During many of the summits I host for The Shift Network, I am also interviewed as one of the experts in the summit’s topic. Afterwards, I always feel like I’ve overshared. I’m afraid that, to the mainstream world, I’ll sound airy-fairy and woo-woo, if not downright nuts. This is my most personal and vulnerable summit session to date, and I almost let my fear of judgment win.
I’ve hosted five annual summits on the topic of ancestral and inter-generational trauma/healing and I’ve been doing ancestral work myself. In fact, that’s one reason I suggested this topic to The Shift Network all those years ago, because I wanted to have conversations with experts and others who are doing the work. Countless people have been helped over the years with these free summits. Where else can you access so much wisdom, packed into one week?
Even while I was being interviewed for the Ancestral Healing Summit 2023, though, I was aware that I was saying things I would later regret and said to Vanessa Codorniu, the guest host, that I felt like I was sharing “too much information”. That’s apparently an aspect of being a Sagittarius … putting your foot in your mouth.
Before the interview, I was excited to talk about what I’ve learned. After many years of dedicated focus on my ancestors, my life has dramatically improved. I wanted to share tips and anecdotes to help viewers better understand how to not only heal ancestral trauma but also tap into the strengths and skills mastered by those who came before us, because it’s not all pain and suffering — there are a lot of juicy talents that can be passed down, but only if they’re not being blocked by all the damage done over the years by people just being people.
Because I was safe in my own home, just me and Vanessa chatting over Zoom, I allowed myself to forget that strangers will be watching this. I shared personal stories and private discoveries made while using tools like shamanic journeying, generational regression, genealogy research and divination. I think I even said something like, “I know this will sound crazy, but …” and kept plowing onward.
At about 3:30 that next morning, I was wide awake, worrying about it. “What did I say? Did I embarrass myself? Why can’t I just shut up?” I reached over to my nightstand and picked up my phone, and quickly sent a message to Amanda, my Summit Manager at Shift, saying that I wanted to cancel it. Please delete the recording. I don’t want it to air.
Fortunately, Amanda (one of my favorite people) suggested that I watch the recording and think about it, so I did. It’s funny how I didn’t look at all like I felt inside, like I was screaming at myself “Shut up! Shut up! STFU!!!” So I changed my mind about letting it air and decided that I just won’t promote it publicly. The Shift Network audience is like-minded. They’ll get it. I’ll keep it between us.
But here’s where some of that ancestral healing comes in. One of my dysfunctional ancestral patterns was that voice telling me to shut up: “Don’t air family laundry in public. Don’t attract anyone’s undivided attention. For God’s sake, just shut up.”
Out of respect for the person who pounded this into my psyche, I won’t name who it was, but she knows. I’ve spent the past several years making peace with what she taught me (which she was taught by those who came before her).
I’ve realized that this inner voice has been holding me back my entire life. For crying out loud, it’s in my astrological and numerological makeup to write, speak in public, and put myself out there. It’s not out of a vainglorious need to be seen, it’s just who I am. And this “STFU” voice is the absolute antithesis of who I am.
Because I’ve been doing the work — diving deeply into the stories of those who came before me, without whom I wouldn’t be who I am — I’m able to take a chance on me, and I feel one specific ancestor’s pride in both of us, for the healing work we’ve done together.
Here are some of the topics I discussed during my interview, which airs on Tuesday, January 31 at 2PM Pacific time.
- you may have dormant psychic abilities that your well ancestors mastered in their lifetimes, and they can help you strengthen and hone them
- your greatest fears in this lifetime may be ancestral “memories”
- this work may not always be easy, but the results can be miraculous
If you miss it, you can always watch it later as long as it’s within 48 hours of the original airtime. The Ancestral Healing Summit is a free event, which streams online the week of January 30 through February 3, 2023. The only cost is if you choose to purchase the upgrade package, which allows you to keep the recordings and all the bonuses in your digital library.
I’ll be in the chatroom, live, if you want to say “Hi!” I hope to see you there!
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P.S. Here’s a sample of what the illuminating speakers will be sharing with you in the Ancestral Healing Summit…
- Thomas Hübl will explore how you can tap into your ancestors’ strengths while also acknowledging and healing the intergenerational trauma and patterns that have been passed down through your DNA
- Jill Purce, known as a pioneer of ancestral healing work, will explore how to set yourself, your family, and future generations free from inherited traumas, transforming clamorous ancestors into supportive allies and powerful guides.
- Renowned international shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman will offer tools to reverse karmic ancestral curses that may have been passed down through your family lineage, freeing you to live out your own destiny.
- Dr. Velma Love will discuss how basic ancestral healing practices might be combined with the design justice approach to generate strategies for cultural healing.
- Mayan elder, midwife, and shamanic healer Grandmother Flordemayo will talk about the sacred placenta fire ceremony, her family’s Uterus pot, and the womb’s wisdom connection to female ancestors.
- Join Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone for an experiential journey into the ancestral realms to encounter and receive guidance from your spiritual allies there.
- Masami Covey affirms that unhealed, painful family trauma legacies that lie dormant inside your connective tissues can be processed and released from your fascia.
- Dr. Arielle Schwartz will introduce you to an integrative, mind-body approach to working with generational wounds that highlights the strength of the human spirit and cultivates transgenerational resilience.
- As Christina Caudill will share, it’s important to establish and build trust with our ancestors, building a 2-way line of communication by treating them with respect, reverence, and humility.
- Join ancestral healing practitioner Langston Kahn as he shares how ancestral connection and healing increases your capacity to experience joy.
- Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona will explore the Indigenous North American concepts of honoring ancestors and our relationships with them, including how we connect with them and why they would want to connect with us.
… and many more!
RSVP here for the Ancestral Healing Summit, taking place January 30 to February 3 — at no charge.
Lisa Bonnice is an award-winning, best-selling author whose “day job” is as a Program Host at The Shift Network, where she hosts summits on ancestral healing, life after death, and intuition and medicine.
Her current passion-project is a series of metaphysical comedy novels. The first is entitled The Poppet Master (previously published as Be Careful What You Witch For!, now revamped and with a new ending). The Poppet Master is a modern-day fairy tale about Lola Garnett, a bored housewife and office drone who wakes up with unexpected psychic abilities, and no instruction manual, and Twink, the reluctant, sarcastic faery assigned to assist and educate her. The Poppet Master is available wherever books are sold. Its sequel is in the works.
Lisa is also writing The Maxwell Curse, a fictionalized version of a story she found in her own ancestral lineage about a witch trial, a generational curse, and massive mine explosion, all of which left ripples of destruction in their wake, devastating one family’s tree.
http://www.lisabonnice.com
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