12 - Breaking the Chains of Generational Trauma

Adult Child

Andrea

Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Mental Health

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, we are diving deep into the generational nature of family dysfunction, epigenetics, and how our DNA may be carrying the symptoms of trauma from past generations. Andrea is joined by Naome Bradshaw - singer, blog writer, adult child, and expert "historian" - who shares about the generational trauma of her own lineage over the span of 250 years!
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Resources -
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory by Elizabeth Rosner
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0:00.0	Breaking the chains of generational trauma. My name is Andrea and this is adult child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.
0:14.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:15.0	What you holding on to?
0:19.0	What you're holding on to,
0:20.0	but just let it all go.
0:22.0	What's making you slow now?
0:25.0	Let it all go.
0:27.0	What's you got to do, yeah.
0:29.0	Welcome back to an old child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.
0:36.0	And today, we are diving deep, or rather, diving deeper into the generational nature of family dysfunction.
0:47.0	We have talked about this all throughout the pod and it is such an important concept to the adult child topic at large.
0:57.0	How the disease of family dysfunction does not just pop out of nowhere, how this shit gets passed from generation to generation,
1:08.7	how our parents aren't evil, but just a product of their own dysfunctional upbringing and how we will pass
1:17.5	our shit on to the next generation if we don't heal our shit.
1:23.0	So today I want to go a little bit deeper and talk about epigenetics.
1:28.0	I am hoping that your eyes did not just roll over,
1:32.0	but epigenetics has been a buzzword as of late and it is
1:36.2	the study of how your behavior and environment can cause external modifications to your genetics. Now these
1:46.1	modifications do not actually change our genetics but they change how our
1:51.5	cells read our genetics. They change how our cells read our genetics
1:53.9	they change how we express our genetics
1:57.4	now what the hell does that mean no fucking clue
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