97. How Family Secrets Shape Us: Emotional Inheritance with Dr. Galit Atlas

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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1. How we are each haunted by our family’s secrets and trauma–whether we know them or not–and how to break the cycle for future generations. 2. The astounding new research on generational trauma showing that our personal trauma is passed down genetically to our children and grandchildren. 3. Our unconscious need to heal what our parents could not–and how to mourn what we cannot control. 4. Why our bodies carry what our mind won’t remember–and how to release that burden. 5. Dr. Galit’s new book Emotional Inheritance and the incredible new way to understand ourselves. About Dr. Atlas: Dr. Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City. She is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Atlas has published three books for clinicians and numerous articles and book chapters. A leader in the field of relational psychoanalysis, Dr. Atlas is a recipient of the André François Award and the NADTA Research Award. She teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally. Her new book Emotional Inheritance was published in January 2022 and is being translated into 17 languages. IG: @galit_atlas To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. Thanks for coming back and spending
0:18.6	this time with us. We're grateful, as always. We are not only grateful this morning, but
0:23.8	we are just fascinated by the idea that we are discussing today. So many of us have this idea
0:33.0	that when we're born, we're just blank slates, and that who we become over time is just based
0:39.8	on what we experience in the world. But the brilliant guest we have today says, no, that's
0:46.2	not true. She says that who we become is based on not just what we experience, but what
0:50.7	our parents and ancestors experienced, whether we know what those experiences were or not, just
1:00.2	as if life wasn't hard enough. Now, just another freaking curveball. Okay. And so to unlock the
1:11.9	mysteries of who we are and what we want and why we do what we do, we can't just look inward
1:16.4	at ourselves or outward at our world. We have to also freaking look backward to the worlds and
1:24.5	trauma of our parents and grandparents. So no problem. We have an hour. So everyone will be
1:31.1	fine by the end. We will be fixed. Yes. We have a four step plan to carry yourself of the human
1:38.3	condition. Okay. The fascinating and brilliant Dr. Galete Atlas calls the trauma that has passed
1:43.7	down to us from previous familial generations are emotional inheritance. And today she is here
1:50.9	to help us understand it so that we can get closer to understanding not just our families, but
1:55.8	ourselves. Dr. Galete Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in
2:02.2	New York City. Her new book emotional inheritance was published in January and is already being translated
2:08.2	into 17 languages. She is on the faculty of the New York University postdoctoral program in psychotherapy
2:15.0	and psychoanalysis. A leader in the field of relational psychoanalysis, Dr. Atlas teaches and
2:21.2	lectures throughout the United States and internationally. Hi, doctor. Thank you for being here.
2:29.2	Do you feel like you can fix us all in the next 45 minutes? Is that too much to ask you?
2:34.3	Absolutely, I wouldn't. And I'm sorry that I gave you the bad news. It's more complicated than
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