How my daughter introduced me to my great great grandparents

"A long time ago, when I was a grown up..." was my daughter's famous conversation starter.

When she was 3 years old, she would often begin sentences this way and have all the adults around her in stitches!

I must admit, I too found it hilarious and insanely cute but a huge part of me wanted to correct her. (I later came to realise that this was due to me trying to protect her from public humiliation or not being taken seriously - which was my own childhood wounds that I was projecting on to her) but I had learned that in order to cultivate her intuition and help ensure that I don't create trauma that will lead to intuitive blockages, I had to support her imagination.

I remember reading years ago that to cultivate your children's gifts, you should encourage them to be imaginative and avoid ridiculing them for having a wild imagination or inaccurate memories, and since then I've been much more intentional about not telling my children "you're making that up, that didn't happen" or "stop lying that's not true" instead, I ask questions to help them explore it more and gently bring them back to ground in themselves into the present moment.

So this one particular day, as we were getting ready for preschool, she begins, "a long time ago when I was a grown-up, I used to look after GG (Her great grandmother), she told me specific details including the beautiful pink dress GG was wearing, the chair she was sat in and about the sweets she had given to GG so naturally, I begin asking her questions, I asked if she was the same age as she is now - to which she told me she was an adult, I asked how old GG was, she told me 7, I asked more questions, but the specificity in her answers intrigued me.

Later that day, I reached out to my grandmother, and asked her if she had any mother figures who passed when she was 7.. she said, "no, my grandmother passed when I was 6 & my grandfather shortly after aged 7" I couldn't believe my ears!!

I told her what my daughter had said and she was just as shocked as me and told me how her grandparents doted on her and treated her like a princess.. they brought her a dress which she loved (and you guessed it, it was pink)! They used to sneak her candy AND she often sat on her grandfather's lap in the SAME CHAIR my daughter described!

When she told me their names, I realised that my great great grandmother had appeared to me in a dream years before my daughter was born, and my daughter often said the name of my great great grandfather when naming her dolls and toys!

It became pretty clear to me that my great great grandparents were trying to reach out and wanted me to connect with them. I reached back out to my grandmother to find out even more about them so that I could find out what kind of offerings and personal items I should add to my altar.