Becoming a Cycle Breaker: Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Compassion and Resilience (Replay)
On Health
Aviva Romm
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Intergenerational trauma refers to the transmission of unresolved trauma and its psychological, emotional, or even physical effects from one generation to another. This phenomenon can manifest in various ways, impacting individuals' mental health, coping mechanisms, and relational patterns. The cycle of intergenerational trauma underscores the importance of acknowledging, understanding, and actively addressing inherited wounds to break free from its influence on future generations.
On today’s On Health episode, I’m joined by the incredible Mariel Buque, PhD, author of Break the Cycle: who wants us all to learn to unravel the threads of family trauma, and becoming cycle breakers so we can heal the burdens of suffering carried forward by so many families across generations.
In this powerful episode, we explore:
- What intergenerational trauma is and how it can affect our physiology, mental health, relationships, economics, and more.
- The profound connections between our individual experiences and the echoes of our ancestors' pain.
- Resilience and stress tolerance as essential tools for breaking the intergenerational trauma cycle.
- How to expand your window of resilience and respond to life's challenges with greater awareness and purpose."
- How compassion becomes a powerful ally, fostering understanding and acceptance of our shared human struggles."
- How mothers can be preemptive cycle breakers, initiating the healing journey even before conceiving.
- The landscape of family estrangement and tools for reconciliation before resorting to estrangement.
- Mariel's approach centers around the concept of an upward spiral, emphasizing small, consistent mindful actions for reshaping the nervous system.
Resources for those seeking guidance, including Mariel's book, "Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma."
Join us in this episode's transformative conversation on health, healing, and well-being, as we become architects of a future unburdened by the weight of generational pain.
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| 0:00.0 | From the stuff your mother never told you to the stuff your doctor never learned, |
| 0:09.0 | on health is what happens when a midwife plus a Yale trained MD shares about all things women's |
| 0:14.7 | health. From periods to menopause, sex to reproductive health politics, motherhood to mental |
| 0:20.2 | health, join me for taboo-busting conversations that demystify and destify. sex to reproductive health politics, motherhood to mental health. |
| 0:26.0 | Join me for taboo-busting conversations that demystify and destigmatize our bodies, |
| 0:29.6 | all while bridging the gap between conventional medicine and wellness. |
| 0:33.8 | Along the way, we'll be exploring the science and wisdom of how our bodies work, |
| 0:39.2 | what makes us well, what gets in the way, and how we can live our best lives on our terms. When it comes to women's health and well-being, there's nothing we won't talk about. |
| 0:44.1 | The new medicine for women is here. I'm Dr. Avivaram. Welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:06.5 | If you've been blessed with easy relationships with your family, your parents, particularly, and others in your family of origin, what an incredible gift. |
| 1:20.4 | But my 40 years of working in women's health, particularly around birth and hormonal changes and women's evolutions through their life cycles, have shown me that for most women, that's not the case. |
| 1:30.3 | And in fact, the holidays can be an incredibly stressful time as we process emotions from our childhoods as they come up, |
| 1:37.3 | creating new celebrations for our own children and families, or as we're faced with going home for the holidays and engaging with family members. For those of you who identify yourselves |
| 1:43.0 | as having trauma, particularly intergenerational trauma, and for those of you who identify yourselves as having trauma, particularly intergenerational trauma, |
| 1:46.9 | and for those of you who want to be a cycle breaker, a trauma cycle breaker, whether for yourself |
| 1:52.1 | or for yourself and your next generation, your family, your children, I invite you to |
| 1:58.8 | listen to this incredible episode with the phenomenal and beautiful Dr. |
| 2:03.2 | Mariel Bouquet, in which we talk about intergenerational trauma, how it impacts us where it comes |
| 2:09.9 | from, and what we can do to expand our window of resilience and respond to our own lives with greater grace and greater compassion, how we can |
| 2:22.1 | create new patterns for our children, and perhaps sometimes for some of us, hopefully many of us, |
| 2:28.1 | find healing with our families of origin. I wish you a healthy, nourishing, and beautiful holiday season as we enter it together. |
| 2:37.2 | And I invite you to pour yourself a cup of tea or enjoy whatever you're doing and have a listen to this interview that I'm bringing back, especially for the holiday season. |
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