Healing the Hidden Wounds: Understanding & Transforming Intergenerational Trauma

If you’ve ever wondered why certain struggles—whether emotional, mental, or even physical—seem to repeat themselves in families, you may be experiencing something known as intergenerational trauma. Many people in Olympia, WA, Seattle, WA, San Francisco, and across the UK are beginning to explore this powerful concept as they seek deeper healing beyond more mainstream methods, such as Reiki energy healing and mental health therapy.

In this post, I’ll answer four of the most common questions about intergenerational trauma and share how Generational Healing® sessions can guide you toward lasting transformation and reclaim the emotional and spiritual harmony you've been trying to find for years.

What is Intergenerational Trauma?

Intergenerational trauma, sometimes called ancestral or transgenerational trauma, is the passing down of unresolved pain, fear, and emotional wounds from one generation to the next. This can happen even if you didn’t directly experience the original event.

For example, a grandmother who endured war, loss, or abuse may unconsciously pass her survival patterns to her children and grandchildren.

These inherited wounds often show up as:

• Patterns of anxiety, depression, or grief that never seem to resolve

• Difficulty in relationships or parenting

• Financial struggles or fear-based scarcity mindsets

• Physical ailments or chronic illness with no clear cause

• Feeling like you’re carrying a burden that doesn’t fully belong to you

• Difficulty with conceiving when trying to get pregnant

• Repeating broken family relationships across generations

• Autoimmune issues

• Heart disease, hypertension

• Feeling fear, guilt, or shame and not knowing where it comes from

• Not living one's purpose

• People pleasing patterns

• Difficulty speaking up and using your voice

• Patterns of abuse

• Asthma

• Female reproductive issues

The clues leftover within a family lineage of unhealed trauma run deep and show up in many different ways. What other patterns come to mind after reading this list that you notice within yourself and your family?

How Do I Know If I Am Experiencing Intergenerational Trauma?

You may be experiencing intergenerational trauma if:

• You notice repeating emotional patterns in your family line.

• You feel weighed down by emotions that don’t seem fully your own.

• You struggle with unexplained guilt, shame, or fear.

• Family history includes cycles of addiction or abuse

• Traditional therapy hasn’t fully addressed the depth of what you’re feeling.

• You feel like something is spiritually guiding you to look deeper at your family lineage.

Often, my clients in Olympia, Seattle, San Francisco, and the UK describe it as carrying something heavy without understanding why. You are not imagining this feeling—trust your gut instincts and intuition here, because you are being guided and supported to look deeper into the root of these unresolved patterns. If you're a person who needs the science, take a moment to Google epigenetics. Scientists have proven through the study of epigenetics how stress and trauma experienced by prior generations is passed on further down the family line. The good news is—we can heal it, and Generational Healing® sessions are the answer. You won't find this in a doctor's office, where the emotional and spiritual aspects of a person's experiences are often not even taken into consideration. The medical solution is often "take this drug" and send you on your way. But how does this solve the problem? It doesn't—it buries the truth, and the root cause never gets addressed.

I hope you want more for yourself than that.

How Do I Heal Intergenerational Trauma?

True healing requires going to the root—the original wound held within your lineage. That’s where my Generational Healing® sessions come in to support you in feeling lighter, grounded, and centered to move forward in your life because you finally understand why you have been feeling the way you do for so long. You're not crazy, and you are not imagining it. These unseen patterns are real, and sometimes it takes a while for them to fully grasp our attention to recognize that there's something deeper going on. Sometimes this can feel really vulnerable and bring up feelings of avoidance and shame.

As a Certified Generational Healer® trained through the International Soul Therapy School®, I create a safe, sacred container for you to receive the healing and emotional relief that you've been searching for. Through my professional training and years of experience, I can release the stored trauma patterns that have been passed down to you.

Clients often describe these energy healing sessions that I facilitate over Zoom as liberating, empowering, and deeply transformative—unlocking a new sense of lightness, clarity, and belonging.

One of my clients in 2025 recently said to me after one of her many Generational Healing® sessions, "I feel like every time I work with you, a heavy cloud is lifted off of me."

This work brings real results. In each session, we peel back and release another layer of inherited generational trauma so you can experience more joy, mental clarity, and emotional calmness to enjoy your life. Who doesn't want more of that?

How Does Distance Energy Healing Work?

In a distance Generational Healing® session, I create a sacred space where your lineage is acknowledged and the healing is transmitted energetically. My role is to hold the connection, facilitate the release, and communicate messages from your ancestors. It is completely safe, and you won't "relive" the trauma that is being healed and released.

Clients describe the energy as tingling sensations, waves of energy, feeling heavy in a grounding way, or a deep inner relaxation. You can rest assured that this is a real and safe form of healing. I will connect with you over Zoom at your scheduled session time to give you simple instructions on how to receive the healing, and share with you afterward what came through that was healed as communicated by one of your ancestors who is supporting you and the lineage to heal and bring an end to generational patterns.

Why Healing Your Lineage Matters

By choosing to heal your lineage, you are breaking the cycle of inherited pain and creating a foundation of peace and empowerment for yourself and your family. Imagine your children and future generations living free from burdens that never truly belonged to them—that is the gift of this work and so much more.

By choosing to heal your lineage, you are giving yourself the chance to heal your heart, heal your womb, heal your emotions, and feel the real support of your wise and well ancestors. If you haven't yet developed a connection to your ancestors, Generational Healing® sessions are often the bridge to this new connection to come forward and become conscious to a person in their life journey. It is not something to be afraid of, but one to hold with honour, reverence, gratitude, and curiosity. There is much to learn, explore, and feel excited about with this coming into your life.

If you've ever had a Reiki energy healing, you will quickly realize how different Generational Healing® is different from Reiki energy healing. Lineage-specific healing is more direct, impactful, and beneficial for the long-term and a necessary step to reclaim your personal energy and start living your life purpose, if that path speaks to you.

Click here to read FAQ's and book your Generational Healing® session today.

Book Your Generational Healing® Session

Anywhere in the world with an internet connection, you can experience lineage healing and support of a Generational Healing® session with Sarah Christine Gill, Certified Generational Healer®.

✨ Release inherited trauma
✨ Reclaim your power, energy, and peace
✨ Create a new legacy for your lineage

You can have an incredible impact on healing the unseen, but deeply felt, family lineage wounds you carry emotionally, spiritually, and energetically. Here at Intuitive Soul Blossom, we know how to guide and support you as you work toward living your empowered life.

Click here to read FAQ's and book your Generational Healing® session today.

Sarah Christine Gill, Certified Generational Healer®

I help spiritually curious women and mothers heal ancestral karmic trauma patterns so new pathways can open for purpose, fertility, and abundance.