What if the anxiety, grief, or fear you’ve struggled with for years is a burden you inherited—not one you earned?
This week, Tami Simon speaks with Richard Schwartz—founder of Internal Family Systems and author of the bestselling No Bad Parts—and Tamala Floyd, psychotherapist, IFS lead trainer, and author of Listening: When Parts Speak: A Practical Guide to Healing with IFS Therapy and Ancestor Wisdom. Together, they explore how IFS and ancestral healing converge to help us release intergenerational trauma at its root.
Join Tami, Dick, and Tamala to explore:
- What “legacy burdens” are in IFS—and how to recognize when what you’re carrying came from someone else
- How personal, ethnic, and cultural legacy burdens operate differently—and why racism, historical trauma, and collective suffering require their own healing
- The concept of the “well ancestor”: why every lineage has one, and how to invite them into your healing
- Heirlooms vs. burdens: how our ancestral lines carry gifts as well as wounds—and how to receive them
- Why legacy burdens are often easier to release than personal ones—and what fear most commonly gets in the way
- Tamala’s guided ancestral meditation, offered live: a practice for releasing what no longer serves you
- What we offer future generations simply by doing our own inner work
The episode includes a full guided meditation led by Tamala Floyd—drawn directly from her ancestors—that listeners can return to again and again.
Listen now and begin your own healing across generations. →
This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.
