Clearing Ancestral Trauma For Your Own Healing

Ever wondered why life can feel so heavy without an apparent cause?

Why do we often experience chronic illness, discomfort, and disease without a medical reason?

Why there are trauma patterns that are threaded through families?

Why your story is so similar to that of your ancestors?

In this episode, we begin to unravel these questions and explore what and how ancestral trauma is and its impact on our lives.

Transcript

Welcome to the Embodied Trauma Release podcast where we talk about how we can permanently heal from our trauma and reveal our higher selves.

Hi,

I'm Dr Kate Morgan,

Your host and the founder of Embodied Trauma Release Therapy and an expert in trauma informed womb and fertility medicine.

Moving from surviving to thriving,

This podcast explores how we can permanently release our trauma patterning,

Experiences,

Imprints and responses so that we can go on to live our best life,

Wild and free.

So,

Today's podcast,

We are going to be exploring the beautiful and sacred connection between our experiences on this planet,

In this universe at this time,

How it's linked through to our ancestors and at the moment for this podcast,

We're focusing mainly on our bloodline.

So that can be obviously our maternal and paternal lines,

Those that we are blood related to and how it has been passed down the experiences that they have gone through and maybe have impacted our experiences on this planet,

In this universe at this time.

So we're going to be looking at how their experiences of trauma can be passed down and how the patterning from these traumas,

So looking at what's been going on in their life and seeing how it manifests in our life and the symptoms of this trauma.

So this can be any physical ailment,

Discomfort or dis-ease that we're experiencing within our bodies and within our lives and our trauma responses,

How we respond to traumatic or difficult experiences in our day to day life.

So with this ancestral trauma,

We're looking at our bloodline and we're looking at what we have genetically inherited and so this can go on,

We're not sure yet for how many ancestors and how many generations,

But right now it has been seen that about 14 generations can pass down how we read our DNA and how we experience traumas in our lifetime.

So we're only just beginning to unravel the truth,

The science,

Meat and spirit of how this is passed down and why this is passed down and it is confirming all of the wisdom of our elders that we have so pushed down and have so kept unseen and unheard for so long,

Sort of wiping off as just woo woo,

As just myth,

As just an ideological fantasy to confirm our experiences on this planet and provide the validation,

But it's true and it is valid.

So research is beginning to show that descendants of trauma survivors can carry the physical,

Emotional and spiritual symptoms of their trauma,

That they do not perhaps directly experience it and also the memories of those traumas and this can be stored in our genetic material for 14 generations,

So our ancestral traits that are stored within our DNA and this can provide an explanation as to why someone might have particular illnesses and pains without perhaps a medical cause and it's because it's been passed down from ancestors and also perhaps why someone might have a certain type of skill set without any explanation where they can pick up a particular instrument and just stop playing or remember a book or remember a culture without perhaps particularly a deep scientific reason as to why they have that inherent ability,

That inherent skill set,

Memory and understanding.

We have begun to have a few very important studies and I'll just talk about these very quickly and very swiftly,

But there are genetic changes that have stemmed from the trauma of for example the Holocaust and these Holocaust survivors are able to pass this down to their children and this is called epigenetic inheritance and epigenetics is basically the study of how these events of what's happened to you and your behaviours such as trauma events,

Trauma responses,

Trauma patterning can change the way our genes work and they don't change perhaps the DNA sequence but they basically significantly affect how our body reads that DNA.

And another study shows that girls born to Dutch women who were pregnant during severe famine at the end of the Second World War had an above average risk of developing schizophrenia.

Okay so there is a lot,

There is a big wealth of research and it is something that perhaps it provides validation to those inner knowings,

That inner experience of why we see patterns in our parents that we see within ourselves or we see within our grandparents that we see within ourselves and it's so beautifully wonderful to be able to have this knowledge because this shows and it's black and white that if we can,

The way that we read our DNA can be changed,

We can significantly,

Hugely change the way we live our lives,

The way we experience life,

The way we experience our behaviours and patterns in this lifetime.

We can therefore cut that cord and heal permanently so that we no longer pass down all of this trauma,

All of this baggage and all of this weight and therefore all of the physical illness,

All the physical disease,

All the mental health conditions that may be a pass down.

And I think we're seeing a lot in these generations,

There is so much trauma that has been carried in the past 100 or 120 years,

150 years and the generations now they're struggling.

The weight of those traumas are surfacing,

They're having so many patterns and behaviours that are not theirs that are coming up and surfacing in this lifetime.

That is not your trauma,

That is not your baggage,

But you're carrying it.

And I want you to just let that sink in,

Okay,

This is not your trauma,

It is not your baggage.

If we can change the way our body reads that day and night by healing that trauma,

We can heal ourselves,

We can heal for the future generations of this planet and this universe.

What a responsibility,

What a divine and beautiful responsibility that we have.

I want to just allow you to deeply let that sink in and I want to talk a little bit about my trauma experiences and my ancestral trauma.

I at 8 years old had a very severe eating disorder,

Anorexia nervosa,

Embolemia,

Self harm and depression that left me hospitalised on multiple occasions until my very early 20s.

My mum has had a knee disorder,

My aunt,

My brother,

My nan.

There is so much being carried in my family and it has shocked me in that at first I thought it was particularly nurture rather than nature.

And as I began to experience it more and more,

I realised that no,

This goes way deeper,

This is way more deeply ingrained in our DNA of how am I going to respond to difficult experiences and inheriting responses that means that without that nurture it basically came up and all this molten lava just spilled out and it has been such a huge weight and responsibility and a big query adds to do I want to bring children in this world if I am carrying this genetic makeup.

I am carrying a genetic makeup but I am also carrying the responsibility of being able to change how I read that DNA.

I can change that.

And if I can change that I can change how my children might experience trauma and how they might respond to it.

Okay so I see it time and time again as patterns of trauma response patterns that we might not have witnessed,

We might not have seen,

We might not have heard but we carry and we exhibit that are particularly our parents.

There are people that don't do the self inquiry with their parents and when they begin to explore their bloodline and ask questions and dive deep they see that they are not the first.

It did not begin with you,

It began before you and before them and before them.

This heavy stuff that we are carrying we need to unload it because I think there is a reason why the struggle is so great right now.

Okay there are so many of the generations previous are saying why are these generations struggling so much.

Of course there are so many external factors in the way that we live our life has majorly changed and has a big reason with that.

But it also is much much deeper,

Much much darker,

Much much heavier and stickier and messier than that.

It is one hell of a mess.

It is an absolute shit show because everyone has been just taught how to keep it clean,

Put it under the rug and make sure that appearances with the white picket fence and the perfect family continue forward.

Don't do the work,

Hide it.

Don't do the healing,

Smother it.

If we can smoke it out no one will see the patterns,

No one will see the experiences,

No one will see the traumas and the ugliness and the messiness.

Keep it clean,

Keep it secret and keep it hidden.

Our generations can't keep it hidden anymore that's why it's spilling out.

It's spilling out into one big mess.

God it's such a big responsibility but it's a beautiful one.

It's a beautiful wisdom that we are beginning to learn all this.

So how can we heal our past?

How can we heal the past of our ancestors?

I think it begins with a self enquiry,

Learning as much as we can about our bloodlines as possible.

For some of us it's easier and for some of us it's harder.

Some of us might not know any blood relatives and that can be particularly difficult and particularly traumatic in itself in doing that self enquiry and I think if that's the case it's about finding acceptance and looking in for that intuitive wisdom of what do I feel within me did not start with me?

If I go deep within myself,

If I step within the darkness,

I shut my eyes,

I close the curtains and I go within and I allow my intuitive wisdom to come forward to guide me,

What do I feel did not start with me?

If you do not know your blood relatives or you do and that is a particularly tumultuous relationship and you don't feel you have that ability to ask those questions,

That's okay.

You can also allow your body to be the compass so it's when you stand feet on the floor and you basically ask for the yes signal,

A yes sign and your body should begin to sway forward or back and a good way of being able to kind of confirm this is by saying I am your name or your date of birth and seeing where your body leans and then you can begin to ask questions and see how your body responds because your body knows.

Okay,

The brain sometimes doesn't want to communicate,

The body will.

If you do have the ability to explore with blood relatives,

With siblings,

With parents,

With family members then please do ask as many questions as you can to learn as much as you can about the traumas that have been carried down,

About the experiences of family,

Of what's happened and is the story of your bloodline.

Okay,

And I think that's where it begins is self-inquiry,

Self-inquiry even into ourselves,

Self-inquiry into our relatives,

Self-inquiry into basically the nature of ourselves,

The nature of the human experience.

Okay,

And then I think the second thing is focusing on the all begins of intention going back to intention.

So,

Research has also begun to show that the physical aspects of our DNA strands can be influenced by human intention.

Basically,

We can change our DNA by stepping into a beneficial state of mental,

Emotional and physical balance and harmony and by utilising the breath with intentional positive emotions and I think that intention can unwind the DNA.

I don't think I know.

It can,

Okay.

So,

It can be our DNA molecules and how we read that DNA can be altered through our intention.

When we step into a heart-focused loving state,

When we step into a more focused coherent mode of psychological,

Physiological functioning,

We have a great ability to alter the way that we read our DNA.

Okay,

So it is sitting there with intention,

Focusing on intention and having that guided imagery of almost going into DNA strands and switching it off.

Imagine all of the cells of your body switching off those trauma experiences so that we no longer read that DNA in the way that we carry it forward.

It stops there.

So,

Intention.

The next thing that I will say,

Obviously with the guided imagery,

Is the breath work,

Returning to the breath.

The breath is a guide and a powerful one.

The breath is a teacher but a gentle one.

And we can get that heart coherence by really allowing the breath to be drawn up through the pelvic floor all the way through to our heart,

To your jaw,

To our throat and all the way back down again.

And imagine that coherence in our body opening up that connection building between the root,

The heart and the crown and guiding the breath that way.

I also believe that through really having an embodied practice such as this combined with trauma therapy is what can really heal us.

And it's believing that we can.

Believing that the power and knowing the power and owning the power that we can heal that trauma.

And having a gentleness there,

Okay?

Allow the trauma to come as it wishes.

As it needs to be expressed to come out of the body through movement,

Through breath,

Through shaking,

Through activity.

We need to allow it to have permission to be free from the body,

Free from the cells as it isn't perhaps connected to our soul but the way that it is within the body.

And that's why the body is so important when it comes to a holistic approach to trauma.

And I think that's really important is when we are focusing on the future generations whether you are going to be a parent,

An adoptive parent,

A foster parent,

A parent of ideas,

A parent of creativity.

So it is about what we pass down through next generations and what we birth into this world either through the formation of creating the life of a child or creating the life of ourselves.

Whether we leave on this planet has a life of its own and continues to breed.

So what are we going to leave?

Are we going to leave healthy,

Happy,

Caring,

Beautiful children?

Are we going to leave these beautiful,

Nourishing ideas,

Thoughts and powers,

Our art,

Our soul,

Ourselves?

And how is that going to breed to future generations and clear the trauma?

If you have any questions please,

Please get in touch.

I'm happy to do any questions.

But I want you just as you leave this podcast go back to the heart.

Just allow yourself to go back there.

And allow yourself just to breathe out the sigh of relief that you don't have to carry this.

You don't have to carry this anymore.

This weight,

This heaviness is not yours.

You can put it down.

We no longer need to keep repeating these patterns.

We are learning.

We are healing.

We are growing.

Huge love to all of you.

All of you beautiful,

Beautiful souls that are listening.

Huge love.

And I'll see you next week.

Bye.

Reviews

Interesting thank you 😊