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