5 ways to break ancestral trauma

Your ancestry is patiently waiting for you to take your place, to step into your destiny and accept the gift of this life fully.

You are a unique individual. Everything about you is completely one-of-a-kind from your fingerprints to the way your DNA expresses itself to your gifts and personality. However, as unique as you are, you are also the product of a long line of people that have come before you and everything that they experienced also lives in your cellular memory. We inherit our parents and grandparent's stress responses and unhealed emotional wounds and unfulfilled dreams.

What is Ancestral Trauma?

When a person experiences a traumatic event, which is a guarantee for a human being only differing by its perceived impact and type, they are changed forever. Trauma changes us on a cellular level, as well as behaviorally. So, while you may have never met or even seen a photo of great-great-great grandmother Mildred, that traumatic experience or incredibly challenging and harsh life she endured lives in you cellularly, energetically, behaviorally. Her genetic expression was altered and the emotional and mental coping mechanisms she adopted were also passed down through the lineage.

Family Disease Patterns

“It runs in the family,” isn’t a concretely sealed fate. Things run in the family until someone is brave enough to address the really old elephant in the room. Types of physical health challenges, addictions, behavioral characteristics, and more do run in families and they run in families because of ancestral trauma being passed through the lineage both genetically and behaviorally.

Family Constellation work is extremely powerful in healing ancestral trauma. When working with a facilitator, either in a group or 1-1, you will release what doesn't belong to you, own what does and disentangle unhelpful/burdensome energetic ties. 

Here are five ways to begin to break the legacy of ancestral trauma in your lineage:

Your ancestors want you to excel. You are their dream come true and the answer to their prayers. It can feel like a betrayal sometimes when we choose a “new” way, a more nourishing way. We unconsciously hold ourselves back out of loyalty to our ancestors. Yet, this is the work they desperately wanted to begin and whether it was shame, a lack of access to resources, the time they lived in, or more, they didn’t get to actualize the wholeness that it is in your heart.

Do this work for yourself and to have the greatest experience of life possible and do it for those that have come before you.

Work with our founder, Nina Mongendre 1-1, she is trained in family constellation work and inherited trauma therapy, more information at www.ninamongendre.com. She is also the author of Inner Child & Beyond, a journey to transform how your childhood and your lineage live in you.