The Soul Came Home Wounded

Live webinar, Saturday, March 14 at 10:00 a.m. -11:30 a.m. CST

War Trauma, Ancestral Memory, and Generational Healing

Many veterans returned from war physically alive—but mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually altered. They came home carrying experiences they couldn’t name, couldn’t release, and often couldn’t, or weren’t allowed to speak about.

Their families felt it anyway.

The anger.
The silence.
The drinking.
The emotional distance.

The violence.
The abandonment.
The way everything shifted after the war—without explanation.

Then came the family secrets. Stories and truths hidden for generations under fables, whispers, and lies.

The Soul Came Home Wounded is a deep, guided workshop for those who have lived in the aftermath of war trauma—children and grandchildren of veterans, researchers, healers, and truth-seekers who want to understand why the veteran changed and how that trauma moved through the family line.

This is not about blaming the veteran. It’s about witnessing what war did to the soul—and what families were left to carry.

In This Workshop, We Will Explore:

How war trauma imprints on the soul, nervous system, and family system.
The ways unprocessed combat trauma shows up as addiction, rage, emotional withdrawal, or disappearance, and repeats through the generations.
How silence becomes a survival strategy—and a generational wound.
What military records and genealogy documents can reveal about trauma timelines.
How ancestral patterns repeat when wounds remain unacknowledged. Jennifer will share this through her own family story.
Gentle, grounded ways to begin releasing what was never yours to carry.

This work bridges genealogy, military history, ancestral healing, and spiritual understanding, offering context where families were given none.

This workshop includes

Live Webinar
A 1.5 hour guided teaching and reflection space held with care, depth, and respect for both the living and the dead.

Companion Workbook to guide you through reflection, records, resources on war trauma and family patterns, tools, and soul-level inquiry questions.

Replay Access
You’ll receive a full replay of the workshop so you can return to the material, move at your own pace, and revisit what unfolds after the session. Access is one year for the replay and workshop materials.

This Workshop Is For You If

You grew up sensing something was “wrong,” but no one could explain it.
You have lived some of your ancestors’ unprocessed war trauma.
You’re researching a veteran and feel the emotional weight behind the records.
You see repeating patterns in your family and want to understand their origin.
You feel called to honor the veteran and heal the lineage.
You know the war didn’t end when the fighting stopped.

Why This Work Matters

War does not stay on the battlefield. It moves through bodies, homes, relationships, jobs, countries, and bloodlines. When the soul comes home wounded and the wound is never named or healed, the family adapts around the pain.

This workshop offers language, context, and compassion—for the veteran, for the family, and for yourself.

Meet Your Guide

For more than a decade, I’ve helped people uncover the hidden stories of their military ancestors—from World War I through Vietnam—using a research approach that works even when records are missing, damaged, or destroyed. But my work has never been only about documents. It’s about understanding how war lives on in families.

My journey began nearly 30 years ago through genealogy and the quiet pull of my own military ancestors. Over time, I saw a pattern repeat itself again and again: the war may have ended, but its impact did not. Silence, fear, emotional distance, hyper-independence, grief, addiction, and fractured family dynamics often traced directly back to unspoken wartime experiences. Research opened the door—but healing was what families were truly seeking.

Having lived between Chicago and the Netherlands, I’ve been immersed in both American and European war history, culture, and remembrance. I’ve walked battlefields, stood at gravesites, and worked closely with military records while also navigating my own path through PTSD, inherited trauma, and deep ancestral healing. This lived experience sharpened my ability to recognize generational patterns and to help others make sense of how war shaped their families—often in ways no one ever explained.

Through the WWII Research & Writing Center and the Ancestral Souls Wisdom School, I now bring together genealogy, military research, trauma awareness, and ancestral healing. I help you recover the story of your veteran—and understand how that story echoes through generations—so you can transform inherited patterns into clarity, compassion, and healing.

This is not just research.
It’s reclamation.
It’s context.
It’s where history, lineage, and healing meet.