Ancestral Healing

In this episode, Maxine Divon shares her personal journey into the self and spirituality for a discussion about the way our ancestral history impacts us. Maxine shares from her personal experience - as a woman in the Persian Jewish community and in the business world -  and from the fields she’s studied including Jungian Psychology, Ancestral Healing, Archetypal Astrology and more recently Kabbalah. Her and Millie unpack various traumas and gifts passed through generations of Persian Jewry, and explore tools for doing this kind of inner work in a self-regulated way, so that everyone is  able to receive the gifts and growth that come from self-inquiry, without reactivating past cycles of wounds.

Mentions:

•  www.MaxineDivon.com or [e-mail]
• Rabbi Tirza Firestone - Wounds into Wisdom book
• Caroline Myss - Sacred Contracts book on archetypes
• Terry Real (family pathology quote)

Outline: 

• Introducing Maxine - How we Met, Her Story
• ~7 mins - Persian Jewish story and reclaiming our heritage (Maxine’s 23&Me)
• ~14 mins - What is Ancestral Healing? Rupture & Repair; Ancestral Gifts; Kabbalistic Wisdom; Surviving vs. Thriving
• ~30 mins - Collective healing: introducing Archetypes and the “sister wound”; understanding the trauma vortex; Persian ideas of “ghar” and “aberoo”
• ~50 mins - Carl Jung’s concept of individuation; the ultimate Persian Jewish archetype, Queen Esther!
• ~58 mins - Celebrating the Matriarchs; more on Jungian Individuation vs. Separation; Reframing our Personal Narratives
• ~1:09 Maxine’s Spiritual Journey & Sacred Wound; finding our cosmic light
• ~1:16 Persian Wrap Up ;) & an Invitation to Persian women who want to participate in collective healing; Becoming Butterflies 🦋 

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