Written from a perspective of the interconnectedness of all things this set of case studies tracks inter-generational trauma over time. The mix of individual, ancestral and collective trauma-related casework provide insights into the human mind and how the spirit worlds work.

This book recounts stories of Jenny’s family members and ancestors to show how emotive experiences become stuck and are passed down a lineage. Some stories are entwined in historical sagas like the Scottish witch trials or the Battle of Sedgemoor, 1685. In others, a legacy was created by the loss of a love in the Great War, or a curse placed on a family member by a jealous employee. In some way or another, all of these potent stories are acted out again and again – with a different cast and setting – until they are resolved.

Jenny uses her professional and shamanic training along with the advice of people well-versed in trauma or how the spirit worlds work to attempt a range of healings. This might be an elixir to lift the veil of sadness and loss from a property, dowsing to identify the exact nature of loss of financial independence in midlife, connection with Aunt George, a spirit guide, to shed light on a recurring inheritance issue that may have started as early as 1296 or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to work through a pattern of exile.

This author believes we carry an emotional inheritance: the ancestors live inside us, and we take on their emotional pain in our own life struggles. In an attempt to resolve her trauma imprints, Jenny felt the need to work with those of her ancestors and the collective. Twenty-plus case stories tell individual stories that are connected in some way to her own.