In this compassionate, eye-opening episode, Lisa and shamanic teacher Evelyn Rysdyk explore one of the most common — and often unspoken — barriers to ancestral healing: What if you don’t know your ancestors… or you do, and you want nothing to do with them?

Evelyn offers a powerful reframe: your lineage is far bigger than the handful of relatives who may have caused harm. The ancestral field contains thousands of supportive beings — and you can choose who you work with.

Together they explore:

* Why you can safely “skip” harmful generations and connect only with loving, well ancestors

* How to call in a spirit mother or spirit father from your wider lineage when your real parents failed you

* How these ancestral beings can repair the wounds of a childhood that lacked nurture, protection, or belonging

* Why not knowing your biological family doesn’t block you from receiving lineage support — the ancestors can still find you

* How trauma, estrangement, and displacement create a tear in the fabric of identity — and the rituals that help reweave it

* The surprising emotional legitimacy that emerges when you connect with the “bigger family” watching over you

This conversation is especially healing for adoptees, children of abusive households, and anyone who carries a complicated relationship with their family tree. It gently reminds us: You may not know them, but they know you. And some of them have been waiting to step forward.

Visit Evelyn’s website at spiritpassages.com

Lisa Bonnice is an award-winning author, podcaster, and former stand-up comic whose work blends humor, heart, and spiritual depth.

Her latest novel, Castle Gate, is a historical fiction saga rooted in ancestral trauma and the 1924 Castle Gate Mine Disaster, available in hardcover, paperback, ebook and audiobook.

Her book Fear of Our Father, co-authored with Stacey M. Kananen, was recently made into a Lifetime movie, Monster in the Family.

Learn more at lisabonnice.com and castlegatebook.com.

This interview is part of the Ancestral Healing Summit 2020, a free online event. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network, used with permission. All rights reserved.

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