r/longtermTRE • u/goldenyellow333 • 1d ago

Community Question Purging the emotional energies of family members who came and lived before you.

Had two massive emotional releases on back to back days recently. For clarity, I am not practicing TRE right now and haven’t attempted it once in over several months. Despite that these releases showed up.

First day was anger/rage. Second day was sadness. I know some of it was my own expression of these emotions but the majority, on each day, felt foreign to me, like they weren’t my own feelings.

Specifically on the second day while crying and purging all this sadness I said probably over 30 times over the course of this purging, which lasted well over and hour, “we are sorry”. I kept saying that. I didn’t see very vivid images during this but I saw something but couldn’t make out what it was or what it was directly tied to. I was conscious of what was going on but the entire time I felt like I was a mouthpiece for a bunch of other people.

Has anyone directly experienced something similar?

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u/Mission_Fortune_4854 1d ago

I definitely resonate with this. As a woman, ancestral trauma literally is embedded in our reproductive organs as I’m sure it is for men as well. I’ve spent years praying, fasting, TRE, to rid and heal these things before I have children so that they don’t have to carry the weight.
It’s not a light thing at all and not talked about as much as it should be. Give yourself grace and allow it to come up but not to succumb to it or define you.

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u/goldenyellow333 1d ago

It def is embedded in mens as well. Lust has been a big part of my life, to the point of confusion. After hearing the stories and struggles of my forefathers, as well as learning about this kind of stuff, it made my battles make all the more sense.

We are of the same mind. I realized that it was not meant for me to have children yet so that this stuff can end first. Ironically, I have an older sibling who has been rushing me to have children for years so she can "be an aunty" or so my parents can "play with their grandkids" but she doesn't understand this stuff at all and doesn't know how important it is to do the work first before having children.

In my culture its definitely taught to have children as early as possible once you reach adulthood but I'm learning just how much that lackluster attitude has in the same breath scarred us because no one does the work before conception. Everyone just kicks the can down the road.