Healing Trauma 10: Intergenerational Trauma

Children need a safe, consistent, well-regulated environment in which to grow optimally. When that doesn't happen for whatever reason, children experience developmental trauma. The neural networks for connection develop instead for protection.

Adverse Childhood Experiences cause many problems in adult life, including illness, addiction, financial pressure, and violence. To feel safe, children need to coregulate with stable parents, and this is difficult when there is unhealed trauma.

Knowing this, we can stop shaming ourselves for the intergenerational trauma, and cultivate compassion and kindness for ourselves, parents and children.

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This lecture was so clear and so informative and concise too. Good work!

So helpful in understanding generational trauma. Thank you.

My father was diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was 10 years old. Your talks and meditations have helped immensely in my journey to overcome childhood trauma residuals, which brought about my GAD. Thank you so much. Peter 🙏🙂