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Perhaps it is only in subsequent generations that trauma can be witnessed and worked through by those who were not there to live it but who received its effects, belatedly, through the narrative, actions and symptoms of the previous generation. ~Marianne Hirsch
Have you asked the hard or uncomfortable questions about your female ancestor? Do you ask family members for the stories that are not kind? Have you only heard negative stories about certain family...
This morning on my Instagram account @coffeewithmyancestors, I gave another journal prompt. I do this during the week often asking questions you normally do not see in family history writing books....
Today on my Instagram account for @coffeewithmyancestors, I gave a writing prompt on FEAR. I asked the question, What are you afraid of?
This is a question I ask myself often and the answer always...
There is a process to letting go of the stories that disempower us and hold us back. That process is different for everyone. After having spent years in my own stories and moving through depression...
Stories can disempower or empower us.
Stories can change us.
Stories can destroy us.
Stories can save us.
Stories have the ability to provide answers, closure, release, and healing.
Those...
Written and Channeled by Jennifer Holik 22 August 2015
It is interesting that while I was channeling souls buried in Lommel Cemetery, a German Cemetery in Belgium, much of the wisdom they impart...
It is vital we each step more into our uniqueness and different and shine our light. It is important to look at the gifts and blessings our ancestors gave us and how they were different. What...