Healing Generational and Past Life Trauma Through the Stories of Our Lives
- Feb 19
- 9 min read
Sheila J. Wood, PhD, teaches us how our minds and souls affect our physical well-being. Using her understanding of both science and spirituality, she has developed unique and impactful energy healing modalities. She brings awareness of ancestral and soul lineage energies that are affecting our current health.
The premise for this work lies in the strong belief that we are all challenged by the need to be fully ourselves. When we can step into the vastness of worlds that aid us, carry us, nurture us, and transform our outlook, our vision trains on what we can become. Opening one’s eyes to new beginnings can be intimidating, maybe even terrifying. It can be likened to a vastly moving treadmill that cannot be slowed down or modified in any way. But the treasures of emergence are great, the opportunities for expansion are abundant.
Opening the veil
In this book, To Infinity and Back: The Power of Spiritual Mediumship and Akashic Healing, two pathways, guided by the luminous Source, converge, one connects to what lies beyond ordinary perception and one provides a way to bring that wisdom into daily life with tangible, healing effects. Spiritual mediumship offers a bridge between earthly experiences and the timeless currents that flow through all beings. This is not about escapism or sensational sights, but about guidance, resonance, and a deeper sense of belonging, bringing the assurance that love endures, memory preserves, and the soul remains witness to the sacred tapestry of life.
Akashic healing, drawing from the Akashic Records, which is the living library of all thoughts, events, and possibilities, provides a map for transformation. It is a practice of listening deeply, to the body, to the psyche, to the subtle energies that energize our choices, and to the echoes of past patterns that may still shape our present. The intention is not to control fate, but to harmonize it while inviting new possibilities, releasing what no longer serves, and aligning with a more authentic, expansive version of ourselves.
Who is this book written for?
The book is written for seekers at every level, for those curious about what lies beyond ordinary perception, for practitioners who wish to deepen their craft, and for individuals seeking practical tools to heal, forgive, and reclaim agency in their lives. You will find stories that illuminate how mediumship and Akashic healing have touched lives in compassionate, extraordinary ways - without sensationalism, always anchored in responsibility and discernment. You will find a clear, actionable framework for developing sensitivity, ethical practice, and reliable discernment so you can work with guidance in a grounded, supportive manner. Additionally, you will learn and perhaps adopt techniques, meditations, and exercises designed to integrate spiritual insight into everyday living, relationships, health, creativity, and purpose.
At its heart, this book is an invitation to a practice of luminous kindness, to listen with the heart, to speak with integrity, and to act with love. It affirms that healing is not a retreat from reality but a deepening into it and an invitation to ride the currents of infinity, returning with a clearer sense of self, a stronger capacity to serve, and a renewed trust in the timeless intelligence that animates all life.
This book is dedicated to those souls who have agreed to share parts of their journey to help others. The reason that transcriptions are so important to the reader is that the imminent presence of spirit prevails and intercedes when an important aspect of a person’s essence needs release, transmutation, transfiguration, mirroring out, or simple visibility. As humans we all have layers of consciousness that build throughout lifetime intervals from a succession of incarnations. That energy stays with us and although it is not active in our awareness at every waking moment, it can and does get accessed and at time triggers aberrant emotions that may have nothing to do with the present situation. It then becomes imperative that we have the tools to discriminate between what happened then and what is happening now. Hopefully you will see, as the Spirit-directed sessions progress, the ultimate order that is displayed and how pearls of wisdom are exposed to me as a healer. This, in turn, guides me to be conduit for best practices with Divine energy from Source as the healing composite.
An excerpt from – Chapter 1
Prefaced by basic metaphysical principles, meditation, mediumship, and Akashic Records in a healing modality, the session starts as a ‘navigating life’ session but dramatically shifts to address the suicide of a parent experienced at a very young age and the related question of inherited suicidal ideations.
The following session brought the change in perspective that was needed to better understand the suicide of a parent, which in turn helped to reconcile the childhood trauma that had resulted from this tragedy. A summary of the transcript follows. One of the most important aspects of this session was the bravery it took for this person to be open about the pain that she had been carrying since childhood. As you will see, it wasn’t until well into the reading and after Spirit led us back to childhood that information came forward to enable clearing of confused emotion. Relief from her pain of ‘not knowing’ was achieved through mediumship as it served to access information that helped heal her deep wounds. Her story is shared below with appreciation.
‘He was a great father… He was my best friend.’
One of the most poignant sessions I have experienced was with a dedicated mom, the matriarch of her family, striving to help support her daughter and grandson. We talked about life issues, finances, planning for education, health, and toxic relatives. The interesting thing about this session was the impact that was delivered late in the session from which lifelong reverberations emerged. As we worked through issues with help from the Records, we were approaching the closing of our time together. When I asked her if there was anything else we needed to explore, I was instructed by Spirit to return to her childhood. Following this, I inquired about the most traumatic event in her childhood and at what age it occurred. She stated an age but no details about the event. I proceeded to clear at that age but could feel that she was holding onto something, so I asked her about it. She asked if I would like to know what happened and I replied that she could reveal according to her level of comfort. She then told me that her father had committed suicide when she was eleven years old.
This created a paradigm shift in my approach to our session as I could bring in new awareness. We worked through feelings, and we released conflicting emotion. She finally shared what she had been wondering about since childhood. She talked about her father in a loving fashion and spoke about the confusing situations around his passing. At one point in her sharing, she paused, and in this pause of silence she said to me – ‘He was a great father”. My heart broke for her because she had wondered for years why this happened and if he loved her. As a child, she had heard whispers about him and knew that two people had died in an accident, a mom, and her baby. She was told that he was involved in the accident. As we cleared around this, and the guilt by association was lifting, her father came through. I received him and the two of them were able to have that long-awaited, all-important conversation.
Apparently, her father had struggled with depression and tried to assuage his feelings with alcohol at times. Despite his problems, her memories of him were of a loving dad who spent time with her and often expressed his affection. He came through with strong emotion and as happens in readings, I felt his emotions and was able to convey his tremendous love to her. The Masters (librarians of the Records) would not release details about the accident because the real reason for his suicide was his feeling of inadequacy around his family. Although the accident was unavoidable, he knew he would be facing the pressures of others’ assumptions. His major focus was for family, and he could not face knowing how his family would suffer because of him. He thought his decision would benefit the family in the long run.
As we worked with her child, I saw a very confused little girl who had just lost her best friend and loving father. Her child was also aware of the adults’ whispers around this. Apparently, no one knew how to have a comforting conversation that could be completely understood by her. All she felt was alone, abandoned.
Having had the opportunity to speak about what happened, she now knew that his intentions had always focused on family, even though the rest of the world was not so sure. The conversation between the two of them was beautiful and critical for her healing. She had been carrying questions and uncertainty since that tender age of eleven. She asked if he often played with her grandson whom she had watched interact with another pretend companion at play and yes indeed, her father was often by his side. At this point in her life, she could begin to appropriately grieve the loss of her father, knowing that his feelings for her never wavered and that their relationship was intact. And she would now be able to communicate with him at will.
In every session that I have, there are lessons forthcoming for me as well as for the participant. In this poignant story, I kept going back to that scared, puzzled, and questioning little girl who had no real answers but had many, many questions. She was exposed to whispers of disregard about her father whom she dearly loved. Where was the help for this child? What do we do in our adult world to soothe such a huge impact? We must remember that children live in a different reality than we do. Their innocence evokes love and wonders with each interaction, each discovery. They have not yet accumulated bitterness or the need to judge. They only know pure love and hurt when it is lost.
I am thankful for this window into the powers of communication with loved ones who have departed. Sometimes it makes all the difference in the world. This Akashic session was won in a raffle which was Spirit directed no doubt!”
Available on Amazon. I hope you enjoy the book!
Table of contents
Chapter 1: Introduces energy-healing modalities and how mediumship and Akashic readings guide healing, beginning as a “navigating life” session that shifts to address a young-age parental suicide and inherited ideations.
Chapter 2: Explains how the process works, drawing on Edgar Cayce’s Akashic records, with a FAQ and stories section.
Chapter 3: Describes transforming healing through awareness of unconscious feelings, covering patterning, allowing, parallel lives, entanglement, symbolism, memory imprinting, brain hemispheres, cooperative metaphysical functions, and pattern recognition, as applied in the session.
Chapter 4: Introduces identifying hidden psyches’ agendas, defenses, beliefs, and behaviors from trauma and past lives, to understand current emotional states and patterns.
Chapter 5: Examines self-esteem and memory-imprisoned parts, contrasting attachment and authenticity per Dr. Gabor Mate, and presents self-esteem modules to address ingrained survival patterns.
Chapter 6: Explores psyche-derived insights from childhood trauma, lost parental figures, and spiritual guidance, supplemented by practical tools for resonance-building and mindful alignment.
Chapter 7: Describes building your signature vibration to attract abundance, including clearing unhealthy childhood patterns and experiencing heightened restorative energy.
Chapter 8: Emphasizes the power and necessity of Divine energy in healing, with tools and daily habits to deepen awareness and closeness to the Divine presence.
Chapter 9: Outlines technical clearing methods like the mirroring technique, addressing miasms and mind–soul connections, and removing external karmic energy.
Chapter 10: Covers respecting others’ energies with boundaries and a safe healing space, linking trust to energetic movement and addressing past feelings of being overlooked.
Chapter 11: Details communicating across beings and planes, channeling ETs and guides while identifying misaligned chakras and breaches from trauma exposure.
Chapter 12: Discusses AI’s potential impact on metaphysical inquiry, urging self-reflection and growth-focused perspective.
Chapter 13: Introduces conversations with other selves via Seth/Jane Roberts, accessing dream-sleep energies, and examining ancestral and witch-trial energies in past-lineages.
Chapter 14: Explores near-death experiences and the spiritual benefits of contact with beings from the other side.
Chapter 14a: Describes transitioning energy at the end of life, physiological changes before death, and how cultural norms shape death experiences.
Chapter 15: Discusses gifts from the Divine, mediumship and channeling, as innate, cultivated abilities that evolve with timing and collective growth.
Chapter 16: Explains receiving information from other realms, including soul origin energies and extraterrestrials.
Chapter 17: Addresses channeling and its effects on the psyche, including a Jesus-energy session offering insights into his life and love-based example.
Chapter 18: Focuses on recognizing and using one’s spiritual gifts through discovery, practice, and service to others.
Chapter 19: Guides spiritual survival amid negative influences, addressing childhood trauma and how to release its grip for growth.
Chapter 20: Highlights the veil’s thinning and humanity’s interconnectedness, urging responsible navigation of universal secrets within the ethereal plane.
Chapter 21: Celebrates gratitude for universal and spiritual knowledge and explains why gratitude is foundational.
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Sheila Jeanette Wood, Intuitive Healing Coach
Sheila J Wood, PhD, is a multifaceted author and Intuitive Healing Coach. Her work as an Energy Healer, Spiritual Medium, and Akashic Records Reader focuses on helping individuals reconcile emotional issues related to ancestral and past life experiences that may impact their current lives. While she can address a wide range of concerns, she has developed modules to target specific aspects of personal development, such as self-esteem and phobias. Through her intuitive gifts, Sheila helps to guide others in making empowered choices during their earthly journey. Her approach combines spiritual insight with practical healing methods, making her a valuable resource for those seeking deeper self-understanding.
