Ancestral Healing

My grandfather, my father (center child) and his siblings, circa 1930

Working through old feelings and patterns of behavior is not an easy task. Not for the “faint-hearted,” as my grandmother used to say. Facing the truths that our mothers, fathers and ancestors struggled with is not easy either.

Through self-reflection I’ve discovered a path to freedom. Freedom from repeating the same mistakes in relationships, for example.  I am correcting the habits that have created a vacuum in my family and in generations of ancestors. This is one of our highest purposes on this earth.

Yoga offers me the tools to go deep. Family and trusted friends are the soft place I can land after walking through these forests populated by deep truths. Unlocking my best self by looking into the mirror of the past.

I can recommend that you read a post here on A Soul Led Life, titled “The Wounds of our Mothers”  as written by my sister, Suzanne Whitfield Vince, to gain insight as to why this poem came to me and feels so important. See her post here: https://www.asoulledlife.com/post/the-wounds-of-our-mothers

May these words inspire you, as you go deeply in finding your truths,

Ella

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Mom, Suzanne (left) and Ella, circa 1975

A poem...

Ancestral Healing

by Ella Whitfield (Written in Sacramento, California 2023)

Ancestry.

Healing.

Who?

You

Daughters

Sons

Me

All

Each step

represents the same steps

our ancestors once took.

How is it different, how is it similar?

Step this way and avoid the obvious pitfalls.

Step that way and repeat the mistakes.

Either way, neither way can lead to freedom and healing.

Feel the bondage

in the choices gone wrong.

Open your eyes. Heart. And Soul.

Heal the patterns

in the transparency of history.

Be New, be You, be You now.

Ancestral Healing I call on you now.

Reveal. Heal. Be new.