Ancestral Healing Made Easy by Natalia O'Sullivan & Terry O’Sullivan

Author:Natalia O'Sullivan & Terry O’Sullivan [Natalia O’Sullivan & Terry O’Sullivan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2021-08-10T00:00:00+00:00

Rosemary’s story

I lived on an Aboriginal mission where, by law, Aborigines had to seek permission to leave for any reason. When I was five, my parents gained an Exemption Certificate exempting them from identifying as Aboriginal. This meant they had to assimilate into white society both under the Assimilation Policy and the Aborigines Protection Act. My parents hoped it would make a better life for both themselves and their children. This was the only way they could legally live outside the mission and it required cutting ties with our Aboriginal culture. Not only that, but it also meant not speaking or listening to our traditional languages.

Our family moved to the town of Clare, where we were the only Aboriginal family. I grew up never hearing my parents talk in the traditional languages and, despite our grandmother being fluent in Kokatha, I never heard her speak it. Such an ongoing invasion of our culture disconnectedus from bothour ancestry andour ancestors.

The death of my mother when I was nine years old meant five of my siblings and I were put into white foster homes, where I experienced every form of abuse – we became the Stolen Generations. I married twice, once at 17 and again at 29. Both of my marriages were to white men who were drinkers. It was in 1987 that my second husband beat me so severely that the police took me to a women’s shelter. I describe this as my ‘rock bottom’, but one day, as I was looking at my battered face in the mirror, my face was superimposed by an ancient Aboriginal grandmother’s face. She told me I needed to find faith and trust in my own abilities, because I was going on a journey.

On leaving the shelter, I began my deeply spiritual but deeply painful healing journey of discovery. Unconsciously, I was now being spiritually guided by my ancestors. I discovered how painful it was to have been removed from my family and become part of the Stolen Generations. I then discovered I was harbouring not just my ancestors’ intergenerational suppressed, unresolved grief, but it was also compounding and complicating my contemporary losses and unresolved grief. I discovered that in suppressing my emotions stemming from grief, it had to go somewhere. In my case, it became externalized, whereby my anger turned to rage and sometimes to violence. After being shown how to express grief, I became more deeply connected to my ancestry, my ancestors and my dreaming totem. Collectively, they all helped me to switch on my intuitive intelligence.

One day, I recall them sharing the following with me: ‘You now have the ability to connect spiritually to us, using your intuitive intelligence, but you must continue your grieving processes.’ They reminded me that in ancient traditional Aboriginal culture, we never had a God! For thousands of generations, all we had was our spiritual ancestors who, living in their ancient intuitive intelligence, sustained the ability to connect, too. They also knew how to cooperate with Mother

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