A candle on a Christmas Tree. PD photo from Gerbil; CC-SA, Wikimedia.
A candle on a Christmas Tree. PD photo from Gerbil; CC-SA, Wikimedia.

With the Season of Lights Holy Days, holidays — and holiDAZE for many people — this previous musing on The Healers of the Family Tree came spiraling back up into my awareness.

I’ve updated the mid-December Special Offerings, too, adding a Spiritual Direction-focused offering to reflect this need based on an email convo with a reader.

(You’ll see the link to fresh specials below, too.)

Holidays & the Healers of the Family Tree.

If we’re blessed with stress-free family relations, get togethers, holiday times, and New year — a charmed life, with no stresses or challenges — then we are HUGELY blessed, indeed. Celebrate it!

For many, even with the joys and blessings, there are often nerve-frazzling stresses and family dramas at this time of year.

Ancient olive tree (photo from Medilico's Olive Facts)
Ancient olive tree (photo from Medilico’s Olive Facts)

For some others, the holidays and this time of year is super stressful, angst-stirring, and even depressing.

Some of those stresses — many of them, maybe — are very much connected to the cultural, familial, and ancestral ‘legacies’ that play out again and again.

Until they’re seen, soothed, shifted … and, just maybe, healed.

When there’s a heart-centered purpose, even the potentially nerve-frazzling stresses and family dramas can be experienced differently.

In that Spirit …

Here’s a refreshed version of my previous Sophia’s Children post, The Healers of the Family Tree … as well as some new goodies for the mid-December Special Offers.

Big Love & a healing season!

Jamie

Sophia's Children

Deep Roots and Spring Growth. Photo by Jamie Walters, 2011. Re-use with Creative Commons attribution & a link back to this page. Merci. Deep Roots and Spring Growth. Photo by Jamie Walters, 2011. Re-use with Creative Commons attribution & a link back to this page. Merci.

There are clues that spiral around again and again to validate, remind, or spark new (or renewed) awareness and dedication.

These clues can make up the shiny breadcrumb clue trail we follow, if we know how to look.

When I came across the following musing, in a book I came across quite serendipitously, it spoke to me very deeply.

I know that it’ll speak to some of you, too, as keepers of the ancestral lineage and healers of the family tree (as Malidoma Somé writes).

With holidays coming up and throughout the year, there are times when the family and ancestral strengths and gifts may be evident and on display.

For many, though, and in our cultural and ‘news headlines’ as well, the familial-ancestral traumas and…

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