Question 1

What is Ancestral Lineage Healing?

Accepted Answer

Ancestral Lineage Healing (ALH) is a ritual practice of directly relating with one's blood ancestors for the purpose of personal, family, and cultural healing. ALH invites you to come into living, conscious relationship with your recent and ancient ancestors in a safe and sacred ritual container as you learn to hone your intuition and sensing abilities. This work is a doorway for reclaiming lost ancestral wisdom and healing intergenerational wounds. It is a path toward remembering who you are and who you belong to. It is an opportunity to fully embody the blessings of your people and to honor the beauty and magic within your lineages.

Question 2

Why Begin This Work?

Accepted Answer

Putting our roots back into the mycelium network of our ancestors is foundational for restoring right relationship with the Earth. It is part of the antidote to the disease of colonization and extractive capitalism.This is change work and cultural healing work that asks us to begin with ourselves, our people. How can we ever hope to walk in a good way with others, including our more-than-human kin if we cannot relate in a good way with our own people?On a more personal and direct level, this work can support your own journey toward vibrancy, health, and wellbeing. You are a network of blood, bone, sinew, lymph, plasma, hormones, organs, etc, etc, etc. Woven into your body are the stories, the traumas, and the triumphs of your ancestry. When we heal our people, we heal ourselves and vice versa. This work does not guarantee that you will find relief from chronic pain or illness. Many people do report, however, positive physical, mental, and emotional benefits from doing this work. This is the work that can get at the spiritual layers of curse entanglements and negative projections that may be big blockages toward full expression of the health your body is capable of experiencing.

Question 3

What if I don't know anything about my ancestors?

Accepted Answer

This work doesn't require you to know anything about your ancestors. There are many reasons why you might not have information about your blood relatives, and that is alright. You will be reaching far back to connect with the very ancient ones who lived before fracture and disconnect with the Earth. They are the ones who will guide the healing process and may give you information, if it is helpful or useful, on your more recent ancestors.Whether genealogical information was never shared with you before family passed away, or whether records have been lost or destroyed, whether you or your parents/grandparents were adopted, whatever the reason--it is possible for you to have deep, nourishing connection with your people of blood and bone. And if you were adopted, you have full power and sovereignty to choose whether you want to heal and engage with your adoptive lineages or with your blood lineages, or both. Many people are concerned with the tense and even painful experiences they may have had with their recent ancestors. They worry about connecting with ones who have been sources of trauma, or who have enacted historical harms that the living carry in their bones as personal guilt for being descended from such a lineage. To this I offer an important consideration: we will never connect with any of the recent ones until they have been cocooned and healed with the support of the ancient ones. We will never seek direct connection with any ancestors who are still unwell on the other side. This is an important form of ritual safety and we take every precaution to maintain the sovereignty of your body and your spirit. If your nervous system ever feels overwhelmed, we titrate the experience and step things down. This work is not about feeling every grief and trauma of your people within your own body. It is precisely the opposite! It is bringing in the ancient elders who are the actual ones able to metabolize and transform the big pains.  When there is vibrancy and wellness in your entire lineage, and your people have all come out of the healing cocoon, then there is the opportunity to directly relate again with your recent dead. This is the chance for your own body to rewrite the narrative it has about their life(lives), so see them healed, to receive forgiveness or offer it, and to start fresh.

Question 4

Why might I trust you as a guide?

Accepted Answer

I am a practitioner with Ancestral Medicine and well-trained in the ancestral lineage healing approach created and articulated by Dr. Daniel Foor, Founder of Ancestral Medicine. I abide by their Code of Ethics and share their Core Values of being Animist, Anti-Supremacist, International, Courageous, Accessible, and Kind.I am a queer woman, mother, writer, and musician. I love laughing. I love walking. I'm currently really into Southern Italian tarantella dancing and drumming styles and I am learning to play the tambourine and tamburello.You can check out my About page to understand more of my background and how it grounds my work as a ritualist and guide. But the best way to find out if we would be a good fit? Reach out and let's have an introductory chat together. Then, trust your gut. You'll have a great sense of me and you'll know the direction you'd like to take. I trust you to know what's best for you and I honor your own intuition.

Question 5

Is this therapy? Are you a therapist?

Accepted Answer

No. Ancestral Lineage Healing is not therapy and I am not a therapist. In accordance with Italian Law, I am an Operatore Olistico (Holistic Operator) and my services are offered under Italian Law 4/2013 (Operatore Olistico). Sessions are for creative, educational, and personal growth purposes only. They do not constitute medical, psychological, or legal advice, diagnosis, or treatment. However, many people find this work to be very therapeutic and that it works in tandem and supports other therapeutic work they do outside of ancestral tending.  I am humbled to accompany you as a guide on your journey, and therefore I take very seriously your privacy even if I am not mandated to do so. I maintain full confidentiality, share all session notes with you, and welcome you to record our calls for future reference

Question 6

I'm nervous there isn't anyone on any of my lines who is safe to connect with. I'm also nervous no one will respond to me if I try to do this work.

Accepted Answer

You are not alone. Neither in this feeling, nor in walking out your life on this earth.I have yet to meet someone who didn't express this concern. Here is what I believe: We all come from earth honoring wise ones. Some of us need only look back a generation to find them, while others may need to go back thousands of years.Through such traumas and events as colonization and imperialism, enslavement, genocide, war, famine, and religious persecution, many humans have been severed from their roots and cut off from their ancestral wellspring of blessings and protections. They were severed from their rituals of threshold care--helping the dead and the dying to transition well.And yet, are you not here? You are the living face of your ancestors and their voice sings in your bones. They are not far from you. They are very, very close. They look out from your eyes. They move in the dexterity of your fingers with your handwork. They are your laser sharp brain noticing patterns and dangers and developing strategies...or hilarious jokes.You are a living testimony to their great resilience. While there is yet life and breath in us, let us turn toward them once again for help, for healing, for happiness. For as much as you long for them, I promise they also long for you. You have thousands of ancestors. Yet for each lineage, we're only looking for one. All it takes is one connection with one ancestral guide to open the floodgates of healing. Your odds for connection are quite high. :-)

Ancestral Lineage Healing

Ancestral Sessions

Introductory Chat

Intake & Assessment | 90 Minutes