When the seemingly impossible becomes reality
Have you ever looked at a situation in your life and longed for something, but thought that it was improbable, if not entirely impossible? This is certainly what things looked like for me with regards to learning about my mother’s bloodline. My mother was given up for adoption at birth and although she had tried over the years to trace her family, she had always met dead ends. All she knew about her blood family was her birth mother’s name on her adoption certificate - Joyce E. Townsley, formerly Jennings (whatever that meant) - and that supposedly her mother was a dancer, her father a Hungarian concert pianist and she had a sister 6 years older than her. At age 72, although my mother felt curious, she was content with the upbringing and life she has lead and wasn’t pinning her hopes - or her happiness - on tracing her blood family. Personally I had many unanswered questions, especially knowing how big a role ancestral healing plays in relation to my own soul path. Over the past few years I’ve been working at clearing my maternal ancestral line. This had brought me some clearance, but nonetheless I still felt a void and deeply desired to know more about the maternal ancestral line from which I’ve come. Had it not been for the world’s slowing down this past year, all the unanswered questions may well have remained unanswered. As it happens though, after much research on both my sister’s and my father’s parts - research which they did independent of one another - they both had a lead which reached the same conclusion about my mother’s family line, based on various pieces of information they had been able to access through their meticulous researching on the internet. And so it was that in mid-April my parents located a man in the USA via facebook who they believed to be my mother’s first cousin. It was a Monday morning when my mother sent him a message explaining her story. She wasn’t expecting a response for quite some time, if at all. But within a few hours she had a reply from him. Upon waking he had seen her message and he excitedly wrote back right away, telling her that although he didn’t previously have any knowledge of her existence, everything she said matched up - including the mystery of ‘Joyce E. Townsley, formerly Jennings’. Fast-foward to today, and in addition to my mother’s cousin and his family, my family’s size has somewhat increased with living relatives (as well as a whole host of fascinating ancestors who are long gone). It turns out that not only was it true about my mother having an older sister, but she also has a younger sister. Which means I now have two awesome aunties - April and Tina - who both live in Canada, as do the rest of their families. And boy do my aunties have some incredible - and often hilarious - stories to tell. The family resemblance, particularly between my mother and my older auntie, April, is uncanny. My grandmother Joyce - or Joy as she was known - passed away about 3 decades ago, but from all we have learnt so far she was certainly quite a character and lived a fascinating life. My grandfather’s identity, along with the reason my mother was put up for adoption, remains a mystery and may always remain so. Although given how this story is unfolding, nothing would surprise me now! So many times these past weeks I’ve looked at all of this happening around me. It’s the kind of stuff that’s so obscure and unlikely that it seems like I’ve been transported into an incredible book I just can’t put down. Then I remember that this story is my real life! There have been so many incredible synchronicities in this story so far, and so many fascinating things I’m learning about my family which help me to understand parts of myself which before now I didn’t understand. And there is so, so much more to come… I'm sharing my story with you because I want to remind you that no matter how improbable something in your life looks, there is always the very real possibility of magic happening. . With all of me I know this to be true because this is what I am living. . Blessings, F xx
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"I had the most magical journey with Francesca, releasing so much from my mother's family line, to be able to reconnect to my voice and the Divine Feminine. I really enjoyed the loving and supportive space Francesca created for me to be able to connect to my soul and get very important insights. The process felt really safe, and everything went really smoothly, in spite of the level of intensity of emotions coming up to the surface." - Sylvie, Switzerland .
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