Family is our greatest gift and our greatest challenge. Past generations exert a formidable influence on life patterns. The shortcomings in our families — illness, failed relationships, poverty and unhappiness, create incredible stresses in our lives. Can we walk with confidence and pride in our lives when we come from a background of broken bodies, crushed lives and shattered dreams? Does this mean we are destined to repeat the same unwanted family patterns? The answer is a resounding “NO.”

I invite you to consider whether you are happy. How do you define happiness? Is it having a big house, a luxury car and lots of money? An attractive partner? A well-paying job? A satisfying career? Or is happiness a peaceful, serene life with friends, family and compatible co-workers? Or do you define it in more abstract terms, like having a meaningful life, being stimulated intellectually, emotionally stable, healthy in mind and body, loving and being loved, having a deep spiritual connection? No matter how you define happiness, know that happiness is within your grasp. You no longer need to be ruled by your heredity, you can change your destiny. This is the message of this book.

Even knowing one or two generations gives a person a sense of home, family, place, community and tradition. “My family is from ….” establishes a certain fixed point of reference for a first meeting with a stranger. Without such an awareness, you are at a loss to know who you are compared to others with these links. Our genetic traits or codes are indeed our road maps to life.

However, this road map our heredity does not control our lives. Our DNA does not determine who we are or what we become. Neither does our upbringing. The new science of epigenetics shows we cannot dismiss either factor, but we can understand now how we can control our reality. Our destiny is in our hands. The most significant factor is that when we change, the change affects the future generations too. How cool is that!

The book includes multiple stories of ancestral healing from Ariann’s private Ancestral Lineage Clearing Sessions with clients where ancestors help shift long standing genetic traits and generational family issues.

Read about Lily’s constant fear which arose from her Native American ancestor’s trauma when her tribe was wiped out and how her ancestor shifted her life to change the fear that resonated in the family.

Or read about Evan’s experience of lack of financial stability. In his session he contacted an ancestor whose parents threw him out when they could no longer support all the family and he lived a life of deprivation and struggle. The ancestor shifted the energy of his life to obtain an education as a child so when he left home he was able to create a life of wholeness and happiness and this created a new legacy for his descendants.