Breaking the Family Script 08/17/20 Living From Happiness

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">George Kamana Hunter (GK Hunter) has a rich ancestral lineage, including Irish, northern European, and Mohawk. In this episode, George and Melanie talk a lot about ancestral or inherited trauma and how to begin healing.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">In the Forward to George's book,</span> <span class="s1"><em>Healing Our Bloodlines: The 8 Realizations of Generational Liberation,</em></span> <span class= "s1">Dr. Eduardo Duran writes “I have found that most, if not all of the symptoms that we treat in many of our healthcare settings have their genesis in trauma, also know as “Injury where blood doesn’t flow” by indigenous ways of knowing. The injury where blood doesn’t flow becomes part of the bloodlines that carry the injury into subsequent generations.”</span></p> <p class="p1">This episode covers a lot of intriguing ground.</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">After 15 years of working as an intuitive healer with Jewish Holocaust Survivors, Native Americans, the homeless, veterans, physicians, and community leaders, GK Hunter developed a step-by-step process to unburdening the heavy history that we inherit from our ancestors.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Based on those years of research and experiences, he created a model of healing which he wrote about in his book,</span> <span class="s1">Healing Our Bloodlines: The 8 Realizations of Generational Liberation.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Hunter was the director of</span> <span class="s1">Sakura & Pearls:</span> <span class= "s1">Healing from World War 2</span><span class="s1">, a documentary about Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb meeting the American survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">He's made presentations at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Cornell University, and been a guest on NPR’s</span> <span class="s1">All Things Considered</span><span class="s1">.</span></p> <p class="p1"><a href="https://gkhunter.com/"><em><spa