If you like me have watched Dr. Mariel Bucke's Instagram videos about family or trauma or cycle breaking,

and wished you could capture all of her knowledge and counsel in a single place

you are in luck. Her new book, Break the Cycle, A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma,

is deeply grounded in her work. Dr. Bucke is, of course, a Columbia University trained

and trauma-informed psychologists and in her own lived experience. In Break the Cycle, she's giving language to some terms you may have heard a lot intergenerational

trauma, trauma responses, and some you've heard about a lot less, an intergenerational higher

self and a generational legacy, all of it, to set the stakes for why cycle breaking matters,

not just for each of us as individuals, but as siblings,

as parents, as role models, as legacy builders.

Hello, my friend.

Hi.

You did it.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

So good to be here in this author world.

It's so good to have your book in this world to break the cycle.

I'm so excited. I ordinarily don't start these conversations this way, but in this case, I think it's just really important

that we set some terms and that we make sure that we're all talking and thinking about this

the same way, especially since the words intergenerational trauma are actually in the

title of your book. It's a word that gets used a lot. It's a big Instagram term of the moment.

Define for me what you mean when you talk about intergenerational trauma, how it shows up.

Intergenerational trauma is the only trauma that is handed down our family line.

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