Episode 75: Healing Our Ancestral Lineage with Dr. Sahar Martinez
“We are who we are because of the people in our lives.”
-Dr. Sahar Martinez, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Sahar Martinez, PHD. Dr. Sahar is a licensed marriage and family therapist, professor of diversity, and podcast host. For the last decade, Sahar has been supporting clients through transitional phases of life, from a trauma-informed, culturally aware lens. Sahar's clinical focus includes maternal mental health, working with diverse populations, and attachment-focused, trauma-informed therapy. Sahar is deeply passionate about guiding women in their reclamation of self in addition to the endless roles they often take on in society as partners, mothers, sisters, and friends. In this episode, Madison and Sahar speak on what it means to heal lineage from both a spiritual and a therapeutic approach, including discernment of what it yours versus what is your lineage, the importance of being witnessed outside your community, how our societal systems cut us off from healing our lineage, creating a secure attachment to ourselves and much more.
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In this episode, we talk about:
What it means to heal lineage from a spiritual and therapeutic approach
Dr. Sahar's history around lineage healing
Unhooking from our ancestors limiting beliefs, while also honoring them
The importance of being witnessed outside our communities as well as within them
How our societal systems cut us off from healing our lineage
Motherhood and it's invitation to deeper healing
How therapy and coaching impacted Dr. Sahar's ancestral healing
Understanding what wounding is present in your life time and what may be within your lineage
How research, therapy, spirituality, lineage healing, attachment and more all intersect
Immigration, land and how trauma manifests
Creating a secure attachment to self and developing rituals around our needs
How to begin to create "home" in yourself
Why no longer questioning yourself is inherently healing
