We don't grow in the dark, growth happens in the light.

I'm challenging you to come out of hiding, to shed secrets, to step beyond shame.

I'm challenging you to stand in the light of truth.

Why go to therapy? Because it's defined work.

When you are emotionally healthy, you are more powerful spiritually.

You're now listening to the In the Light podcast hosted by Dr Anita Phillips.

Hey, hey, hey, this is Dr Anita and welcome to another episode of In the Light.

We have had so many new people join us lately. If you are new to the In the Light fan,

I want to say welcome and to those of you who've been riding for a while, welcome back.

This is a really special episode. I'm so excited about it.

We are talking about generational trauma.

I am a trauma therapist, so there's always a little something about trauma no matter what our conversation is.

But I have never done an entire episode dedicated to generational trauma.

But I have been invited to speak on generational trauma so much in recent weeks.

I decided to take the time to really dive in in a way that I hope will educate you,

encourage you, empower you to work through whatever way it has shown up in your life

because it's so critical to our wellbeing.

I've been a therapist for almost 20 years and when I first started in this work,

I was not familiar with the idea of generational trauma as a psychological and biological concept.

But I came in familiar with the idea of generational curses and breaking generational curses.

That was something that we were talking about in church a lot.

Christian books were being written about it.

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