What's up? Welcome to your self-helpless snack, where we give you a little taste of the

self-helpless podcast with a mini episode. If you want to dive deeper into this topic, you can find

the full episode linked in this episode's description. Let's just get into it. Just, you know,

just a nice little light topic of generational trauma. No big deal. So,, can you just share what is generational trauma and what is

the first thing that you have people do when you start unpacking this with something?

Yeah, absolutely. You know, I think this idea of generational trauma, like, it feels both very

close and very far from people.

And really what it is is difficult things that have happened within your family unit.

That's the simplest way that I can describe it.

And sometimes those difficult things are really like big capital T trauma things.

And sometimes are things as simple as moving, you know,

or an unhealthy relationship, an unhealthy marriage, which like if we look back a couple generations,

most people had unhealthy marriages that were not even and balanced. And so when we think about

generational trauma, we also have to think about things that are traumatic for one person or not traumatic

for everybody. And so trauma looks different for every single person. That also applies to generational

trauma. When I start working with my clients and unpacking things like generational trauma,

we start talking about the things that have been challenging for them presently in their life now.

And then we work backwards and just say,

okay, so are these other patterns in your family unit where this has happened? And oftentimes

the answer is yes. I look at my work as a clinician from a lot of different lenses. And so in my

own lived experience, like my parents are immigrants. There's trauma right there. Like they immigrated to the U.S. They didn't know the language. They came here and they built a whole

life here. And so I can't look at the context of my life without also acknowledging what they've

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