"Buried in the recesses of your family's history you may find secrets. Due to cultural and societal prohibitions, these facts about the family typically remain repressed, as are the strong feelings associated with these secrets. There's considerable shame that prevents these secrets from being acknowledged and dealt with, so they become toxic to other family members.
...these repressed feelings and behaviors get projected onto others in the family, who then act out these toxic feelings without being aware of their original source...
Sometimes the secrets are so huge that discovering the truth behind them changes someone's life around 180 degrees.
...When these secrets remain buried, they end up being projected onto other people or passed along through the generations...The poisonous influence of family secrets can remain in the lineage for several generations, often enacted by one or more family members until there is active healing.
There are a number of resources for healing this ancestral karma, and it's often through the healing journey that someone finds out about these secrets. Once the secrets are brought out into the open, there's opportunity to release their hold on the family members, and subsequent generations will no longer have to carry them...
...Being secrets, they are often submerged under layers of guilt and shame yet are often acted out or projected onto others...
...The secrets, as well as the act of keeping secrets, continue to be forwarded until someone in the lineage is willing to tackle these issues and seek healing for the damage done."
- Dr. Steven D. Farmer
detail from a recent mixed media on paper
