Healing the Past

Tonya Dawn Recla
Oh, I’m so glad that you’re back with us. And you and I’ve enjoyed many, many conversations and connections along the way. And so I’m glad that we can, we can share some of that with the audience and let others in on on all of the beautiful information that comes between us when we talk about the passion that we have for the work that we do in the world, and how similar it is and the differences. And so we’ll get into a little bit of that. Our last episode was Healing for the World. And so if you go to the episode page, folks, I’ll have the link for that one, if you didn’t get a chance to catch that with Karen. But now we’re going to be talking all about healing the past. And it’s a great add on or addition or extension of the conversation of healing for the world. Because as we look at, you know what’s come out of the world, since this post pandemic reality sort of is forming and taking shape. There’s a lot of awareness around how our past, present and future are interconnected, how the programs and our world would we would consider them the human programs that we have that get passed through our genetic lines are epigenetics all of the elements that make up who we are, and our experiences, what we’ve seen, what we’ve heard, what we know to be true, and how that changes. A lot of that is informed in large part by our past, right? Not just our past, but it can also be generational ties, it can be family dynamics, it can be a whole ton of things that come into us in a moment when when we think that we’re healing from chronic headaches, right? Like, like, we think we’re, we’re healing, a bruise or a bump or something that’s occurred for us. In my recent recent history, you know, a car accident that Justin and I were involved with. And so much comes up in those moments when the body goes through traumatic situations, and, and you really get a chance to look in all the little crevices and stuff at it, how do we hold things right? Even Even how we hold healing? Right? What stories we’ve been told about healing and what we think is possible and and Is it is it all you know, Western medicine, is it all homeopathic is it all the self right, and self empowerment, or some formula of that. And we all carry a different way of looking at it. And so today we’re going to talk about that. And Karen, I know you do a lot of work in that data healing realm, and then and then the ancestral lineage work. And so I’d love to hear your perspective on when we talk about healing the past, how much of an impact does that have in our in our day to day lives as we go about things?

Karen Abrams
That we have that then we go wait a sec, that wasn’t me, I’m so sorry, or whatever, that could have been an ancestor just kicking in a fear or prejudice or, or a trauma or something like that, that we were we may have been wearing on our sleeve a little more than we knew. And and so that can really affect the decisions we make right up to the moment that we’re trying to move forward for something and you know, it could happen in silliness of like, what shirt are you going to wear but more likely, it’s coming when there’s bigger decisions to be made. And, and, and but they they do inform so, so vitally and so powerfully on how we move forward.

Tonya Dawn Recla
Absolutely. I love that and I come from the intercultural background, the study of how our programs whether that be racially, ethnically how those sort of play into our cultural understanding of things. And in that world, we talk a lot about things like time orientation, right? And we don’t necessarily always recognize that, by having different time orientations by being predisposed to certain time orientations, it gives us a certain perspective on the world. And that’s just one little itty bitty variable. But you know, how we deal with people in terms of closeness, how we deal with people, we tend to come at them mentally or emotionally or physically or vibrationally. Right? A lot of times that’s informed by our upbringing by our families, and by those social identities that that make up who we are. And there are many of them.

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