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Trauma & Narcissism Redefined

Generational Trauma & Narcissistic Abuse

Trauma & Narcissism Redefined

Caroline Strawson

Narcissisticabuse, Health & Fitness, Narcissist, Self-improvement, Education, Recovery, Mental Health, Trauma

4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Today I’m going to explore the concept of generational trauma and how it can affect your response to traumatic events. I’ll explain the difference between intergenerational trauma and transgenerational trauma, and how the former refers to the projection of trauma from past generations onto the present, while the latter is the literal passing down of trauma at a cellular level. I also discuss my work with Somatic Experiencing and Internal Family Systems and how these tools can look at the experience of the body whilst we are going through life, and allow us to redefine our experience of what has happened in our life, as we can never change what has happened to us in the past, but what we can do is change our experience of it. 

What you will learn in this episode:

  • How generational trauma impacts us in the present
  • Why healing yourself will help the next generation
  • What we can learn from Somatic Experiencing and Internal Family Systems
  • Methods to approaching your trauma and redefining it

Generational trauma has a huge impact on your body's response to current trauma and so I’ll explain the different trauma responses that you may experience, such as fight, flight, freeze, and fawn, and how each one of these responses may come up depending on how generational trauma has impacted you. It’s so important to recognize the body's natural response to danger and trauma and how it can affect your ability to cope with abusive relationships, so I hope this episode helps you in your current situation and also helps you prepare for how you can handle trauma in the future. 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the narcissistic abuse and trauma recovery podcast. I'm Caroline

0:08.2

Strawson and I'll be sharing with you awareness, understanding and education about the devastating

0:15.6

effects of narcissistic abuse. I've been exactly where you are right now. And this podcast is a beacon of hope

0:23.1

for you to know that you are believed, you are seen, you are heard and you are not alone. And my hope

0:30.9

for listening to the podcast is it will help you move from post-traumatic stress to post-traumatic growth after the trauma of narcissistic abuse

0:40.1

because it is possible. You are enough and you deserve to thrive. Okay, my friends and a massive

0:50.2

welcome to the narcissistic abuse and trauma recovery podcast. As always, it's my pleasure

0:55.4

to have you here, albeit through these circumstances where, you know, you're here because,

1:01.4

like myself, you had found yourself in a narcissistic relationship. And, you know, there are many

1:07.5

people around there talking about narcissism from what I hope is a trauma-informed

1:12.6

lens with compassion, with knowledge, and also giving you hope that there is a light at the end of

1:18.3

this long dark tunnel that I know it can feel like sometimes, but there absolutely is.

1:24.6

And it's a really, really interesting podcast today.

1:27.1

I don't know whether you listen to

1:28.1

the one that I did last week, which was about being an empath and a codependent, and talking about my

1:32.9

mom and my dad and feeling like I was carrying the pain from my mom and the fear of from my father

1:38.7

of obviously him being in a care home right now. And, you know, I'm blown away by how many of you have emailed me saying,

1:45.3

gosh, I could really relate to that. And that got me thinking then about our past generations,

1:51.6

hence why I thought I would do this podcast. And if you haven't listened to the other one,

1:55.3

please go and listen to it because I think it will help you make sense of sometimes what you are feeling from others

2:02.8

too. And, you know, many of you will have heard of things like generational trauma and it is a real

2:11.0

thing. So what is generational trauma? Well, we normally talk about two different types as such.

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