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Family Secrets & Patterns After World War II

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We are living through a period of years where many things are coming to the light that were previously hidden in the darkness. It will be up to each of us to choose whether or not to look at these things and process and heal them within ourselves or to push them down, deny, ignore, and create more suffering for ourselves. One of these themes coming to light are family secrets, lies, and patterns after World War II.

Within each family, it has been said, one person was born to step up and heal the ancestral lineage. Sometimes this person is not born into a family but marries or is adopted into the family. I have had experience being the one born into my lineage to step up, speak out, and heal, and also to marry into a seriously traumatized family where no one stepped up yet the in-law ancestors made their presence known to me. Sometimes this brought me to my knees in grief and pain and other times I told them to go away. Please know that when you marry into a family, you still have the choice of whether or not to take on the in-laws and your spouse’s family trauma and secrets.

The Returning Veteran

As I explored my own war-related family patterns and secrets, especially over the last year, my Navy grandpa (died 1964) said I needed to start looking into what the programming and manipulation was of the veteran and the public upon the return of veterans after the war. Grandpa keeps telling me the story I think I know, which changes with the additional information I receive periodically, is not the whole story. Not his whole story or the whole story of our family. There are still many layers for us to heal. This led me to ask several questions.

  • What were families and veterans told?
  • What were they not told?
  • Where did this information appear?
  • Who had access?
  • How did families with parents who could not read or write (well or at all), obtain vital information?
  • How did the families process this information to help the veteran readjust to civilian life after the war?
  • Did my family know about this information? How did my grandma deal with her veteran husband’s return and war wounds? How did my dad and uncles deal with it?
  • How did their ability and inability to process what happened during and after the war affect me and my kids? How did the denial, shame, anger, and grief of what happened affect how I was raised? My beliefs? How I raised my kids?

What Was Available?

As I began my initial research, I discovered you can use online newspaper sites, choose your city or closest city, and dive into keywords to see what families and returning veterans were told.

Keywords like: returning veteran, returning soldier, veteran readjustment, GI bill, military readjustment, soldier to civilian, and other similar terms that relate to a veteran returning.

One thing to keep in mind as you read these articles, is they were written in the 1940s. Attitudes about men’s and women’s roles were very different. The programming at the time was for veterans to Come home, rebuild, get married, go to school, get a job, start a family, forget and shut up about your war experience.

For families the programming was a lot of wives be a good support to your husband, take care of his needs, be the perfect wife/mother, don’t ask questions, have more children, stay at home (especially if you were out in the workforce supporting the war effort).

These are a few examples of the cultural programming, not only in the U.S. but worldwide. However, this article focuses on the U.S.

To better understand the family patterns, lies, and secrets within each of our families after the war, we need to know what the programming and manipulation of people was, or propaganda if you like that term better. Once we better understand what the public was told, we can begin to dissect our family patterns, seeing them for what they are, not what we imagined them to be.

Resources to Start Your Exploration

Newspapers are a great resource because we can see exactly what was published for the public at the time veterans were returning and women had to leave the workforce, in many cases.

You can also read books that were written during and after the war for returning veterans and their families. I do question whether or not my grandmother would have known about the books I’ll list here and if she even had time to read them while raising a family, working, and taking care of her parents as needed. It feels she was more likely to read the newspaper or talk to the other wives at the butcher or baker.

Psychology for the Returning Serviceman. An Infantry Journal publication prepared by a Committee of the National Research Council. You can still get some of these as first editions. They are small books that cover a lot of information.

Soldier to Civilian. Problems of Readjustment by George K. Pratt, M.D. 1944.

Veteran Comes Back by Willard Waller. 1944.

All three of these books are also on Internet Archive if you like PDF files. I prefer to hold the books and was able to get first edition copies. They are extremely informative and have given me a new perspective on my grandparent’s lives after the war.

You can also read my article with journal prompts on Questions to Explore Your Family Patterns.

What books or articles have you read that helped you better understand how a veteran readjusted to civilian life? Please share in the comments.

Are you ready to start your healing journey?

Are you ready to begin untangling and looking at your family’s war trauma? Or any other family trauma and patterns that have affected your life? If you would like assistance in this, contact me at info@wwiirwc.com to ask how I can help you. I use facilitation packages of 1, 3 or 5 hours to work with clients as we explore their genealogy and military histories, to find the patterns, and do energy healing together.

Are you ready to heal your past to live a fuller, more vibrant life with more possibilities?

© 2021 Ancestral Souls

Exploring Chosen Trauma

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For a couple of years I have been studying war trauma, inherited trauma, why people do re-enactment of wars in the U.S. and overseas, and why in the U.S. or overseas we commemorate every year all things WWII or 9/11 or any mass trauma event. One big question keeps emerging, do these things continue the trauma energy and transmit to more people or does it heal?

We know that continued repetition of images, sound bytes, and videos of mass trauma events just hold the trauma in place. Sometimes reactivates it in people. Being aware of how these repetitive things also trigger our core wounds and old family wounds, and may create new wounds and trauma in the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual energy bodies, I question it even more.

If we begin with re-enactment anywhere in the world, I can say I’m no stranger to seeing living history enacted in the U.S. or seeing European WWII re-enactment. I was in a long relationship with someone who participated. I’ve been to events. My perspective on re-enacting changed many times over the last 10 years as a result. But that nagging question of does it heal and educate, or does it harm in that it perpetuates the mass trauma energy? You can take these questions and ponderings and apply it to any living history anywhere in the world.

The more I study trauma from any war, inherited trauma or multi-generational trauma or transgenerational trauma, whichever term you prefer, along with healing the self and ancestors, I have even more questions. In my research recently, a new term showed up, chosen trauma. And I saw a colored thread make its way between this new term and my re-enactment questions and continuing trauma energy questions.

  • How are the traumas our ancestors lived, and died, through, transmitted to their descendants or the collective.
  • What stories do we tell that perpetuates the trauma energy?
  • How does this affect our memories and what we continue to pass on?
  • How does seeing a version of the trauma continue to perpetuate that energy?
  • Who does it harm?

Chosen Trauma

I’m reading a book by Vamik D. Volkan called, The Third Reich in the Unconscious. I’m getting a huge education about the study of transmission of trauma from parent to child to grandchild…….and learning a bit about how Germans dealt with (and did not) their WWII trauma. The first chapters of this book also taught me that in 1942, two psychologists were already studying inherited trauma as it passed from London mothers to children during and after the bombings. We tend to think of more recent studies of Holocaust descendants.

Now, chosen trauma basically means a group or country, choose a trauma to identify with and on an unconscious level (except by (some – often politicians) in charge who manipulate things) the citizens are re-enacting the trauma various ways and holding on to the victim identity, hero identity, or victimizer identity. This re-enactment of chosen trauma can be through storytelling, memorialization, event re-enactment, beliefs passed through children, etc. Volkan adds to this definition that the trauma event happened a long time ago and there are possibly no living people who lived through it. WWII is becoming this, but different countries and cultures have even farther removed trauma events that have become part of their unconscious, never questioned identity.

It can also be explained this way, “The term `chosen trauma’ refers to the shared mental representation of a massive trauma that the group’s ancestors suffered at the hand of an enemy. When a large group regresses, its chosen trauma is reactivated in order to support the group’s threatened identity. This reactivation may have dramatic and destructive consequences.“

This chosen trauma becomes a national identity of sorts or a way to cope with trauma. It can be seen in Holocaust survivors or those living in Israel (which Volkan uses as an example in this book. See his book for a more detailed description. You can also see Wounds into Wisdom by Rabbi Tirzah Firestone for examples).

Dutch Chosen Trauma

I see this in the Netherlands, as one example, where WWII is honored, re-enacted, commemorated every single year. Why is this one mass trauma event held onto so tightly? Especially in a time when we see “racism” and certain lives matter popping up all over the world the last year. Is remembering WWII less culturally destructive and embarrassing than addressing colonization and slavery (as one example)?

It begs the question, when a country and culture is so fixated on being “the best” at honoring or holding onto a mass trauma, it is just a re-traumatization event for those who weren’t there, since very few WWII era folks are alive at this point? I have used the words, “the best at” in regard to the Dutch honoring of our service members because of the EU countries I’ve visited, they have been the ones most dedicated. Or maybe it is a question of paying back a debt since we liberated their country. Dutch people have used that term with me often especially when talking about grave adoption. Could it also be a mixture of collective guilt and shame because they were occupied by the Germans and didn’t and couldn’t fight back in the way they would have liked due to political/military decisions between World Wars? Collective emotions also damage a society when ignored.

It is a national identity (in my observation) that the Dutch are the “best” and “their way is the only way” to commemorate and honor Americans who saved them from German oppression? In fact, a few people over the years have made this belief clear to me. This national identity may also tie into prior historical events/traumas like colonization and slavery, where the Dutch were the “elite”.

9/11 and American Chosen Trauma

We can see a similar chosen trauma in America over the 9/11 event. A smaller number of people were affected by the deaths that occurred, as compared to a world war. Every year on the anniversary, the news and television is filled with mass trauma images of the events of that day. Ongoing lists of names of those who were killed. It is a continual re-traumatization of events to keep people living in fear.

Children are indoctrinated in school about the horrors of 9/11, the changes to the country that were “best for us”, and traumatized through images each year and then it just disappears until the next anniversary.

Does this heal or keep people under the control of fear so they will not question all the rules put in place since then?

Similarly to the Dutch, America has a history of slave trade, although Americans are a more vocal about this history, perhaps because it is more recent. We have museums, exhibits, talks, educating people on colonization and slavery. Yet on the other side of the coin, we also have a lot of societies that people choose to belong to which were part of the colonizer history of this country. We have a lot of societies for descendants of certain wars because in the U.S. society has made that an “elite” or “exclusive” club which of course, not everyone can join or would want to. I do not belong to any of those groups but I do question why people feel the need to join and perpetuate the energy their ancestors inflicted in the world. I wonder, is that part of the old system that will begin to crumble when the world shifts this year and people start questioning why they do certain things or belong to certain groups?

Decontextualized Chosen Trauma History

Today there is this ego and national identity in both countries, that is so decontextualized, most people don’t know why they have these thoughts and feelings about themselves being better than….or why they perpetuate the trauma their culture has chosen to be a part of. (There are a lot of studies on this, My Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem is a good study and how-to heal book on topics of war, slavery, colonization, etc.)

I have wondered for a while, does the re-enactment of WWII (or any war) serve to heal or just continue to re-traumatize people, the energy, the earth where a battle happened, and layer into children and young people today – that they are still victims or victimizers (who reported neighbors, collaborated, etc.) and unconsciously they are trying to heal.

For Europeans, it is an observation from an outsider looking in after living in Europe many years and digesting culture and society, while seeing layers of historical trauma and how they tie together.

No matter where you stand on any of these questions, I feel at this point in global history, these are questions we should be asking ourselves.

  • Why do we continue to play war or having living history that doesn’t heal?
  • Why do we continue to commemorate or memorialize mass trauma events that keep the energy held within our bodies, cultures, cities, land, and collective consciousness?
  • What are the other options to remember so that stop transmitting this energy and instead, we heal and stop the cultural, family, and personal chosen trauma patterns?

In essence – no matter who we are or where we lived, what we commemorate or re-enact, we are all tremendously in need of exploring the patterns and beliefs we have and perpetuate and start healing.

How do you feel about chosen trauma and living history, re-enactment, or commemorations? Do they heal or harm? I am on the fence at this point. I have seen how they might educate and honor those who served or died. I have not seen it act as a way to heal mass trauma. If someone wants to explain how these things heal from their personal experience, I would be interested in hearing their perspective.

I’ve attended commemorations in Europe and in the first years watched 9/11 memorial programs, some many years in a row, and it has been my experience that it doesn’t heal. In Europe, my experience has been basically the same ceremony each year as a way to keep the trauma alive, sometimes with a slight education piece if children attend and read poems or place flowers. Are these just way to make sure the current generation buys into the chosen trauma of the country?

I’m not sure. I still have a lot of questions.

Additional Reading

Regine Scholz: IAGP-Workshop ‘Trauma and Identity’, Sarajevo May 9-11 2014. Lecture May 10, 2014.

There are many studies on Chosen Trauma you can look up. It is an interesting topic to consider especially since the world has been in a mass trauma event for over a year.

Learn more about Vamik D. Volkan.

Are you ready to start your healing journey?

Are you ready to begin untangling and looking at your family’s war trauma? Or any other family trauma and patterns that have affected your life? If you would like assistance in this, contact me at info@wwiirwc.com to ask how I can help you. I use facilitation packages of 1, 3 or 5 hours to work with clients as we explore their genealogy and military histories, to find the patterns, and do energy healing together.

Are you ready to heal your past to live a fuller, more vibrant life with more possibilities?

© 2021 Ancestral Souls

Mental Health of WWII Veterans & Families

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When our veterans returned from World War II, many had invisible wounds. Mental health issues, which ranged from mild to severe. The propaganda and programming of society (in the U.S. and abroad) was to not talk about these possible or diagnosed issues. To let the veteran deal with it on his own and the family to allow whatever happened. There was a lot of familial shame, grief, and anger around veterans mental health. These emotions which led to secrets at the time and which were passed through the generations.

It is interesting to realize that after the war, many families were going through similar things, but the public was basically told to buck up and move on. We can see in books written by Holocaust survivors or children or grandchildren of WWII veterans, that most carry a portion of a story that goes something like this: I didn’t know until I was older that my friends on my block all had fathers who drank or were mean or angry. I thought it was normal to have a father who wasn’t around, who wasn’t emotional, who drank a lot, who beat us…… I didn’t know until I saw a therapist to deal with my issues related to my childhood that many children of veterans had similar PTSD issues.

I am aware that most of the readers of this article can related to all of this information. Not everything may apply to your family and situation, but something might. It might trigger a memory or a story once heard, that raises questions. The trigger might also push something old and dark within you to the surface to be looked at and healed. Please realize that every veteran who returned, came back different. They all had issues to reconcile because you can’t go from being a God fearing, Thou Shalt Not Kill man to a soldier who has killed without changing. Even in families where the children and grandchildren say the veteran was calm, loving, productive, peaceful, etc., beneath that carefully constructed facade likely lied unresolved trauma. It was a rare veteran who had all the tools to come back, readjust, and transmit zero trauma to his family or future generations. You might read my article, Trauma of Being the ‘Bad Guy’ in War if you have not. This addresses some of these issues.

Experiments and Treatments

Downey VA Hospital

During and after World War II, veterans with diagnosed or suspected mental health issues were in large part, used as experiments on techniques, technology, and drugs. This may be hard for some people to believe, but if you had a family member who suffered at all from PTSD, Shell Shock, Combat Fatigue, or whatever term they were labeled with, I invite you to dig into the research. Not only do the books and website recommended below talk about this but if you dive into official medical unit files, you will learn about all kinds of experiments the military ran on veterans while overseas and at home. You should read some of the records I have read. It is shocking.

I often wonder how many diagnoses were given out that were incorrect because the psychiatrists and psychologists of the time did not have enough information. Or perhaps they were under pressure to IGNORE the fact that military service, the trauma endured, the killer men had to be, the death and dying of buddies, created mental health issues. When we ignore what is really happening, it opens up a space to abuse.

On the other side of this coin, we have the spiritual self, the soul, that was also damaged because of war trauma, both was the veteran experienced and what he had to inflict to do his job. It has been documented, especially by Dr. Edward Tick, War & the Soul or Warrior’s Return, were we see the soul fragment and detach from the soldier while he is under extreme stress. Native Americans and African Tribal Culture is explained in the book about how they welcome returning veterans and help them, as a village, bring the soul back to the body. To help the warrior forgive himself and others. The militaries around the world have never taken this approach. It is all about transforming a civilian into a soldier, then a soldier returns and is lucky to get any transition support back to civilian or to deal emotionally, spiritually, physically, and mentally with what he did.

All of these things affected the family that lived with or supported the returning veteran after World War II, and this unresolved, undigested trauma was transmitted to the extended family, the children, grandchildren, and so on. Energy carries even when you keep secrets or tell lies about what happened. Children especially pick up on this energy and will often “fill in the blanks” about what happened, often incorrectly, but still creating trauma in their bodies and energy fields that could have been avoided if people would have been open.

My Experiences

I have had both the experience of hearing secrets and lies about my own family’s war experience and that of European in-laws. Not only did I hear from the living, but also from the dead. My grandfather, great grand uncle, and cousins who died in war have all given clues and told me things that have helped me better understand what my parents went through, why they held certain beliefs and why I held those beliefs. Additionally, why we all carried unresolved trauma.

On the European side, the in-laws are both deceased but have shown up often. The mother in-law to be more specific as she carried so much trauma that she passed to her children which is still unhealed. Often when she shows up it is incredibly intense and sometimes brings me to my knees in grief and tears, pain and anger. There are times I have had to say NO to her and let her work it out or go find someone else to help her. It is not my job to help everyone heal when they show up at the expense of my own health and happiness.

What I have noticed in talking with friends in Europe and living there over the last many years, is Europeans carry a lot of unseen, unspoken, but harmful layers of war trauma. A lot of mental health issues after the war I suspect were never addressed. A lot of people “settling” and marrying someone they may not have if the war had not forced them together in a traumatic circumstance. This isn’t to say there wasn’t love over time, but for many, even in books and accounts we hear today from children and grandchildren of war, they had no one else so they chose who they chose. This also affects people’s mental health in carried energy ways.

How Do We Start To Heal?

Joe and Libbie

We begin by being honest with ourselves about what our family’s war experience was. This doesn’t just go for World War II but every war before and after. All of those experiences created trauma within our families that was passed through the generations.

We attempt to have open and honest conversations with family members about our veteran’s history and experience.

We do the research required to learn more about the veteran’s experience, no matter where it leads us.

We explore the family beliefs, positive and negative patterns that we carry or observe. We look at ways to heal those patterns and negative beliefs so they stop with us. When we heal ourselves, we heal the collective.

We reach out to mental health professionals or intuitive or energy healers to dive deeper into our subconscious. To connect with those who have gone before us to see what messages come through. To bring the dark to light and heal.

This is not easy work and not fun. I have been diving deeply for years, but I can say with certainty, the negative beliefs and patterns are stopping with me. I have noticed that my healing has affected those in my family and those connected to me, even if they do not notice this or are consciously aware. I was chosen for this work. It has changed me in so many amazing ways. I will not stop digging for the “truth” on my healing journey.

Resources to Explore

Use the online newspapers to search for keywords like, veteran mental health, veteran psychiatry, returning veterans mental health, and specific diagnoses.

Blog: Oldfoolrn has many articles on Downey VA Hospital north of Chicago. This nurse gives a lot of great information (and very sad) about how veterans were treated and experimented on after the war.

Psychology for the Fighting Man. What You Should Know About Yourself and Others. An Infantry Journal book, 1944.

A Psychiatric Primer for the Veteran’s Family and Friends by Alexander G. Dumas and Grace Graham Keen. 1945.

Both books can also be found on Internet Archive if you like reading PDFs.

Are you ready to start your healing journey?

Are you ready to begin untangling and looking at your family’s war trauma? Or any other family trauma and patterns that have affected your life? If you would like assistance in this, contact me at info@wwiirwc.com to ask how I can help you. I use facilitation packages of 1, 3 or 5 hours to work with clients as we explore their genealogy and military histories, to find the patterns, and do energy healing together.

Are you ready to heal your past to live a fuller, more vibrant life with more possibilities?

© 2021 Ancestral Souls

Is It Time To Heal Our War Trauma?

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We all carry trauma from our parents, grandparents, model it after our collateral relatives, and even pick it up from others outside the family as we grow up. It does not matter if you lived with your biological parents or adopted parents or step-parents, everyone is affected. Layers of trauma are something no human can be without, unless this is their first incarnation. Trauma is part of what we carry in our souls and physical bodies on this planet. Many people are unaware they carry trauma from their ancestors. They are unaware why they trigger and are hyper reactive in certain situations. Unaware why they rage at the people they claim to love. Unaware why they have panic attacks or want to crawl out of their bodies during certain intense (or not so intense) moments. Much of this can be identified as trauma, even trauma we carry from our childhoods. Some of it can also be connected to our past lives and the trauma we endured as souls in other bodies, times, and places. I have experienced this life and past life trauma triggers, especially when traveling Europe. There have been many studies done on Holocaust survivors and their children and grandchildren identifying inherited trauma. Numerous books have been written, lectures given, and websites created with information. Yet no one is really talking about any other World War II inherited trauma and how it affects us. The focus has been those involved in the Holocaust and primarily Jews. So why, you may ask, should we care about those Holocaust studies if our family history does not contain that aspect? The answer is simple – trauma affects us all and it does not matter if you have a Jewish lineage or any other lineage – we all carry it and there are patterns waiting to be identified so we can heal. Researching those resources will help lead us to our own healing. We can find similarities between our family history and other history if we dive beneath the surface. There are common themes, even outside of WWII, going back in time where mass trauma occurred, that we can connect to, learn from, and heal. So where do we begin if this is new to us? This healing work? I think the first place is to sit with your genealogy and the military research. Look at the trauma events, even beyond WWII (Great Depression, prior wars, dustbowl, immigration, slavery, indentured servitude, sex trafficking, orphans, adoption, etc.) and see the patterns of what negative traits and behaviors have been passed down through the generations. Honestly look at the negative behaviors or issues, illnesses, traits, judgments, beliefs you carry. Where did they come from? We are not born to hate others or be angry or violent or rage. Who did it come from and where did it begin? Let me give you two short examples to consider. Example 1: Son or Grandson of European parents or grandparents who survived WWII and endured hunger, occupation, forced labor, forced or chosen sexual acts, leaving their family, violence both given and received, living with the not knowing if today was your last day on earth or if you would see your loved one again, and having to rebuild. In this example when we look at the children and grandchildren of people in this scenario we might find illness and disease they carry. Body issues, shame, guilt, addiction to sex or drugs or weight, radical life choices, anxiety, depression, guilt, and often a complete shut down or blockage of emotional processing. These people may see nothing in their current life that would explain why some of this is happening, yet when we look at what their ancestors experienced, we often see links between the past and present. Seeing these links we can begin to heal. Example 2: Child or grandchild of American WWII service member who was married with children before leaving to fight. Husband comes back with mental issues but no visible wounds. Wife lived as a single mother for years never knowing if her husband would return. Ended up raising her children alone after he returned. She also dealt with the Great Depression before the war, rationing during the war, fear, shame, guilt at how life was when the war ended. In this case we may see similar patterns and links as the European families but I can say another thing to look for (based on personal experience) is, where are we living the lives our ancestors could not? Or where are we re-enacting their lives at certain moments that is creating more trauma, suffering, guilt, shame, negativity, etc. in our own lives? Looking at my grandparent’s war experience and lives, I can say that after I married a European and he became very ill, I realized I was in part, living my grandparent’s lives. My grandmother had come through several times before I married this man to tell me she wanted me to have the life and love she did not. But because we were so entangled, I also lived through some of the single mother part of her life with a far away husband, health hell and not knowing if he would be dead or alive each day. There is more to this story but you get the idea. I had to be open to looking at their story and my own to untangle and heal. Once I did, I was set free in ways I could not have imagined.

My invitation to you!

Are you ready to begin untangling and looking at your family’s war trauma? Or any other family trauma that has affected your life? If you would like assistance in this, contact me at info@wwiirwc.com to ask how I can help you. I use facilitation packages of 1, 3 or 5 hours to work with clients as we explore their genealogy and military histories, to find the patterns, and do energy healing together. Are you ready to heal your past to live a fuller, more vibrant life with more possibilities?   © 2021 WWII Research & Writing Center

Exploring Collective Trauma in the Family Tree

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In my new course, Trauma in the Family Tree, we will explore four core themes, one of which is collective trauma. What is it? How do we identify it for our ancestors’ lives? How did they cope with it or did they not process it? How much of the collective trauma our ancestors endured was passed through our DNA to us?

In broad strokes we will explore and identify several areas of collective historical trauma for students to work with in their own family histories. Learn more in my video and be sure to subscribe to my mailing list using this link. Subscribers will be the first to hear about registration and receive a discount for the course.

© 2021 Ancestral Souls

Trauma in the Family Tree Course Details

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I’m excited to announce some details about a new course I’m releasing, Trauma in the Family Tree. In this 3 hour course/retreat, I will cover four primary topics in broad strokes.

  1. Trauma as a biographical event.
  2. Collective Trauma and how it impacts us today.
  3. Personal Trauma and exploring how to identify what is ours and what is our ancestors.
  4. Energy healing tools. Many of these will be explored throughout the course to help you tap into the past and heal the present, but additional resources will be provided before we close.

Replays will be available for all sections of the course along with some guided meditations and energy tool videos and worksheets as required.

Registration opens soon for this exciting new course. To learn more and be the first to receive registration details, be sure to subscribe to my mailing list today. Subscribers will receive a discount to this new course. Learn more in my video below!

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Grief in Genealogy & Military Research

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Grief & Loss is a topic we explore in the master class “Your Family’s War Journey”. It is a topic that many genealogists and military researchers should be exploring but do not. I explain why in my new video.

Be sure to subscribe to my channel and you can also find all my services and resources here: https://linktr.ee/jenniferholik

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What is Healing? Why Is It Important in Genealogy & Military Research?

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What is healing? Why does it matter if we explore and do it as we research our family’s past, our military past, and look at our personal journeys?

To learn more about what I offer and how I can help you shift your life and heal your lineage, visit https://linktr.ee/jenniferholik