Well, I’m not the most linear-minded person, but I thought I’d make some effort to start at the beginning, for those not as familiar with this work! Welcome to the world of ancestral healing… Ancestral healing operates on the principle that whatever an individual experienced during their lifetime, some energetic imprint of it remains and can be handed down through the generations (and possibly also has physical, tangible effects on our biology, as well, but we’ll look at that when we dive into epigenetics). What is handed down may be a legacy of joy and love—it does happen! But more often we encounter an inheritance of pain and suffering, trauma…

I am Tara—named for the rocky home of the ancient high kings of Ireland—and I’ve been consciously performing ancestral healing work for about 15 years, now. In a broader sense, I’ve been doing it my entire life. I was always the strange, off-kilter child who was more interested in hearing about and investigating the spirits and history of my places and people than playing games with kids my own age—more interested in spending time with the dead than the living, and I’ve always held the historical/familial/institutional memory for any group that I’ve been intimately involved with. But about 15 years ago I dove into the deep waters of more focused…