The Embody Podcast ❤ Self-Love & Healing
Health & Fitness:Alternative Health
61: Lessons in Self Love : Toxic Ancestors and Family Relationships
In this episode, I explore a question from a listener:
“Can you receive love and strength from ancestors or relatives still alive if they are mentally sick/toxic/unhealthy?”
I discuss tuning into the soul of our family members that we feel challenged by to receive more than their human form can give us, how our “toxic dynamics or relationships” are the opening to the story of pain or loss in the family, and how these can be taken up as an opportunity to become aware of our gaps in self-love.
I explore how our expectations on others to be different may be our own dependencies — how do we shift out of these? We expand your capacity to love yourself and offer self-forgiveness. I also briefly talk about what needs mending in ourselves, what love is and sorting out what love isn’t, and untangling abuse and other ideas tied to love.
Check out the experientials where you can heal a part of your ancestry and recover love within yourself, shift a family relationship that is toxic by healing your inner child or younger self and bringing self-forgiveness to the judgments we hold about ourselves, particularly around dependency on others to provide us what we need.
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Show Notes
00:00 Intro
01:05 Opening: What Needs Mending?
04:10 Sponsored by My New Dream Physiology Class on Skillshare
07:35 Life Updates: Blizzards in Michigan
08:03 Working With the Challenges of the Ireland Experience
09:50 Bouncing Out of Social Into Doing Things - Energy Towards Myself
10:51 My Own Healing Journey
12:13 New Back Pain - What is My Back Saying?
14:47 Wanting to Be Held — Human and Childhood Needs
15:44 Connecting My Experience to Family Ancestry Trauma
17:31 More Enjoyment on My Healing Journey
19:07 This Week’s Topic: Receiving From Unhealthy and Toxic Relationships and Ancestors
20:52 Toxic Relationships Within the Your Family Line
27:02 Wishing That People Were Different — the Expectations and Dependency of It
27:55 Adult Now
28:54 Emotionally Distance Yourself // Compassion May Not Be the End All
30:33 Can We Cut Our Own Emotional Luggage?
32:44 It’s About You.
35:00 Underlying Family Constellations
39:03 Seeing the Soul of Someone Who Is Challenging Us
40:24 Using the Image of Someone Who Loves You
40:57 Working With Your Inner Parts Around Challenging Relationships
42:44 Asking Yourself: What Is Love?
43:57 Love in Families and People With Challenges
45:03 What if a Family System Has Accepted and Integrated Abuse as Love?
47:34 Work in Healing Ourselves
49:15 Other Interesting Episodes and Resources
50:47 This Week’s Healing Experientials
52:23 Closing — Tuning Into Where Your Heart Is Now
54:16 Embody Newsletter
54:38 Thank You for Being Here ❤
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