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Patricia Kathleen Robertson
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Connect With Your Ancestors: Transforming the Transgenerational Trauma of Your Family Tree Exploring Systemic Healing, Inherited Emotional Genealogy, Entanglements, Epigenetics and Body Focused Systemic Constellations
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BookBaby
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9781543912920
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Connect With Your Ancestors provides hope for anyone frustrated with a lack of answers for their symptoms, conditions and repetitive life challenges. Do you experience unexplainable fears; ungrounded feelings of grief, anger or shame; addictions; relationship challenges; anxiety or depression; burnout or chronic health conditions? These are some of the ways that descendants carry transgenerational trauma for their parents, grandparents and ancestors. If you repeatedly explore different medical treatments, therapies or alternative healing techniques, yet remain stuck in life in some way; there is a strong likelihood that you are entangled with someone or something in your family system that is emotionally unresolved. My family system had plenty of transgenerational trauma to address and yours might too. War, immigration, displacement, family tragedy, birth trauma, adoption, exclusion or religious persecution are some transgenerational trauma experiences that transmit from generation to generation. If you know little about your ancestors, then the transgenerational trauma has likely been silenced. Silence is a profound carrier of transgenerational trauma, with family secrets or traumatizing experiences taking on lives of their own. This trauma lives on in the unconscious body of family members waiting to be addressed, becoming more powerful with each generation of silence. This book is a compilation of blog entries (aka small essays) on topics of transgenerational trauma and systemic healing. It engages with the insight that is found through systemic and family constellations, emphasizing the need for energetic body focused systemic healing approaches. It is the first in a series of books that will be made available shortly on numerous systemic healing topics. Connect With Your Ancestors reflects on ways to recognize transgenerational trauma and body focused ways to address it, so that it doesn't have to pass down to your children and grandchildren.
INTRODUCTION
The journey I am currently travelling gained greater intensity when I was twelve years old. My two aging grandmothers sat with me around their respective kitchen tables in rural and small town Saskatchewan and shared with me all the family lineage that they had gathered. I carefully copied every detail they shared onto long scrolls of paper I had created by hand, taping on new pages as they were needed. I was fortunate that they had plenty to share and it set me off on a trail I couldn’t possibly imagine at that time, like a detective with an exciting mystery to solve and a few hot clues. The twists in the family ancestry continue to present themselves today and the mystery is far from solved. I still have those original scrolls. I was fascinated with All My Relations, both the paternal lines and all the many fascinating maternal lines. I knew that the deep connection I had to my past, with the long line of women and men behind me, was a great resource in my life when the going got tough. I always have a strong sense that I am part of a greater whole – a greater system. The rapid advancement and increased usage of the internet throughout the world this past decade has taken my genealogical findings to great heights. The number of family history websites has exponentially gathered the people of the world into a much smaller interconnected community. At some point, it occurred to me that all the family history buffs in the world are searching for healing for their ancestral family systems. I have gathered knowledge about my family system beyond anything I had every hoped to know. Today my journey, which includes traditional genealogy, emotional genealogy and genetic genealogy, has gathered thousands of ancestors and hundreds of my grandmothers and grandfathers. I honour each life through acknowledgement and respect, knowing that a little piece of each one of them carries on within me. I honour and accept their trials and tribulations. I honour each destiny and eachfate.
Along with my genealogical journey, I exponentially expanded my awareness and my worldview the past five decades by travelling to sixty countries, some many times over, enjoying the beauty of all the wonderful continents on planet Earth. My first big trip was to Anchorage, Alaska when I was fourteen years old. I won the honour of representing Canada with three other young Rangers (members of the Girl Guide organization) at a two-week backpacking trip with dozens of American Girl Scouts from many different states. That trip opened my heart to the world and I yearned to
