Maybe you’ve felt it — patterns that run in families. The same fears, illnesses, struggles repeating…
What if healing yourself could ripple through your entire family tree?
Families Are More Than Blood
Families are not only connected by blood, but also by energy and shared soul patterns.
Modern science is beginning to confirm what many spiritual traditions have said for centuries: unhealed wounds do not end with the person who experiences them. They ripple through families and can echo across generations.
🔬 The Science Behind Family Patterns
Epigenetics shows us how. In a famous 2013 study, researchers Brian Dias and Kerry Ressler at Emory University exposed mice to the smell of cherry blossoms and paired it with a mild electric shock. The mice learned to fear the smell — but here’s the astonishing part: their offspring, and even the next generation, also showed fear of cherry blossom scent, without ever having been shocked themselves.¹
Trauma literally left chemical “marks” on the genes, changing how they were expressed and passed on.
Human research reveals something similar. Dr. Rachel Yehuda at Mount Sinai School of Medicine has studied children of Holocaust survivors and found distinct changes in their stress hormone regulation compared to peers.² Trauma, it seems, can be biologically inherited.
Mark Wolynn, in It Didn’t Start With You, adds that many of our deepest struggles — depression, relationship difficulties, even unexplained fears — may be echoes of events in our parents’ or grandparents’ lives.³
And Thomas Hübl, in Healing Collective Trauma, reminds us that trauma is not only personal but also collective:
“What is not integrated in one generation is carried by the next until it can be seen, felt, and healed.”⁴
All of these insights point to one truth: when you choose to heal yourself, you may also be healing your family — past, present, and future.
🌳 What Is Family Tree Healing?
Family Tree Healing is a specific type of The Body Knows™ energy session.
I work on one person — the client — with the intention to release inherited or family-related blocks that show up during the session.
This may include:
- clearing stuck energies or emotions within the client,
- dissolving unhealthy family cords,
- releasing collective family beliefs (“we always struggle with money,” “love hurts,” etc.).
At the beginning of the session, we set an intention for which family members will benefit from this ripple effect.
✨ Important: I only work with the client’s energy. I do not tap into other people’s fields without consent. But as one link in the family chain shifts, the whole family dynamic can realign.
🌟 When to Consider Family Tree Healing
This session may be for you if:
- You notice repeating family issues (health, money, relationships).
- You feel burdened by your family story.
- Your child shows struggles that feel bigger than their personal experience.
- You sense that something “runs in the family” — and you want to break the cycle.
🙋 My Own Experience
I myself have struggled with a habit that felt impossible to shift. Recently, I discovered that an older family member (an ancestor) had lived with the same pattern — and I noticed my child showing it too.
During a session, I set the intention to clear it not only for myself but also for my ancestors and descendants — while still working only on me. I cut cords between us and dissolved a family belief we all seemed to share.
Honestly, I am still learning this. But if I can help my family in all directions of lineage by healing myself, I am all in.
I know I am a cycle breaker — and Family Tree Healing gives me another tool to do this work on an even deeper level.
💫 Ready to Heal Your Lineage?
If you feel ready to bring healing not only to yourself, but also to your family line, Family Tree Healing may be the next step.
👉 Explore the standalone package or book a discovery call to learn more.
References:
- Dias, B. G., & Ressler, K. J. (2013). Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations. Nature Neuroscience.
- Yehuda, R. et al. (2016). Holocaust exposure induced intergenerational effects on FKBP5 methylation. Biological Psychiatry.
- Wolynn, M. (2016). It Didn’t Start With You. Penguin.
- Hübl, T. (2020). Healing Collective Trauma. Sounds True.