Break Free From Midlife Ancestral Patterns
Break free from midlife ancestral patterns and discover your own power. In this episode of Her Second Stage Podcast – Rediscovering How to Live Boldly and Authentically, host Hilda Lunderstedt interviews Elizabeth Kipp. They explore how ancestral imprints shape women’s experiences—especially during pivotal life transitions.
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Understanding Ancestral Influence
Many accomplished women reach midlife and notice that invisible burdens linger beyond personal experiences. These burdens can include scarcity mentality, separation, and chronic pain. As Elizabeth shares, ancestral patterns aren’t just about past generations. They also include imprints from culture, environment, and personal history. She describes our lives as “Russian nested dolls,” with layers of family, culture, and societal beliefs that all affect our present.
What Is Ancestral Clearing?
Ancestral Clearing is an energy modality pioneered by Howard Wills and further developed and taught by John Newton. It’s one approach among many in the broader landscape of ancestral healing. Unlike general ancestral healing, which uses various rituals and perspectives, ancestral clearing has its own approach to helping people release energetic imprints that no longer serve. This helps women reclaim their creativity, joy, and well-being. As Elizabeth Kipp notes, “Part of my healing involved being able to release the ancestral burden.”
Why Midlife Is the Perfect Time
Women enter their second stage in life with the challenges of empty-nesting, menopause, and reigniting their life purpose. Ancestral clearing offers freedom from limiting beliefs that may have hindered their authentic expression. This period marks profound changes in energy and creativity. Elizabeth Kipp experienced a personal shift: “My creative energy moved from my womb up to my heart,” allowing old bindings and inherited burdens to fall away.
The Power of Perspective: From Separation to Oneness
The conversation dives deeply into competition, scarcity, and separation—patterns often rooted in patriarchal and evolutionary history. Instead of perpetuating duality and competition, Elizabeth and Hilda encourage shifting to unity and oneness. Quantum healing suggests all possibilities exist in the present moment, meaning transformative change is possible now.
Richard Rohr’s idea of “longing for radical unity” is emphasized. We move our decisions and perspectives from the mind to the heart for deeper compassion and connection. Even our relationship with nature reflects profound unity and interdependence, as explained by the breath cycle between humans and trees.
Healing Chronic Pain and Emotional Burdens
Chronic pain, whether physical or emotional, is often rooted in stress responses and ancestral burdens. Elizabeth describes her journey of healing from over 40 years of pain by realigning with the Creator and releasing multigenerational traumas. She highlights the importance of recognizing pain not as an enemy but as valuable information for transformation.
Experiencing Ancestral Clearing
Listeners received a powerful experience of ancestral clearing—a prayerful practice inviting the release of burdens from generations of trauma, abuse, scarcity, and religious oppression. As energy moved, Hilda and others noted shifts in heart and throat spaces, opening new pathways for healing and self-compassion.
Empowering Women Beyond Ancestral Wounds
A profound discussion of the Magdalene wound underscores how ancestral trauma affects women’s sexuality, power, and intuition. As more women heal and reclaim their sovereignty, they pave the way for future generations to step into unity and wholeness faster.
Breaking free from midlife ancestral patterns is a transformative journey that empowers women to release unnecessary burdens and awaken to deeper joy, purpose, and oneness. Through ancestral clearing, mindful perspective shifts, and compassion, we can heal ourselves and create lasting impact for those who follow.
