Let’s take a look at what happens when anger is suppressed or carried down transgenerationally through a family system. Sources of Anger Anger may be the result of feelings of injustice, unfairness, wrongdoing, betrayal, embarrassment, or resentment. Anger that originates in frustration may simmer on the back burner over weeks,…
I woke in the night with the message that trauma is the source. I jotted that down in my journal and fell back to sleep. In the morning I read that message and I let it hang in the air. I soon realized that part of the message that was…
I woke up the other day involved in a chat with cancer. Some days I just wake up knowing what I’m supposed to write about and share with others. I don’t have cancer, but nevertheless, the chat was very informative and I thought I would pass on the messages that…
Your mother was the perfect mother for you. What is your immediate emotional response to that statement? The answer that comes without thought, defensiveness, rationalizing, or intellectualizing will reveal much about where you are along your emotional and spiritual healing journey in this lifetime. Your mother is your source 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…
