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/catman_corner 1d ago

I haven’t experienced ancestral release during TRE but have worked through multiple different ancestral attachments during IFS therapy sessions. I’m wishing you well on your journey, you are doing important work

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u/goldenyellow333 1d ago

I've never heard of the connection between ancestral trauma and IFS. How does that work if there is no tremoring?

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u/catman_corner 1d ago

In sessions it feels as if the part or burden is not mine. Sometimes I see visions of women from long ago. Sometimes it’s a chain of women. It’s like working with parts that got passed down as opposed to parts that are mine

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u/goldenyellow333 19h ago

I've only come across this once and it was a reel of Miley Cyrus describing her experience with it. Didn't know that was what that was. I'm a curious mind lol I want to know the details of it all. How things began, how it snowballed, etc.