What is “Exploring Your Roots” all about? It’s a collection of articles and ideas that digs deeper than just identifying the ancestors in your family tree. By delving into the roots of our family history, we can learn a lot about ourselves and how the lives of our ancestors are intertwined with our lives today. Subject matter includes genealogy research, ancestry stories, the art of family trees, common family symbols and traditions, epigenetics, and the humorous side of heredity.
About Karen
As a lifelong seeker obsessed with the ways personal narrative shapes the lives we live, Karen has always had a keen interest in helping others review and reframe the stories that limit their lives. She has written on multiple self-improvement topics over the years, but her own family history research journey has stirred a passion for exploring the impacts of ancestry stories and family patterns on self-awareness and personal growth. She created Exploring Your Roots to provide a collection of articles and resources that goes beyond the nuts and bolts of genealogy into the psychology and personal growth potential of knowing and honoring our ancestry.
Her articles and photographs have appeared in regional and national magazines such as Spirituality and Health and The Herb Quarterly. Her memoir, What My Heart Saw: Untangling Memory and How the Brain Heals merges her personal story of recovery from developmental trauma with current trends in neuroscience and self-help techniques.