Don't let trauma define your inheritance. #healing #trauma

Is it true that trauma gets passed down through the generations? And I believe there have been studies done on what's called epigenetics, which means that surprisingly, somebody can have an experience and their child did not have that same experience, and yet the child will have some of the effects as if they had the experience because the parent had the experience. What's even more remarkable is that it's been observed not only in children, but in grandchildren and perhaps even great-grandchildren. And this is all been studied. What I think is important to point out, however, is that every time people talk about epigenetics, they always talk about epigenetic trauma. Something disturbing happened to my great-grandfather, and now that became embedded in the pattern of the family, and we're still working through that trauma. And I'm not minimizing that or dismissing that, but I am saying that to be fair, we have to also acknowledge that incredible [snorts] strengths are also passed down through the same mechanism of epigenetics. Meaning to say that you come from a line of survivors. You come from a line of strong, resilient people. And what you've inherited is not just the frailty of people who suffered, but you inherited the strength of people who survived.