Healing Your Wounded Lineage
Includes five in-depth training sessions with live demonstrations and guided practices
Course Description
Discover how inherited trauma patterns shape your present—and learn how embodied, guided lineage work can help you integrate, repair, and reclaim what was missing.
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What’s included in the training?
Here is everything you get for just $197!
Five 90-Minute LIVE Training Sessions led by Dr. Diane Poole Heller and Dr. Alex Howard, two leading experts in trauma healing and integrative approaches to working with intergenerational patterns.
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Session 1 – Understanding the Patterns of Ancestral Trauma
Identify inherited family patterns, explore how ancestral trauma shapes your relationships and identity, and begin healing these wounds from within, even without your ancestors present. -
Session 2 – Unpacking Deficiency: Mapping What You Didn’t Get
Explore unmet core emotional needs, uncover inherited family narratives that shape your inner operating system, and begin shifting patterns of compensation that quietly perpetuate suffering. -
Session 3 – Integrating the Gifts: Embodying the Blessings of Your Ancestors
Learn to recognize inherited strengths and build practices to embody the resilience, wisdom, and authenticity carried within your lineage. -
Session 4 – Reconciliation, Repair & Forgiveness
Learn how to approach reconciliation and forgiveness with discernment while protecting healthy boundaries and transforming how the past lives within you. -
Session 5 – Breaking the Cycle: Creating Your Future with Conscious Awareness
Identify the patterns you are ready to release and create a practical, embodied plan for shaping a future guided by healing rather than inheritance.
Recorded live Q&A with Alex Howard and Diane Poole Heller. Listen in as they respond to participants’ most meaningful questions and offer spontaneous, in-the-moment reflections drawn from decades of trauma-informed practice.
Private Course Portal with Lifetime Access to Course Materials including video recordings, audio, transcripts, demos, and slide handouts.
BONUS: Generational Trauma Self-Assessment
Deepen your insight into how intergenerational trauma may be shaping your life.
This self-assessment and guided reflection tool is designed to help you identify patterns of inherited wounding, unmet needs, and unconscious family loyalties that may be influencing your relationships, emotional responses, and sense of self.
Because generational trauma can be subtle—and often normalized within families—this checklist offers a clear starting point for awareness. Use it to map patterns across generations, clarify areas for healing, and track shifts as you move through the course material.
Available to print, download, or complete digitally as a fillable PDF.
Why take this course?
Emotional withdrawal isn’t just silence or distance, it’s a learned survival strategy.
Intergenerational trauma often shows up as patterns we can’t quite explain, and in ways that can be difficult to track, or even recognize.
Some people feel it as a tendency toward estrangement, or an undercurrent of guilt or obligation in their family system. Others notice emotional needs that never quite feel met., or cycles that repeat, even when we try to choose differently.
You may have already done the work to understand your family history and reflect on your childhood, but still feel like something lingers.
Why?
Because inherited trauma is more than just a story to understand—it lives in our bodies. What gets passed down are nervous system patterns, relational expectations, and unconscious loyalties to those who came before us.
Insight alone rarely resolves that.
Neither does solely analyzing the past, or rushing to reconciliation without honoring boundaries.
This course offers a more grounded path, and an integrative way to work with the wounds, gifts, and challenges that flow between generations..
Through guided practices, live demonstrations, and structured reflections, Alex and Diane share how to:
- Identify inherited patterns without becoming overwhelmed
- Meet unmet needs with compassion and agency
- Integrate both the wounds and the gifts of your ancestry
- Break cycles consciously, rather than unconsciously repeating them
Whether you’re seeking personal healing or a deeper understanding of your family system, this training provides a structured, embodied way to transform what was passed down—without denying it or being defined by it.
What you’ll learn?
In this self-paced, on-demand training, you’ll learn…
- How intergenerational trauma shapes your nervous system, relationships, and sense of identity
- How to map unmet core emotional needs and begin meeting them with conscious awareness
- How to recognize and interrupt inherited patterns before they quietly repeat
- How to integrate both the wounds and the strengths carried through your lineage
- How to approach reconciliation, forgiveness, and boundary-setting in ways that support real healing
Here’s what’s in the training curriculum…
Session 1
Understanding the Patterns of Ancestral Trauma
Family can be our greatest source of love and fulfillment—but also the root of our deepest wounds. Certain patterns of wounding repeat across generations until they are brought to light. In this session, you’ll begin to identify these inherited patterns and learn how healing is possible, even without the physical presence of your ancestors.
What you’ll learn:
- The bridges between past and present—and how they shape your life today
- How ancestral trauma shows up in your relationships, emotions, and identity
- Estrangement (from parents, children, or siblings)—what drives it, and how to heal internally
- Parentification—what happens when a child must become the adult, and how it impacts us later in life
- The subtle, hidden effects of childhood emotional neglect
- Tools to begin healing ancestral wounds within your own heart, mind, and body
Session 2
Unpacking Deficiency: Mapping What You Didn’t Get
At the heart of a wounded lineage are the unmet needs we carry forward. Core emotional needs that were overlooked, or family narratives that became “normal,” can unconsciously shape the operating system of our lives. As children, we relied completely on our caregivers. As adults, we can learn to meet these needs for ourselves—this is where deep healing begins.
What you’ll learn:
- The 3 core emotional needs and how they’re impacted by lineage
- Family stories and inherited narratives that limit us
- How attempts to compensate for inner deficiencies often perpetuate cycles of suffering
Session 3
Integrating the Gifts: Embodying the Blessings of Your Ancestors
When exploring our family history, it’s easy to focus only on wounds. But every lineage also carries immense gifts—resilience, wisdom, creativity, and love. In this session, you’ll learn to embrace the blessings handed down to you, and to embody the strength of your heritage.
What you’ll learn:
- How to identify and celebrate the gifts in your lineage
- Practices to embrace your heritage with pride and compassion
- How to embody your authentic self with an open heart, free from old shame or limitations
Session 4
Reconciliation, Repair & Forgiveness
We can’t change the past—but we can change how it lives within us today. Reconciliation, repair, and forgiveness are powerful healing tools, but they must be approached with care to avoid further harm. In this session, you’ll discover how to use them wisely and in alignment with your truth.
What you’ll learn:
- How to hold multiple perspectives while staying grounded in your own truth
- The practical stages of reconciliation, repair, and forgiveness
- Why forgiveness is ultimately a gift we give ourselves
- How to set and protect boundaries that support healing
Session 5
Breaking the Cycle: Creating Your Future with Conscious Awareness
Understanding your history is powerful—but true transformation happens when you actively choose new ways of being. In this final session, you’ll create a clear, practical plan for breaking old cycles, honoring your ancestors, and stepping into a future aligned with healing, wholeness, and possibility.
What you’ll learn:
- How to define the patterns you are ready to break
- The hidden cost of continuing ancestral cycles
- How to create and commit to a practical action plan for your healing journey
Meet Your Instructors
Self-awareness, used in the right way, empowers us to change. It’s empowers us to heal. We have the potential to break the cycle, and write a new story.
Dr. Alex Howard, has spent the last 20 years working as a therapist and coach specializing in complex chronic illnesses, with an emphasis on working with trauma.
As the Founder and Chairman of The Optimum Health Clinic, Alex manages a team of 25 full-time practitioners supporting thousands of patients in 50+ countries, pioneering online treatment in the field since 2004.
Aside from publishing academic research in the British Medical Journal Open and Psychology and Health, Alex has also authored three books: Why Me? (2003), Decode Your Fatigue (2021) and It’s Not Your Fault: Why Childhood Trauma Shapes You And How To Break Free (2023).
When he’s not working with clients as the creator of the Therapeutic Coaching™ methodology, he documents his therapeutic work with real-life patients via his In Therapy with Alex Howard YouTube series.
More recently, Alex has created some of the largest online conferences in the health and mind-body space, attended by over a million people—including the world’s biggest conference on trauma, the Trauma Super Conference.
Dr. Diane Poole Heller is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and teaching expert in the field of adult attachment theory and trauma resolution.
Her signature approach—DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience)—provides therapists and individuals with relevant skills and practical exercises that facilitate healing from attachment and trauma wounds.
Her work with adult attachment has forged a path for adults with childhood attachment injuries to develop Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) that lead to more connected and fulfilling adult relationships.
She has authored several books, including the widely acclaimed The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships. Her expertise in trauma healing has supported survivors, helpers, and families affected by events such as 9/11, Columbine, and other school shootings.
Through various training programs, books, lectures and her own work as a clinical therapist, Dr. Heller has helped a countless number of people in their healing journey towards experiencing greater intimacy, wholeness and more fulfilling relationships.
She believes that when we heal ourselves first, we heal our families, our communities and the world as a whole.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to be a therapist to benefit from this training?
No. While this course is grounded in trauma-informed and attachment-based principles, it was designed for personal healing as much as professional development. You do not need clinical training to engage meaningfully with the material.
You’ll be guided through structured reflections, embodied practices, and lineage mapping exercises that support insight and integration in your own life.
Because the course explores intergenerational trauma, estrangement, unmet needs, and family wounds, some material may feel activating. We recommend ensuring you have adequate emotional support in place as you move through the course, and bringing your reflections and processing into conversation with a trained professional.
This course is educational and experiential in nature and is not a substitute for individual therapy or mental health treatment.
How long can I access the course materials if I purchase this training today?
You’ll have lifetime access to ALL training materials, including videos, transcripts, worksheets, demos, resources and bonuses too. You may also download, print or save materials at any time to your professional reference library for personal use.
In the interest of privacy, client demo videos are not downloadable.
Are the class sessions live or recorded?
All sessions were recorded live, including the Q&A segments. This reissued training features recordings of all five 90-minute sessions, along with client demonstrations, audio recordings, written transcripts, complementary resources, and exclusive course bonuses.
All of the training is on-demand, so you can learn at your own pace, or revisit sessions more than once.
Are CE credits available for this course?
Continuing Education (CE) credits are not available for this training at this time.
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Is there a refund policy?
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education, personal growth and clinical practice.
Because this is a re-issue of previous of previous training (at a special promotional price) and course materials are downloadable, all sales are final.
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Dr. Alex Howard
Dr. Diane Poole Heller
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- 5 Recorded, On-Demand Training Sessions
- Includes recorded live Q&A: Diane Poole Heller and Alex Howard answer key questions on intergenerational trauma
- Private Course Portal with Lifetime Access to Video Recordings, Audio, Transcripts, and Resources
- PLUS, Exclusive Course Bonuses!
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