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The last few years I have read so many books and studied with many teachers in the areas of inherited trauma, collective trauma, ancestral healing and it never ceases to amaze me how deep we can go wi...
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 me...
Have you ever uttered the words…..
“genealogy serendipity” or commented on the fact your ancestors or spirit guides or “something” gave you exactly the record you needed to break down a brick wall? H...
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 s...
This morning over breakfast I flipped TV channels and caught half of the genealogy program, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. I almost never watch these genealogy shows but this morning s...
I recently discovered an account on Instagram @iwitnesshistory.This account is run by a man named Daniel Burghard, who recently published a book called The Things They've Seen. Reflections on WWII and...
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 state...
“If you see the city as a body, what happens to the body is a trauma. What people tend to do when they have a very serious trauma is to turn their back on it. The people from Rotterdam did not look ...