Ancestral Lineage Healing

Ancestral Lineage Healing is a way of responding to that call. It is a path of healing for both the living and the dead. A way to restore what was broken through connection, not isolation. It honors your ancestors not as symbols or archetypes, but as real presences available for relationship, guidance, and care.

This work opens a space where beauty and grief can sit together. Where courage and curiosity meet. Where you walk with the friendly ones who have been waiting to tend what is unresolved within you and the lineage as a whole. It is relational healing, cultural remembering, and an invitation into deeper belonging to yourself and to all who came before.

Why Work With the Ancestors

Across time and culture, humans have known the dead are not gone. They continue to exist. They continue to relate. They shape the living and are shaped by us. In this practice, ancestors are approached as distinct presences shaped by their lived experiences, capable of connection, wisdom, and compassion.

Often, when people first turn toward their ancestors, their attention goes to the most recent generations, the ones closest to harm, rupture, or unresolved pain. It can be hard to imagine that there were ancestors before much of the confusion and cultural wounding took root, and it makes sense that disappointment, grief, anger, or shame can make someone want to turn away.

Beneath the layers of recent harm and confusion, there are often far older ancestors who remain clear and resourced, and who can guide the work with integrity. The healing begins by connecting with these well ones first, those able to tend the troubled or not yet fully well dead from a place of safety, capacity, and steadiness.

One of the gifts of working with the older, wiser ones is that they often carry medicine for the cultural woundings of our time. They remind us that healing is not meant to be an isolated, individual project, and they restore an older way of understanding what it means to be human. For many people, this includes remembering relationship with the more than human world, plants, land, water, sky, elements, and the living intelligence that has always been around us.

Ancestral healing restores an older knowing that healing is relational and collective. It is not meant to be carried alone. Through this work, you enter into relationship with ancestors who can hold what one life cannot, and who tend not only your story but the stories yet to come.

This offering is not about borrowing from other traditions. It is about remembering what was once your own. What was never meant to be lost. What is waiting to be restored.

This May Be For You If

• You feel a pull toward something sacred you cannot yet name.

• You carry a sense of loneliness, even when you are not alone.

• You long for rooted belonging that reaches deeper than personal identity.

• You are seeking ritual and you are curious about animism that is alive, embodied, honoring, and authentic.

• You feel a quiet, persistent call toward meaning and purpose.

• You want guidance in beginning this work, even if you are unsure where or how to start.

• You feel drawn toward cultural repair but do not yet know what that might look like in your own life.

• You sense there is unease or unrest among your more recent dead.

• You desire healing and liberation for those who came before you, especially the ones still in need.

What You Might Experience

• A deep reconnection to intuitive and embodied ways of knowing, including ritual as a living, felt practice.

• The grip of inherited conditioning loosening, with more expansive ways of being human becoming possible.

• A renewed sense of creativity and authentic self expression.

• Relationship with elder ancestors as mentors and guides.

• Direct remembrance of ancestral practices and rites through connection with your people.

• A grounded sense of belonging that is felt, not just understood.

• The release of burdens never meant to be yours, creating space for vitality and emotional freedom.

• Healing gifts and practical tools shared through your lineage, including ways of working with energy and non-human beings.

• A steady sense of being guided by something much older than your personal story.

You Do Not Need to Know How to Begin

You do not need to know how to do this. Whether you are new to ritual or have been walking a spiritual path for years, you can begin right where you are. No specific background is required. What helps most is a simple willingness to arrive with curiosity. We begin gently and steadily, and let the work unfold step by step.

This is deep, steady work. We are not only tending personal history. We are also relating with ancestral presences and the wider field of lineage, which means the healing often touches more than one layer at once. For many, this becomes a life changing relationship, not because it offers a single breakthrough, but because it restores connection, meaning, and a deeper capacity to meet life.

This work asks for ongoing engagement. Sessions are usually held every two to four weeks to keep the process moving gently and consistently. If you would like to begin, the first step is to schedule a two hour lineage assessment. If you have questions first, you are always welcome to email me or schedule a 30 minute consultation to explore this process in more detail.

The Roots of This Work

This healing path follows the lineage repair model developed by Dr. Daniel Foor and is grounded in animist values, ritual tending, and respectful relationship with the dead. Serra is a certified Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner through Ancestral Medicine and brings this framework into her work with care, integrity, and cultural humility.

Her approach is relational and devotional, guided by her ancestors and other than human beings who companion all that unfolds. She descends from English, Irish, French, and Germanic ancestors, with Slavic and Basque roots.

Alongside ancestral ritual, sessions are supported by energy healing, intuitive listening, and the wisdom of plant and flower beings who are also our elders. These modalities nurture the conditions for ancestral wisdom to re-root, allowing healing to unfold in grounded, guided, and uniquely personal ways.

If you would like a fuller feel for this work, you can listen to a podcast that describes the modality and what it can offer.
You can find links to various episodes here: Ancestral Lineage Healing Podcast Page

A Free Ancestral Lineage Healing informational session will be held early spring. If you’d like an invite, please sign up for my newsletter.