Ancestral Throughlines
REWEAVE THE PAST, CLEAR THE PATH FOR MEANINGFUL WORKDO you want to create change and do meaningful work but feel like invisible barriers are holding you back?
You’re not alone.
The most driven individuals often face unseen hurdles that traditional approaches can’t seem to address.
Despite extensive healing work & self-improvement you might find yourself caught in frustrating patterns like:
You know what to do but you aren’t doing it. It’s like you keep running into an invisible wall. So you push through and burn out, avoid tasks and stagnate, or stay busy continuously seeking new solutions, all without making meaningful progress.
You have core fears that don’t make sense: When you need to stand up or show confidence, irrational fears about making mistakes or being truly seen paralyze you. Fears like causing harm, losing your partner or child, or going crazy just being yourself or doing your work.
You run out of juice once you aren’t rebelling: After leaving a toxic situation or making a big career shift, the initial momentum fades. Your ability to maintain the energy and direction is dwindling. You need a deeper reason to do your work.
You are worn out by all the responsibilities you hold: Juggling roles like caregiving, managing a home, and/or a career has left you feeling depleted, scattered, and resentful. It seems easier to handle it all yourself, but the toll is heavy.
Life became unexpectedly tougher after a major event: Having your first child, losing a loved one, significant relationship changes… You’ve done a lot of work, but your challenges still feel way more difficult than they should at this point.
You still wrestle with the persistent shadows of anxiety, melancholy, or ADHD, despite therapy and numerous coping strategies.
Your struggles aren’t a reflection of your capabilities
You’re intelligent and committed; if traditional methods or productivity/focus hacks could unlock these blocks, they would have by now.
Consider the possibility that you might be running up against binds and blocks created by generational or existential trauma – the unprocessed events held in the memory of your lineage or coming into being.
IS generational Trauma Blocking your success?
Success flows with life but it can be dammed up by unsettled ancestral experiences like war, early death, or even common disruptions, like divorce.
This can hinder life & work in several ways:
Fear’s Misdirection: Unconscious fears, often inherited or deeply ingrained, subtly misguide our goals and drain our focus and energy.
The Leaky Tank: A disconnection from vital inherited resources such as life energy, meaning, and belonging, leaving us feeling perpetually depleted.
Chasing Shadows Instead of Dreams: Unwittingly living out narratives not our own, driven by unconscious loyalties to family stories rather than personal goals.
Realizing that these challenges are not solely your own can be both a relief and a call to deeper understanding.
If you’re ready to answer that call, I’m here to guide you through it.
MEET SARA: scientist-mystic
Hi, I'm Sara Taylor, PhD., a former behavioral neuroscientist and psychology professor specializing in the impact of early and chronic stress on mental illness and addiction.
My personal experience with severe anxiety and panic during pregnancy, stemming from what I now know was generational trauma, alongside my disenchantment with academia, steered me toward a new direction.
Now, I leverage my background in stress and mental health to facilitate Generational & Existential Self-Reclamation, combining systemic family constellations, Norse shamanic healing techniques, and multidimensional somatic and nervous system support.
This blend of science and spirituality empowers me to guide others through the shadows and complexities of emotional and existential challenges inherent in doing meaningful work.
ancestral Throughlines supports you to clear generational blocks and reconnect with the strengths of your lineage.
so you can move forward with your meaningful work.
Get out of your rut, move forward, and make it work with multifaceted benefits like:
Clarity & Insight
- Get clear about your goals and define what progress looks like for you.
- Understand your professional blocks and patterns with less self-blame.
- Identify and address influential ancestral and familial patterns.
- Feel seen and understood in unprecedented ways.
- Connect with a more solid sense of drive and purpose.
Creativity & FLOW
- Boost confidence and motivation, while reducing anxiety and overwhelm.
- Freeing energy for work and life, by releasing generational binds
- Increase access to the ability to initiate and sustain projects.
- Find more consistent access to creativity and intuition.
- Improve professional and family relationships without confrontation.
Collective Change
- Expand your role and impact in your community and career.
- Reduce the intensity of generational trauma that is passed down.
- Contribute to collective healing through what you can actually change: yourself and your ancestral dynamics.
- Rekindle a sense of belonging and being connected to something bigger than you.
THE Ancestral Throughlines PROCESS
FOCUS: Decide the focus of what change you want to make, where you want to start moving first, and how you will know if it’s working.
EXCAVATE: Gather data from the memory you hold of your ancestral (~3-4 generations back) history and your own personal life events.
ANALYZE: I synthesize and analyze the patterns relevant to your profession, creativity, success, life energy, and specific challenges (like anxiety, stagnation, or lack of focus).
RELATE: We engage in digestible pieces of work to re-relate to the patterns that you are caught up in using my multi-modal Generational & Existential Self-Reclamation tools.
INTEGRATE: Incorporate new rituals and practices to reinforce your shifts as you work toward your goals. We track where forward movement becomes possible and work with the places of resistance.
Ancestral ThroughLines Program Details
- Phase 1: Clarifying and focusing your goals, exploration of your biographical and ancestral history to uncover patterns and the underlying drive of recurrent challenges. (3 sessions + ancestral research)
- Phase 2: Deep work with identified patterns through the somatic, metaphorical, and shamanic tools of Generational & Existential Self-Reclamation. We maintain focus on your goals as we navigate and transform these challenges into strengths and unblock the stuck places that hold you back. (5 full sessions + 2 mini sessions)
Included Components:
- 8 sixty-minute 1:1 sessions
- 2 forty minute 1:1 sessions
- 6 months of email or Voxer access for updates and questions
- Generational & existential pattern research and identification (up to 5 hours of my study time)
- Resources for supportive practices to reinforce your changes
Investment:
- $2970 ($495/month paid over six months)
Ready for Ancestral Throughlines to support your meaningful work?
the first step is clarity
Out of the Fog Assessment & Consultation
Uncover insights into elusive barriers and the impact of early life and ancestral experiences, while reassessing your strategies and support to identify why you’re stuck and navigate a way forward.
Beyond Temporary Fixes:
the investment that keeps on giving
Consider this initiatory work as an investment in your long-term well-being and professional success. The growth or momentum you experience in these 6 months will continue to unfold even after our time together. In fact, most of the shifts will continue to integrate for at least a year.
You’re not just setting goals and trying to do better. Each month brings you to a deeper understanding of yourself opening up new possibilities for your personal and professional life.
If you’re tired of your patterns and loops and ready to really change, this is where it begins.
Science Meets Spirit:
Holistic Healing Grounded in Reality
Think Ancestral Throughlines might be a bit too ‘out there’? Fear not. My unique role as a scientist-mystic means we keep one foot in the realm of science and the other in the healing arts.
This approach is transformative yet grounded, ensuring you feel comfortable, even with the ‘weird’ stuff. Together we can work with any religious or cultural differences – this work is flexible and honors your background. However, there is a prerequisite that you aren’t actively engaged in dogmatic fundamentalism.
If there are specific ancestral or religious customs you adhere to, we’ll respectfully integrate them.
Structured Support for Deep Work
Diving into the depths of generational themes like life, death, and core emotions such as grief, fear, and anger requires readiness.
Ancestral Throughlines is ideal for those who’ve already been doing healing or personal development work.
While change and emotional work can be messy, each session is carefully structured to ensure you leave feeling contained and stabilized. We tackle this work in manageable segments, ensuring the emotional and energetic shifts are within your capacity.
To support you further, the program includes multiple support avenues, allowing you to not feel like you are facing this alone.
ARe you ready to take the first steP?
Out of the Fog Assessment & Consultation
Uncover insights into elusive barriers and the impact of early life and ancestral experiences, while reassessing your strategies and support to identify why you’re stuck and navigate a way forward.
Frequently Asked questions
How do I get started?
If you haven’t completed an Out of the Fog assessment & consultation, go to this page and book one. If in that session we determine this program is a good fit for you now, you will be invited to sign up.
If you’ve already done your assessment and consultation, you can email me at sara@sarabtaylor.com to initiate signing up or to ask any remaining informational questions.
DO I have to start with the assessment session?
I like to do good and efficient work and I’m sure you do too. The best way to know if it is worth investing in this work is to take a little bird’s eye view of things to make sure you have the foundations in place to be successful. This is why we start with the Out of the Fog Assessment and Consultation.
Based on your written reflection and our 1:1 time I will also be able to make specific recommendations and projections about what is going on, what you might be able to expect and what else you’ll need to do to get what you want.
what is the difference between this and Inner landscapes
Ancestral Throughlines has a more chronic focus in that we are looking at patterns or repetitive or persistent challenges that may occur in one or more areas of life over longer periods of time.
Ancestral Throughlines includes extensive generational work and it requires more upfront of your time and energy in that you will likely need to do some research or ask questions of other family members to clarify facts and stories about ancestors. For some this is fun, for others it is uncomfortable.
In some cases, I may recommend doing Inner Landscapes before engaging with extensive ancestral work. This is because we tend to shake things up a bit when we start reworking how you live out your “fate”
In the end, you don’t have to figure out which is a better choice on your own, the initial Out of the Fog Assessment and Consultation is designed to help you determine what the most effective and aligned next steps are.
What is the committment expected of me?
Early on, there will be some additional time spent doing a bit of genealogical investigation.
The majority of change is initiated within your sessions, however, there will be practices that come out of many sessions that you’ll want to have the ability to incorporate into your life.
At the end of sessions, we’ll have time for you to write down the insights (often images or sentences) for you to continue to reflect on and contemplate as you allow them to influence your decisions in life.
I'm not sure I'm ready for this
That makes sense. This is big work and does require that you have some coping tools already. This is part of what we assess in the Out of the Fog Assessment and Consultation. If you’ve joined my email list you’ll have access to single sessions to get a feel for what it’s like to work with me, or you can just get a feel for if we’re a good fit by reading my emails!
Trust your gut. It could be that another time is more appropriate or another practitioner.
Will this clear all my generational trauma?
I believe that it is neither your responsibility nor a possibility to clear all your lineage’s trauma. It’s one of those things that “takes a village” over many generations, you know? Instead, we focus on what you want and tackle what’s in your way, because it is the most effective, potent, and rewarding way to go. What we do in this 6 months is set you up to have experience working with the relevant boulders on your path, so that when you come upon a similar stone later on you know what to do, or can get targeted help if you get stuck.
Depending on what you want, and how much generational trauma is behind you and how it’s been held, you may want to continue working with beyond this 6 months. You can do this with single sessions or with a continuation package that combines all my skills and knowledge to help you continue to carry your fate with more ease.
What If I've already done ancestral work with you
If you’ve already completed work with me that involved an extensive ancestral history (previously called “unbound”) I recommend continuation work through Inner Landscapes.
Because you’ve already initiated ancestral work, we’ll continue to pull from it and all my skills and knowledge will be available to you.
Just email me at sara@sarabtaylor.com to initiate or ask any informational questions you might have.
Bonus: Clients who’ve completed ancestral work (through Ancestral Throughlines or my previous Unbound program) with me also receive 10% off of Inner Landscapes at this time, taking the price to $1350 ($450/month).
Do you have a guarantee?
I work with what is available to be seen in the lineage and that your body and internal wisdom present as ready to be worked with. Sometimes the route is more circuitous than we might like, but I’m not here to force. This in and of itself begins to rewrite old trauma patterns around boundary violations and stuck threat responses like freeze. I do my best to always reflect where we are in a larger change process too, so you know what’s going on. In addition, one of the first things we do is create milestones or evidence markers to know that what we are doing is having an effect.
Through this work, you will discover the deeper layers of patterns going on, and will have choices to make that open up new paths. Sometimes folks don’t want to make those choices and I absolutely respect that. I will support you in your no and your yes.
So while I can’t make guarantees, we can really make sure it’s a worthy investment with an Out of the Fog Assessment and Consultation. I can generally get a sense for what kinds of paces we’ll be working with and that helps us to create reality-based expectations for the work.
And if we start working together and find it really isn’t working or you have a major life change, we can part ways once the time I’ve invested into your case has been compensated.
who is this a good fit for?
This is a good fit if most of the following are true:
- you’ve got some fight left in you. I can’t make you want something you don’t want.
- you are able to be honest and not “do the right thing” based on what you think I expect or anyone else.
- you value the idea of generational healing, connecting with your lineage/ancestors, and leaving a legacy for others
- you want to deepen the ancestral influence on your calling or profession
- you are at a relatively stable place in your current relationships. While some relational conflict is normal and fine, if you’re in the middle of a break-up or divorce we won’t make much headway in other areas, like your career.
- you are not using this work to make you money and fast. This is absolutely not a get-rich-quick route. I’d be highly suspect of anything that claims to be.
- you are not pregnant or in the 4th trimester, that is not a time for these shifts, with potentially rare exceptions.
- you have moved past the stage where the only way to feel okay about yourself is to throw your parents under the bus.
- you do not have a complex personal history of sexual or physical abuse. This can absolutely be worked with, slowly, over longer periods of time. While I have been trained to work with these dynamics, I recommend that we try smaller steps into the work. Single Rolling Thunder sessions may be a good place to start.
take the first step
Out of the Fog Assessment & Consultation
Uncover insights into elusive barriers and the impact of early life and ancestral experiences, while reassessing your strategies and support to identify why you’re stuck and navigate a way forward.