Calling Our Ancestors: Healing Our Family Trees - A Talk

In 2019 I was asked to write an article for Spiritual Director's International Journal about how I used Spiritual Direction to work with the wounds of my Ancestral family tree. The wounds were the abuse my mom and aunt suffered from their father, my grandfather. I share the article I wrote here. In it are the spiritual steps I have taken over the last 20 years to help clear these ancestral wounds.

** Trigger: I speak just briefly about the original abuse suffered by my family members.

Reviews

Thank you so much for these insights. I’ve been on a similar journey (and we have similar stories too). It was great to hear how you approached your healing and how it also helped your mother’s journey too. Many blessings to you all ✨

Thank you, for the courage to look into the shadows of the past and present.

Thank you so much Shannon. I was so moved by your story. I had to pause a couple of times, to process it all, especially when you talked about working with your mom, helping her, i was almost in tears! I am a bit of an old soul myself. I fully understood you. It was easy listening to you.
I will be listening to more of your work.
You must be a very beautiful soul. 😘💕

I totally LOVE this story. Im hesitant to post my story here and although its different from yours its impacted three generations si far. Very important work you have such amazing insight into. Thank you for sharing this.

Wow. That was incredible, so helpful, so inspiring. Absolutely fantastic loving and practical steps on healing the family tree. I’m blown away! Thank you for this gift.

The one thing that got me was the background music. It seemed out of place, too energetic, distracting, and unnecessary for this talk. Would love to hear a version of this talk without the background music crescendo-ing all the time ❤️

TRIGGER WARNING: about 13-14 minutes into this talk, there is a HP reference. This is just a loving heads-up to those in the lgbtq community who, like me, are extremely derailed by the mention of J.K. Rowling due to her ongoing verbal violence perpetrated against the transgender community. I lovingly ask that if you are triggered by HP references, please try your best to stick with this meditation and finish it. It is so beautiful and so helpful, you will be glad you did!

Thank you for hearing me 🙏❤️✨