10-Day Military Research Challenge Details

The challenge has re-opened at the Ancestral Souls Wisdom School with a welcome video and details on what to expect. Each morning beginning an email will be sent to participants notifying them of the day's topic, video, and worksheet. You are invited to participate daily to more fully explore your family’s military history. The challenge was designed with 20th century wars in mind (WWI, WWII, Korea, & Vietnam) but you can use the questions and tips each day for any war, anywhere in the world. This challenge will not only focus on the service member experience, but also the home front experience.

Often, when we explore our ancestral or personal history, we focus on names, dates, places, and documents. This challenge invites you to go to a deeper level and look at what else those documents and family stories are telling you. Along the way you might also discover a treasure trove of new information.

Each day of the challenge you will be invited to explore three elements of practice, which include Researching, Journaling, and Sharing. My hope is the information you discover will encourage you to continue researching long after the challenge ends. This challenge also builds a foundation for some new classes I’m offering in October during Family History Month, to help you learn even more.

This challenge may also give you new insight into the beliefs, behaviors, patterns, addictions, secrets, lies, truths, and choices your veterans made and also his or her family made throughout their lives. What often happens when we open up to the taboo topics and deeper layers of research, is many questions arise. Questions which may at first have no answers. However, the more we speak with family, do our research, and sit in quiet contemplation with our information, the more answers appear.

It has been my experience that the more I learn about the lives of my ancestors, in historical context, and the choices they made, the better I understand myself. The more I heal. The more those connected to me heal and old family patterns that were destructive, disappear. Those family patterns are replaced with love, connection, wisdom, abundance, and greater possibilities for our lives.

Meet Your Guide on this Journey

Hello! I'm Jennifer!

Spiritual Coach, Intuitive healer specializing in inherited & war trauma, and personal & ancestral healing.

I’m a spiritual coach and an Intuitive healer specializing in inherited & war trauma, and personal & ancestral healing. I’ve been on a conscious personal healing journey for a more than a decade. My journey began over 25 years ago while researching & writing about my family & military history. My military ancestors helped me dive deeper into my personal & ancestral trauma to heal.

Discovering the history of our families allows for family patterns, inherited trauma, & secrets to rise. This provides an opportunity to take a deeper look at our research to allow for healing & closure.

By 2015 my healing journey & military work allowed me to travel in Europe & create a life both there & in Chicago. I became embedded in Dutch society, life, relationships, healthcare, politics, culture, got a deep dive into grief when I became a caregiver to someone I was married to in the Netherlands.  All of that gave me a unique perspective on our world & the layers of trauma we each carry, no matter where we live.

I visited battlefields & burial sites, religious & cultural sites, heard family & war stories, some of which brought me to my knees in grief as I channeled the people telling the stories. I understand context that many people do not. This makes me unique in the way I can help clients heal on both sides of the ocean to explore their personal & ancestral family patterns & war trauma. I have studied & understand genealogy & military records, & what information, secrets, patterns, inherited trauma, feelings, & emotions they may share.

Each experience I had in Europe gave me awareness & puzzle pieces for my healing & the healing of our ancestors & the collective. Puzzle pieces & awareness I can now share with you.

For more than a decade I have studied ancestral lineage healing, energy healing modalities, inherited trauma, PTSD, grief & loss, caregiving, & spiritual modalities. I have also taken a deep dive into my personal and ancestral healing.

I look forward to working with you to heal yourself and your ancestors. We are all connected no matter where we live, what our culture is, what our trauma has been….when one heals, we all heal.

Explore more of my military research work, over six years of articles, record examples, videos, and all the books I've written at the WWII Research & Writing Center.