The systemic impact of colonization influences the lives of all North Americans, and knowledge of the legacy of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools is vital to understanding the reality today. It also impacts the wellbeing of peoples and societies all over the world where colonization was and is a part of…
Epigenetics is a fascinating empirical field of science. Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance is an area of neuroscience and genetic research that has grown rapidly over the past decade. One empirical study after another has created a package of quantifiable evidence to show that the emotional trauma of animals and human beings…
Most regions of the world carry the impact of past trauma and Serbia is no exception. When a trauma is buried within and not openly processed, it is imprinted on the cells of the bodies of those individuals who experienced the event. These old unresolved emotional traumas might travel transgenerationally…
Immigration (Part 3) discusses the transgenerational emotional impact of immigration on individuals, families, and communities. I have just returned from a trip to Germany where I enjoyed my second intensive training in systemic constellations with the faculty of the International Systemic Constellations Association at Bernried, Germany. I followed that with…
Immigration or migration is an emotional time for everyone involved. Family systems carry the emotional wounds and trauma of immigration. Family systems pass on their unresolved emotional trauma to the living descendants to be acknowledged, accepted, addressed, and healed. We suffer consequences physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, psychologically, financially, intellectually, and…
Gaining compassion for the biological parents and their journey in life is key to the wellness of the adopted child. Gaining compassion for self is equally important. This blog series is just as important whether you experienced adoption, the foster care system, or were raised by anyone other than your…
Adoption links four family systems together in their fate and the adopted child is energetically placed in the middle. There is the biological mother and her family system, the biological father and his family system, the adoptive mother and her family system, and the adoptive father and his family system. …
