Opt Out of Generational Curses
Black Girl Burnout
Kelley Bonner
4.7 • 762 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Black Girl Burnout podcast, host Kelley Bonner explores the concept of 'generational curses' and offers a more precise term—'intergenerational trauma. She openly addresses the origins of this kind of trauma, especially how historical events like slavery have affected Black communities for generations. Kelley emphasizes the need to shift from breaking curses to healing trauma and sets the stage for a week-long series on how to heal these deep-rooted issues. More, more, and still more is within your reach in 2024. Tune in today and prepare yourself to engage in realistic strategies that can help you with opting into a life filled with abundance and joy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here. |
| 0:13.1 | And today I want to talk about how to opt out of generational curses. |
| 0:17.2 | This is a topic I've been meaning to cover for a while now because it's something I see a lot in pop culture. |
| 0:22.9 | Celebrities are saying, you know, we're out here breaking generational curses. |
| 0:26.6 | And I really wanted to unpack what that phrase means, what we're really talking about when we say a generational curse, and start to reshape the language around that phrase and move us toward what we're really talking |
| 0:39.4 | about, which is intergenerational transmission of trauma, which is something I've been passionate |
| 0:44.9 | about. It's something I studied in graduate school and was really interested in therapy |
| 0:48.8 | from the perspective of really how do we heal traumatic experiences that have happened maybe centuries ago, |
| 0:59.3 | but the remnants of it keeps showing up in our everyday lives. |
| 1:05.0 | So this week is going to be a three-part series again tackling this topic. |
| 1:09.9 | Today I want us to talk about what intergenerational |
| 1:13.1 | trauma is, why I prefer that phrase to talking about generational curses, and what we attach to, |
| 1:19.1 | what meaning we attach to language when we say things like a curse versus intergenerational trauma. |
| 1:25.7 | We don't have to break curses. We just need to heal trauma. And so I want |
| 1:31.2 | us to start the conversation about that. And then in the next episode, I want to talk about how do we do |
| 1:36.9 | that? How do you actually go about healing intergenerational trauma? How do you build boundaries and heal relationships with family members when we feel |
| 1:47.5 | like we're stuck repeating a pattern over and over again? And last but not least, I want to talk |
| 1:53.7 | about how to still have joy in your family life, how to opt into building a joyful legacy. |
| 2:00.5 | How do we reset, how do we reset |
| 2:03.1 | familial patterns so that they are joyful instead of traumatic or requiring lots of healing? |
| 2:09.7 | So that's the episodes for this week. And like I said, I want to start by talking about |
| 2:15.9 | what intergenerational trauma is and why I prefer that |
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