growth. This process is a powerful tool for connecting with our ancestors and reclaiming our heritage, and can help us to create a brighter future for ourselves and for future generations.
Benefits of Ancestral Healing
Improve your physical health and wellbeing: Ancestral healing has the potential to alleviate physical symptoms that have been passed down genetically or developed as a result of inherited emotional patterns. By addressing the root causes of these symptoms, individuals can experience relief and a greater sense of wellbeing. For example, chronic pain or illness may be linked to ancestral trauma or emotional patterns that have been passed down through generations. By engaging in ancestral healing, individuals can work to release these patterns and improve their physical health.
Release of inherited beliefs that sabotage you: Transforming ancient and unconscious belief systems from the inside out creates space for healthier and more positive meanings to emerge. This transformation not only affects individuals, but also future generations and communities. As we release old patterns and embrace new beliefs, we create a ripple effect of healing and positive change. By healing ourselves, we can help heal the world around us. A review of 19 studies on the intergenerational transmission of trauma found that trauma exposure in one generation was associated with increased risk of trauma in subsequent generations.
Understand your family history: Exploring ancestral trauma and patterns can help individuals develop a deeper understanding of their family history and strengthen their connection with their roots. By delving into the past, individuals can uncover hidden truths and stories that have been passed down through generations, and gain a greater appreciation for their cultural heritage. This understanding can provide a sense of grounding and belonging, and help individuals navigate their present and future with more confidence and purpose. A study conducted by Teresa Belton and Esther Priyadharshini found that young people who knew their family history had higher levels of resilience and a stronger sense of identity than those who didn't.
Increase your self compassion: Ancestral healing enables us to come to terms with the past, understand why our needs were not met, and how patterns of disconnection led to great injustice. It provides insight into the bigger picture, which can be particularly helpful when we are seeking answers for our pain. Through this process, we can find a sense of peace and closure, and begin to move forward with greater clarity and understanding.
Experience deep inner joy: Ancestral healing can help us to feel into higher frequencies such as joy, which may have been numbed by ancestral trauma. As we release the patterns of trauma that have been passed down through generations, we create space for more positive emotions and experiences. By addressing the root causes of our pain and suffering, we can unlock our full potential and experience a greater sense of wellbeing. Ancestral healing can also help us to connect with our true selves and embrace our innate gifts and talents. By tapping into these higher frequencies, we can experience greater joy, fulfilment, and purpose in our lives.
Know your self worth and purpose: Ancestral healing is a potent and transformative process that can reveal a deeper purpose, provide a sense of self-compassion and empowerment, and release individuals from generational conditions. Through this process, individuals can experience liberation, a new beginning, and a greater understanding of their own value and worth. By becoming the new ancestors and lifting the ancestral curse, individuals can embark on a deeper spiritual journey and connect with their soul and inherent purpose.
Develop true authenticity: Embracing deep ancestral healing requires individuals to engage in deep reconstruction of existential meaning, self-perception, and purpose. This transformative process leads to greater authenticity and resilience. Without repairing our roots and understanding our ancestral heritage, we can become self-centered and seek validation from external sources. In other words, our sense of self is incomplete until we connect with our ancestry and understand our roots.
Heal your children and inspire the next generation: Ancestral healing has the potential to break the cycles of chronic illness and trauma that are passed down from generation to generation. By healing ancestral patterns, individuals can create a healthier legacy for future generations, consciously bringing new life into the world. The over-reliance on synthetic medication and a lack of addressing trauma and toxicity have resulted in over half of US children suffering from chronic illness. ADHD affects 1 in 10 children, depression affects 4 in 10, asthma affects 1 in 12, and 1 in 5 are obese. It is our responsibility to address these issues and create a better future for our children. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, which looked at the impact of childhood trauma on health outcomes, found that individuals who had experienced ACEs were more likely to have chronic health conditions, mental health issues, and engage in risky behaviours.
Finding the Right Healer for Ancestral Lineage Repair
As a healer, I hold a deep knowing of the cycles of death and rebirth—not just in the physical sense, but within the subtle energy realms where transformation happens. I tune into the intricate vibrations within a person’s energy field, sensing how stagnant or trapped energy affects their nervous system, emotions, and even their body’s structure. In this sacred space, I call upon the wisdom and support of ancestors to assist in transmuting heavy energies, helping to dissolve what no longer belongs and making room for new, life-affirming patterns to emerge.
Clients often feel a tangible shift as the weight of ancestral burdens lifts, their nervous system begins to settle, and their energy reorganizes into a freer, more vibrant flow. For many, this is the first time they truly sense the presence of belonging, support, and unconditional love from their lineage.
My role is to be both the steady container and the guiding force—a grounded presence that holds space with compassion and strength. I navigate the delicate dance between the client’s physical impulses and the deeper spiritual currents calling them home. With careful attunement, I witness what is breaking down and what is being rebuilt, tailoring the process to their unique level of awareness and readiness.
Through this work, I help clients reclaim their power by releasing ancestral patterns that have kept their nervous systems in survival mode. Together, we transmute old energies, rewire limiting beliefs, and reorganize the nervous system so they can step into a life of healing, connection, and profound transformation.
Some Books to Read on Ancestral Healing
Here are five highly recommended books on ancestral healing that explore the impact of generational trauma and offer insights and practices for healing:
“It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle” by Mark Wolynn
A foundational book that explains how trauma can be passed down through generations and offers practical tools to identify and heal inherited wounds.
“The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” by Bessel van der Kolk
While not exclusively about ancestral trauma, this classic explores how trauma affects the body and mind, providing essential understanding for healing inherited trauma.
“Healing Ancestral Karma: Transform Your Family Tree” by Dr. Rita Louise
This book delves into the spiritual and energetic aspects of ancestral healing, offering guidance on how to release negative family patterns.
“Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma” by Peter A. Levine
A seminal work on trauma healing that includes insights into how trauma is stored in the body, relevant for understanding and working through ancestral trauma.
“Ancestor Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing” by Daniel Foor
Focused on practical rituals and ceremonies to connect with and heal ancestral wounds, blending indigenous wisdom with contemporary healing practices.
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What My Clients Say
"I could feel when the work was being done at the root. such an acute pain in 2 symetrical spots at the lower back. When I released, it felt a band come out from under the two spots of pain and hugged my back upwards and the words ''I am here now'' came back to me. Again with the parental imagery. The bands felt like my inner mother and father. I felt inside my own bones, my cells were smiling in peace.I felt the bottom of my spine release a wave of energy up through me. I felt like I was fully able to release trauma in my root space.I can still feel the energy all around me."
"For the first time, I admitted to myself that I have hated where I’ve come from. Realizing I’ve spent most of my life trying to be separate from my family, my ancestors. Desiring to carve a new path separate from them but I realized I am a part of them and they are a part of me. It brought up a lot of grief and I’m still in the process of forgiving myself. The practices, and content helped me to feel this and to have the courage to admit it. Opening myself to see the beauty, the gifts of where I’ve come from by accepting what I have chosen to hide from all my life is going to be a journey but I am so grateful to continue this work. I feel a strong desire to continue exploring my ancestral line, what it feels like to accept their love and support and also what it means to partner with them to bring healing to myself and my family line. This piece feels really big to me and being in this community has given me the courage to be honest and lean into more compassion. My Heart has found comfort in the commonalities that we share, to not feel isolated and separate has been really important to me"
"We worked out the most darkest and deepest fears holding in my system. The maternal line broke up and learned the most important lesson: to love myself and to forgive! By weaving in my divine female and divine male side I have showed my own kingdom and loving myself so deep within my family. I trust myself so much, getting the deep roots and exploring without the mental processing what my heart and Womb Room telling me. To stay so still is the freedom, which I always searched for in my whole life. Safas’ work to help myself to process is so deep. I‘ve never met somebody so serious and specific with this huge open heart like her. Her belief in humanity and her power to transform is unique! Now I am talking the whole resources to create my daily life, my mindsets, my Cranio-sacral work and my love in relationships. What a life. Wow! I feel so gifted and everything make so sense!"
Ready to Heal Ancestral Trauma?
Ancestral healing is about giving yourself what you never received—and what many generations before you never had the chance to receive either. You are the golden link in your family’s chain, carrying the energy of those who came before: their wounds, their struggles, but also their strength and resilience. When you commit to healing, you’re not just transforming your own life—you’re shifting the vibration of your entire ancestral line. The healing energy flows through you, breaking long-held patterns and opening the way for freedom and wholeness. You become the bridge between past and future, the catalyst for change that rewrites the story for yourself and generations to come. Your healing is sacred work—one that honors your ancestors and creates a legacy of restoration and hope.
If you’re feeling the weight of ancestral trauma and are ready to begin the journey toward healing and freedom, know that you don’t have to do it alone. Healing these deep-rooted patterns takes courage, support, and guidance—and I’m here to help you every step of the way. Whether you’re seeking to understand your family history, release emotional and physical burdens, or reconnect with your true purpose, together we can uncover the wisdom and strength within your lineage. Reach out to me today to start your transformative journey toward healing, empowerment, and a future unburdened by the past. Your ancestors’ stories don’t have to define you—let’s rewrite your legacy together. Book a consultation call with me today