November 3, 2025 • 15 mins
nspired by a social media prompt from Jonathan Weekes, today's episode presents my personal perspective on using nature-based rituals and shifting hurt and trauma to positivity in an effort to heal generational trauma and honor our ancestors. This connects specifically to the fourth pillar of Personal Rewilding.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to Truth Be Told about Going Wild. I'm your host,
Robert Hensley, and this is the podcast inspired by the
principles of Personal Rewilding. I recently came across a prompt
on social media from a mentor of mine, and I
thought that I would share that with you today because
it was a wonderful opportunity to really think through one
(00:32):
of the pillars of personal rewilding, which is a pillar
number four, honoring the wild ancestors. But the prompt was
what can we do to heal generational wounds or trauma
and honor the natural world in the process, And so
(00:55):
I thought more about this. We do talk a lot
about honoring the wild ancestors and understanding where we came
from and kind of our innate link to the natural
world and what the people before us had gone through
and how that helped to shape our own relationships with
(01:16):
the wild. And then of course we've just come out
of Halloween, which is a holiday really that is about
honoring our ancestors and connecting with and not connecting in
a seance kind of way, but connecting with the spirit
of those who have gone before and honoring their legacy
(01:38):
and what they've given to us. And so I was
thinking about this and I think and now this is
just my personal opinion, and I'm offering it to you guys,
because I think that it could help in some instances.
I think that one of the easiest ways that we
(01:59):
as families, as relatives, as kin, whether that is immediate
family or within a community, is to come together in
a way that gives us an opportunity to speak, to
discuss what trauma or hurt or wounds there might be,
(02:25):
and to again accept, acknowledge, listen here and work through
those things together in a space that is also giving
us an opportunity to create. Right. So even if a
group of people are coming together, you know, say an
(02:47):
immediate family, like Lord only knows, in my family, we've
got a lot of trauma, a lot of generational stuff,
a lot of a lot of wounds that have been
there for a long time. But I think that when
you can bring people together right in a way that
we say, listen, we're going to get together and we're
going to talk about this, and we're gonna we're gonna
(03:08):
bury it, We're going to talk about it, we're going
to acknowledge it, we're going to accept what's going on
and how everyone is feeling, and then we are going
to bury it and let something grow from that. And
so you get together and you plant a tree, where
you plant a couple of trees, right, And in some instances,
some of those wounds are so old that the people
who actually cause them are no longer here. So in
(03:30):
some ways it's an opportunity also to forgive. We may
not always forget, but we can forgive, right, and we
can decide what to do with that moving forward. But
planting a tree, planting a garden, to clean a waterway,
to you know, do a trail pick up, or you know,
(03:52):
anything where we're outside and we are again interacting with
the natural world in a way that is supporting life,
supporting good, bringing something new in place of something old.
I think those are all wonderful ways of creating ritual
(04:15):
that help to honor the wild ancestors right, heal generational trauma,
heal wounds, and and give us a sense of belonging,
a sense of place. It all kind of comes back
to this idea of placemaking and making sure that we
(04:37):
again are are working to reconnect with the natural world
as we are trying to you know, live in this
space of healing and positivity. I know it's a lot
to think about. It was a lot for me to
think about in the prompt, But I think that anytime
that we can ritualize something like that, where we can
(05:03):
choose to take specific steps and give ourselves a format
or a platform to really change how we're feeling or
to make sure that we are feeling heard. And then again,
the big part of this, and I know this is
an issue with my family, is not always having the
(05:28):
report and a and an open mind from everyone that
needs to be involved. Right, Like, there are people in
my family that I can't really go to them and say, Okay,
we're going to plant a treat today and talk about
this thing that happened or this you know, argument that's
(05:48):
been lingering or this feud that has gone on for
too long because they look at you like you're stupid.
And that's you know what, And that's the thing, right,
because sometimes those rituals are just for you. You may
want to include other people. You may want to do
good for others, and sometimes they're not ready right, They're
(06:10):
not in a place where they can accept that, and
you have to accept that that's the case, right, that
that is part of that's just going to be a
part of whatever that is right. And we can really
only do what we need to do for ourselves, you know.
So sometimes those rituals are meant for multiple people, for
(06:34):
other people. You hope that other people will join you
and take part, and sometimes they don't. Right, Sometimes you
are going to practice that ritual alone. And even if
you can only just heal yourself, that is you taking
responsibility for something, creating something out of that chaos or
that negativity. And then what I really love about this
(06:57):
too is that once we've healed that in ourselves, it
doesn't get passed on to the next generation. It doesn't
get passed on to the immediate generation in your line. Right,
So maybe you're not going to be able to solve
this issue for your nieces and nephews and their children,
(07:22):
but maybe you could do that for your children. Maybe
you're solving this or healing this wound so that it
doesn't trickle into or pass on to your children or
their children or their children's children. And those those are
the changes that are really important, right because you have
to stop that cycle of hurt and pain and trauma. Somewhere,
(07:46):
and I know people like to think about like, well,
you know, if it's something that happened to so and so,
like you know, and they're not letting it go, or
you know, how is that affecting? Because the thing is
right is that when we live with that much trauma
or pain or hurt, it really does and science has
proven this, it changes our DNA. Right, we end up
(08:08):
carrying that trauma and passing it on, right, and then
psychologically also, if we are living with trauma, if it
has affected our lives in any way, right, then it continues.
We end up passing those ideas, those thoughts, that negativity
onto the next generation. Right. Have you ever kind of
(08:32):
been in one of those situations where you meet someone
who you know, you find out that you're related, and
then you're just kind of like, I went, why have
our families never you know, no one ever talks, so
like how like how do I not know? You know?
And you go and you ask your mom or your
dad and you're just kind of like, oh, well, you know,
I met so and so and they said that you know,
we were kind of talking, we kind of figured out
(08:53):
that we're cousins. You know, why do we not. We
never see them at a family reunion or we never
talk to their family, and they only live a street over,
like you know, and then it kind of comes out that,
you know, two generations back, there was a fallout, there
was a fight, and they decided that they were never
going to speak to you know, this other person again.
(09:16):
And that ends up getting passed down, you know, not
because anyone, not because anyone actually remembers what actually happened
or what was going on. But it's just because it
became this, it became this generational trauma. It just got
passed down from one person to the next, even though
(09:36):
there is no real discernible reason not to have buried
that hatchet or fixed that feud or but yeah, I mean,
and again, when we have that stuff that's passed down,
it really does block everything else, you know. And so
(09:57):
how that applies to personal rewilding. When someone has had
a hard time right with nature right, and a lot
of times it's because they were in this mindset that
they had to conquer the natural world, and the natural
world isn't meant to be conquered. So it kicked somebody's
butt and now they have this chip on their shoulder
(10:18):
or had a chip on their shoulder about what didn't
work for them, trying to live in conjunction with nature.
But that was the thing. They weren't really living in nature,
they were trying to rule over it, you know. And
so then that shapes this whole thing. It creates this
sense of despair and unease about the natural world, and
(10:44):
then that just gets passed on to their kids, and
then their kids remember what grandpas or their parents said,
and then they passed it on to the grandchildren and
their grandchildren remember what grandpa said about you know, this
place or you know how nature had you know, almost
wiped the family out or whatever. And then it because
it builds this thing that just continues, and rather than
(11:10):
trying to fix that, we just accept it, right until
we get to a point where all of a sudden
we feel like we're disconnected from the universe and we're
not sure why we're in this place of rage and
disillusionment and depression, and you know, and then someone comes
along and says, wow, you know, maybe you need to
(11:33):
you know, reconnect to the natural world, kind of start over,
go back to the beginning, you know, And then they're like, oh,
I can't do that because my grandpa said. And then
that's when you realize, Okay, so I'm carrying not what's
happened to me. I'm not allowing my own experiences to
color this situation. I'm allowing what happened to my grandfather
(11:56):
to color this situation. And I haven't actually had any
experiences of my own because I've avoided them because I
didn't want to have negative experiences the way that he
had negative experiences, right, And that's how that starts, you know,
(12:17):
And that is something that sometimes it's so simple, as
you know, someone doesn't learn how to swim, and then
you find out that their parents never taught them how
to swim or didn't take them near water. And you
find out that the parent only did that because they
have this innate fear of water, even though they never
had any experiences on the water. And you go back
down the line three generations, and so and so had
(12:41):
a child who drowned, right, somebody had a child who drowned,
and it scared the crap out of the family. And
so from that point on, children just didn't go near
the water. They didn't water became not welcome in their circle.
And you know, and it becomes this thing that just
kind of continues for generations and you're not even sure
why or how it got that bar right, So yeah,
(13:04):
we don't. I think again the way for me, and
again this is for me. You've got to find what
works for yourself. But I think that for me, the
idea of creating rituals that are connected to or that
can connect back to the natural world. So this idea
(13:25):
of you know, planting things, planting gardens, caring for gardens,
caring for trails, caring for waterways, these acts of creativity
or creation right, and bringing life and positivity to that situation,
and using that time and that space is a way
of you know, altering our perspective on the natural world,
(13:52):
on our families and seeing how that works right, using
that time as again a way of trying to heal
those connections, heal those wounds, and again move forward together
in a way that is honoring not just your ancestors,
but honoring the natural world. So thank you so much
(14:18):
for listening. This was a little longer of an episode
than I had intended, but that's all right. I rattled
a little bit. Hope you find this interesting and that
you start to think about your own rituals and ways
to heal trauma and generational wounds in your family and
in your line. Remember there are three opportunities each week
for new content from the Truth Be Told Family of
podcasts on the Club Paranormal channel on YouTube. That's Tony
(14:42):
Sweet on Fridays with the Original Truth Be Told, Bonnie
Berker on Wednesdays with Truth Be Told Transformation, and of
course Truth Be Told about Going Wild every Monday. And
all of those shows go live at three pm Pacific
six Eastern on their respective days. And if you'd like
to know more about personal rewilding or you're interest in
finding out more about what I'm doing, please feel free
(15:03):
to visit my website at www dot rh Nature Reconnect
dot com. Again that's r H Nature Reconnect Altogether dot com.
And then until next time
Welcome to Truth Be Told about Going Wild. I'm your host,
Robert Hensley, and this is the podcast inspired by the
principles of Personal Rewilding. I recently came across a prompt
on social media from a mentor of mine, and I
thought that I would share that with you today because
it was a wonderful opportunity to really think through one
(00:32):
of the pillars of personal rewilding, which is a pillar
number four, honoring the wild ancestors. But the prompt was
what can we do to heal generational wounds or trauma
and honor the natural world in the process, And so
(00:55):
I thought more about this. We do talk a lot
about honoring the wild ancestors and understanding where we came
from and kind of our innate link to the natural
world and what the people before us had gone through
and how that helped to shape our own relationships with
(01:16):
the wild. And then of course we've just come out
of Halloween, which is a holiday really that is about
honoring our ancestors and connecting with and not connecting in
a seance kind of way, but connecting with the spirit
of those who have gone before and honoring their legacy
(01:38):
and what they've given to us. And so I was
thinking about this and I think and now this is
just my personal opinion, and I'm offering it to you guys,
because I think that it could help in some instances.
I think that one of the easiest ways that we
(01:59):
as families, as relatives, as kin, whether that is immediate
family or within a community, is to come together in
a way that gives us an opportunity to speak, to
discuss what trauma or hurt or wounds there might be,
(02:25):
and to again accept, acknowledge, listen here and work through
those things together in a space that is also giving
us an opportunity to create. Right. So even if a
group of people are coming together, you know, say an
(02:47):
immediate family, like Lord only knows, in my family, we've
got a lot of trauma, a lot of generational stuff,
a lot of a lot of wounds that have been
there for a long time. But I think that when
you can bring people together right in a way that
we say, listen, we're going to get together and we're
going to talk about this, and we're gonna we're gonna
(03:08):
bury it, We're going to talk about it, we're going
to acknowledge it, we're going to accept what's going on
and how everyone is feeling, and then we are going
to bury it and let something grow from that. And
so you get together and you plant a tree, where
you plant a couple of trees, right, And in some instances,
some of those wounds are so old that the people
who actually cause them are no longer here. So in
(03:30):
some ways it's an opportunity also to forgive. We may
not always forget, but we can forgive, right, and we
can decide what to do with that moving forward. But
planting a tree, planting a garden, to clean a waterway,
to you know, do a trail pick up, or you know,
(03:52):
anything where we're outside and we are again interacting with
the natural world in a way that is supporting life,
supporting good, bringing something new in place of something old.
I think those are all wonderful ways of creating ritual
(04:15):
that help to honor the wild ancestors right, heal generational trauma,
heal wounds, and and give us a sense of belonging,
a sense of place. It all kind of comes back
to this idea of placemaking and making sure that we
(04:37):
again are are working to reconnect with the natural world
as we are trying to you know, live in this
space of healing and positivity. I know it's a lot
to think about. It was a lot for me to
think about in the prompt, But I think that anytime
that we can ritualize something like that, where we can
(05:03):
choose to take specific steps and give ourselves a format
or a platform to really change how we're feeling or
to make sure that we are feeling heard. And then again,
the big part of this, and I know this is
an issue with my family, is not always having the
(05:28):
report and a and an open mind from everyone that
needs to be involved. Right, Like, there are people in
my family that I can't really go to them and say, Okay,
we're going to plant a treat today and talk about
this thing that happened or this you know, argument that's
(05:48):
been lingering or this feud that has gone on for
too long because they look at you like you're stupid.
And that's you know what, And that's the thing, right,
because sometimes those rituals are just for you. You may
want to include other people. You may want to do
good for others, and sometimes they're not ready right, They're
(06:10):
not in a place where they can accept that, and
you have to accept that that's the case, right, that
that is part of that's just going to be a
part of whatever that is right. And we can really
only do what we need to do for ourselves, you know.
So sometimes those rituals are meant for multiple people, for
(06:34):
other people. You hope that other people will join you
and take part, and sometimes they don't. Right, Sometimes you
are going to practice that ritual alone. And even if
you can only just heal yourself, that is you taking
responsibility for something, creating something out of that chaos or
that negativity. And then what I really love about this
(06:57):
too is that once we've healed that in ourselves, it
doesn't get passed on to the next generation. It doesn't
get passed on to the immediate generation in your line. Right,
So maybe you're not going to be able to solve
this issue for your nieces and nephews and their children,
(07:22):
but maybe you could do that for your children. Maybe
you're solving this or healing this wound so that it
doesn't trickle into or pass on to your children or
their children or their children's children. And those those are
the changes that are really important, right because you have
to stop that cycle of hurt and pain and trauma. Somewhere,
(07:46):
and I know people like to think about like, well,
you know, if it's something that happened to so and so,
like you know, and they're not letting it go, or
you know, how is that affecting? Because the thing is
right is that when we live with that much trauma
or pain or hurt, it really does and science has
proven this, it changes our DNA. Right, we end up
(08:08):
carrying that trauma and passing it on, right, and then
psychologically also, if we are living with trauma, if it
has affected our lives in any way, right, then it continues.
We end up passing those ideas, those thoughts, that negativity
onto the next generation. Right. Have you ever kind of
(08:32):
been in one of those situations where you meet someone
who you know, you find out that you're related, and
then you're just kind of like, I went, why have
our families never you know, no one ever talks, so
like how like how do I not know? You know?
And you go and you ask your mom or your
dad and you're just kind of like, oh, well, you know,
I met so and so and they said that you know,
we were kind of talking, we kind of figured out
(08:53):
that we're cousins. You know, why do we not. We
never see them at a family reunion or we never
talk to their family, and they only live a street over,
like you know, and then it kind of comes out that,
you know, two generations back, there was a fallout, there
was a fight, and they decided that they were never
going to speak to you know, this other person again.
(09:16):
And that ends up getting passed down, you know, not
because anyone, not because anyone actually remembers what actually happened
or what was going on. But it's just because it
became this, it became this generational trauma. It just got
passed down from one person to the next, even though
(09:36):
there is no real discernible reason not to have buried
that hatchet or fixed that feud or but yeah, I mean,
and again, when we have that stuff that's passed down,
it really does block everything else, you know. And so
(09:57):
how that applies to personal rewilding. When someone has had
a hard time right with nature right, and a lot
of times it's because they were in this mindset that
they had to conquer the natural world, and the natural
world isn't meant to be conquered. So it kicked somebody's
butt and now they have this chip on their shoulder
(10:18):
or had a chip on their shoulder about what didn't
work for them, trying to live in conjunction with nature.
But that was the thing. They weren't really living in nature,
they were trying to rule over it, you know. And
so then that shapes this whole thing. It creates this
sense of despair and unease about the natural world, and
(10:44):
then that just gets passed on to their kids, and
then their kids remember what grandpas or their parents said,
and then they passed it on to the grandchildren and
their grandchildren remember what grandpa said about you know, this
place or you know how nature had you know, almost
wiped the family out or whatever. And then it because
it builds this thing that just continues, and rather than
(11:10):
trying to fix that, we just accept it, right until
we get to a point where all of a sudden
we feel like we're disconnected from the universe and we're
not sure why we're in this place of rage and
disillusionment and depression, and you know, and then someone comes
along and says, wow, you know, maybe you need to
(11:33):
you know, reconnect to the natural world, kind of start over,
go back to the beginning, you know, And then they're like, oh,
I can't do that because my grandpa said. And then
that's when you realize, Okay, so I'm carrying not what's
happened to me. I'm not allowing my own experiences to
color this situation. I'm allowing what happened to my grandfather
(11:56):
to color this situation. And I haven't actually had any
experiences of my own because I've avoided them because I
didn't want to have negative experiences the way that he
had negative experiences, right, And that's how that starts, you know,
(12:17):
And that is something that sometimes it's so simple, as
you know, someone doesn't learn how to swim, and then
you find out that their parents never taught them how
to swim or didn't take them near water. And you
find out that the parent only did that because they
have this innate fear of water, even though they never
had any experiences on the water. And you go back
down the line three generations, and so and so had
(12:41):
a child who drowned, right, somebody had a child who drowned,
and it scared the crap out of the family. And
so from that point on, children just didn't go near
the water. They didn't water became not welcome in their circle.
And you know, and it becomes this thing that just
kind of continues for generations and you're not even sure
why or how it got that bar right, So yeah,
(13:04):
we don't. I think again the way for me, and
again this is for me. You've got to find what
works for yourself. But I think that for me, the
idea of creating rituals that are connected to or that
can connect back to the natural world. So this idea
(13:25):
of you know, planting things, planting gardens, caring for gardens,
caring for trails, caring for waterways, these acts of creativity
or creation right, and bringing life and positivity to that situation,
and using that time and that space is a way
of you know, altering our perspective on the natural world,
(13:52):
on our families and seeing how that works right, using
that time as again a way of trying to heal
those connections, heal those wounds, and again move forward together
in a way that is honoring not just your ancestors,
but honoring the natural world. So thank you so much
(14:18):
for listening. This was a little longer of an episode
than I had intended, but that's all right. I rattled
a little bit. Hope you find this interesting and that
you start to think about your own rituals and ways
to heal trauma and generational wounds in your family and
in your line. Remember there are three opportunities each week
for new content from the Truth Be Told Family of
podcasts on the Club Paranormal channel on YouTube. That's Tony
(14:42):
Sweet on Fridays with the Original Truth Be Told, Bonnie
Berker on Wednesdays with Truth Be Told Transformation, and of
course Truth Be Told about Going Wild every Monday. And
all of those shows go live at three pm Pacific
six Eastern on their respective days. And if you'd like
to know more about personal rewilding or you're interest in
finding out more about what I'm doing, please feel free
(15:03):
to visit my website at www dot rh Nature Reconnect
dot com. Again that's r H Nature Reconnect Altogether dot com.
And then until next time
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