Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

What's the difference between the traumas that happened to us and the generational trauma that

happened to our ancestors?

So the major difference is placed in biology. So there's a genetic component to

intergenerational trauma. And so intergenerational trauma has this way in which there is a genetic

transmission that happens from parent to child. And so it creates a predisposition to vulnerability to stress.

Give me an example.

What's a common example you see in your practice that is a generational story?

Well, I mean, you know, there are people that will come in and say, you know,

ever since I was a child that was, like, difficult to soothe.

And I was, you know, I had like was a child that was like difficult to soothe and I was, you know,

I had like this hyperactivity.

There's a lot of trauma survivors that also like believe that their symptoms are coincide with ADHD

because there's a lot of overlap in the experience in the in the symptomatology.

So there's a there's a lot of that. There's like people that,

you know, reflect back to their childhood and they say, like, I've always had like this experience

that felt like I was always anxious. When we dig into the layers and we dig deep, we start

noticing, okay, especially because I do a lot of like family tree work and like really going down

the lineage to know like, well, what are some of the trauma responses or what are some of the

responses around also like inflammatory responses like depression or anxiety or other kind

of like mental illness, you know, kind of experiences that were held in the family. And when we start going down the family line and we start exploring not only their

childhood and how they responded in their childhood, what their attachment patterns were

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