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The Spirit of Abandonment: How We Inherited Pain That Wasn’t Ours

Have you ever felt alone even in a room full of people? Have you struggled to explain the ache inside you, the one you were born with? What if that emptiness isn’t just yours… but a wound passed down through generations?
This blog explores the spirit of abandonment and how many of us unconsciously carry the rejection, loss, and emotional detachment of our ancestors. It offers clarity, healing, and a pathway to release inherited soul trauma and reclaim sacred wholeness.

You came into this world craving connection
to be seen, to be held, to be wanted.
But somewhere in your journey, even before you could form words, you felt it:
the ache of absence.
Maybe someone left.
Maybe someone stayed, but was emotionally gone.
Maybe no one spoke it aloud, but the silence raised you.
And so you grew
with a hole where love should have lived,
with strength that came from survival,
with a soul shaped more by what wasn’t than what was.
But what if that pain didn’t begin with you?
What if you are carrying the grief of those who came before you?
The spirit of abandonment doesn’t start in the moment, it starts in the memory of blood.
Inheritance Is Not Just Blood, It’s Pain, Too
You inherit your mother’s eyes,
your father’s walk,
your grandmother’s voice…
But you also inherit:
- Your father’s emotional absence
- Your mother’s quiet grief
- Your grandfather’s silent rage
- Your ancestors’ survival instincts
This is called soul memory, a spiritual DNA that carries unprocessed pain down the bloodline.
So if you’ve always struggled with:
- Feeling unseen or unworthy
- Overgiving in relationships
- Deep fears of being left or forgotten
- A constant need to prove your value…
You may be carrying an ancient grief, a spirit of abandonment that is not yours, but lives in you.
Signs You’re Living with Inherited Abandonment
It doesn’t always show up as sadness. Sometimes it looks like:
- Hyper-independence: “I don’t need anyone.”
- Fear of asking for help: “If I lean, they’ll leave.”
- Attachment to emotionally unavailable people
- Chronic loneliness, even in relationships
- Resentment when others depend on you
Why?
Because abandonment teaches you that presence is temporary.
That closeness is dangerous.
That being vulnerable means being left.
But none of this is truth.
It’s trauma, passed down, never questioned, quietly lived out.
Where It Begins: The Forgotten History of Our Families
Your ancestors knew abandonment.
They were stolen from their lands, separated from their families, sold into silence, told to “be strong” and “keep moving.”

So they buried their emotions.
They armored their hearts.
They taught strength, but forgot softness.
They taught survival, but forgot connection.
No one told them how to grieve.
No one taught them how to heal.
So they passed it down.
Not because they didn’t love you
but because they didn’t know another way.
You are now standing at the threshold of a choice:
To keep surviving…
or to heal what they could not.
Releasing What Was Never Yours to Carry
You do not have to hold what harmed them.
You do not have to wear the pain that shaped them.
To begin healing:
- Name the wound. Say it: “I carry abandonment that did not begin with me.”
- Feel what they could not. Cry the tears they were never allowed to.
- Honor their pain without living in it. Let your healing be your tribute.
- Create new soul agreements. Choose connection. Choose presence. Choose now.
- Speak to your inner child: “You were never meant to be left. You are here. You are loved.”
You are not here to repeat the pattern.
You are here to redeem the bloodline.
The loneliness you feel is not a flaw, it is a signal.
A cry from generations past, waiting for someone to say,
“This ends with me.”
You are that someone.
You are the bridge between the wound and the healing.
You are the voice that breaks the silence.
You are the presence that restores what was lost.
The spirit of abandonment may have walked with you for years.
But today, it must bow.
Because you remember.
And when remembrance comes, healing begins.
🕊 If this message touched your soul, share it with someone who needs to remember they’re not alone in their pain.
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You were never truly abandoned.
You were always being prepared… to heal what others never could.