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EP111: Luisa Muhr on Family Constellations, Ancestral Trauma, and Working Somatically While Online
Luisa Muhr joins me to talk about her work in Family Constellations Therapy, including intergenerational trauma resulting from the holocaust as well as racial trauma within the United States. We talk about the importance of community space in a therapy setting, why working within an energy field is so effective, and staying somatically engaged while online.
Bio
Luisa Muhr is a New-York-based artist and healer, specializing in Family & Systemic Constellations. As the descendant of her great-grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, Constellation work has always played an integral part in Luisa’s life. She provides group workshops and one on one sessions
What They Share
What Family Constellations is and how it works
The importance of honoring our ancestors and those in our systems
How working with Holocaust survivors has impacted her work in the world
What You’ll Hear
Working within an energy field
Unwinding old patterns through ancestry work
The difference between drama therapy and Family Systems
Who is included in our family systems
The importance of speaking a story out of secrecy
The value of processing within community
How working with archetypes can help us process and heal
Restoring appropriate predator energy
Creating space for healing intergenerational social traumas
Weaving Family Constellations into your own work
Processing beyond the overt narrative
The importance of ritual in healing
Connecting into the energy field even when separated by geographical distance
Identifying what you need
Using technology to continue our somatic practices in community
The difference between the outer relationship and narrative, and the internal experience
Centering yourself in your own healing work
How your healing impacts your children
Pull Quotes
30:45 “What I was saying with stories I’m used to, which are these deep, dark Holocaust stories. Here [in the US], you have Indigenous people, you have slavery, you have all the repercussions of all this accumulated trauma. And energetically that feels in a way familiar, obviously I’ll never understand, but it’s so important to hold the space. Finally people are more open to look at it and to actually offer space.”
45:00 “Tapping into a larger sense of opening ourselves for healing, and taking this time right now- some of us might be more stressed out than ever, which I totally get - but being really checking in: what is there? On one side it’s more confusing because we’re so tied to our screens, but there’s also more access to things all of a sudden.”
45:45 “For anybody who’s listening, just check in with yourself and listen to what you need right now. Often we’re not being asked that question, really. This is a good time to really check in and ask: what do I need? What is something that will help me? This is something that I ask every single person.”
47:10 “It’s not about information. We have to find, especially now being computer time all the time, it’s a headspace, right? So we really want to get back into the body in a time when we’re feeling constantly disconnected from our bodies. So let’s make the screen time that we have, make that a more somatic experience.”
48:15 “We’re really checking in with, how are the people in my life- it can be people who already passed, but how are people who are close to me, how are they doing inside of me?”
Resources
Website: www.familyconstellationsnyc.com
Website: www.luisamuhr.com
IG: @familyconstellations.nyc
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