
Emotional Signs of Ancestral Trauma
Unresolved ancestral trauma can surface in emotions like persistent anxiety, fear, or even patterns of self-sabotage. It’s like these emotional echoes from the past influencing our present. Recognising and addressing these feelings is a crucial step in the ancestral healing process.
SYMPTOMS & PATTERNS TO LOOK OUT FOR:
- Unresolved emotional wounds from family history affecting present life
- Family history of mental illness, addiction, or detrimental patterns affecting own life
- Strained relationships with family members,
- Disconnected from emotions
- Feelings of shame or guilt
- Depression
- High anxiety
- Feeling of lack, unworthy, not enough
- Deep unspeakable grief
- Repetitive negatives cycles of behaviour and toxic patterns
- Complex grief intertwined with other emotions and events
- Suppressed rage
- Lack of trust
- Low self-esteem
- Frequent unconscious self-sabotage
- Constant expectation of things being taken away
- Never feel safe to open up or be vulnerable
- Unexplained feelings of terror
- Struggle to feel deep gratitude.
- Strange sense of shortened future
- Displaced or disconnected feelings