Is This Yours to Carry? with Linda Schiller
About this episode
Linda Schiller discusses healing intergenerational trauma and the gifts of ancestral connection.
We are the dreams of our ancestors; we are their hopes for the future. But sometimes their trauma is transmitted to us through nightmares. In today’s special replay, Dream Journal regular Linda Schiller, speaks about how to heal that intergenerational pain and focus on the gifts of ancestral connection. Linda talks about her own ancestors and how her grandfather, who she called Grandpa Joey, fled Kiev with his family at age of three because of the pogroms and how making borscht soup always helped her feel more connected to that side of her family. We talk about the trauma that we inherit from our ancestors but also the caring and resilience. Linda also talks about synchronicity, public trauma vs private trauma, drawing up a family tree, and dream incubation. After the break, we explore a dream of Katherine’s about doing numerical computations like she used to during her NASA career and about why she might be having this dream now over 20 years after leaving that position. BIO: Linda Yael Schiller is an international teacher, psychotherapist, and dream worker. She is professor emeritus from Boston University School of Social Work and the post-graduate Trauma…
People in this episode
Host: Katherine Bell
Guest: Linda Schiller
Topics covered
- intergenerational trauma
- ancestral connection
- dream work
- healing
- synchronicity
- family history
Keywords
- dreams
- ancestors
- trauma
- borscht soup
- family tree
- dream incubation
- public trauma
- private trauma
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Boston University School of Social Work
Books & works: Ancestral Dreaming: Healing Generational Wounds with Active Dreamwork
Places: Kiev
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