Healing Generational Trauma

The trauma your parents experienced well before birth could explain why you are easily anxious… A traumatic event is terrible at the moment, but as anyone who has experienced trauma knows, it does not stop there: the emotional and physical side effects last for weeks, months, and even years. This trauma can also take a toll on others, particularly your children, grandchildren, and other generations that follow. This is called generational, or inter-generational trauma.  For example, someone may have grown up in a household where there were generations of yelling and shouting  in anger, stemming from a place of unresolved trauma and pain. This may have been because yelling or shouting was adaptive behaviour for survival or they had their own parents yell at them because those parents and those before them did not have the tools, energy, modeling, support, or space to speak kindly or gently to their children due to constant stressors and the trauma of historical struggle or abuse. Those affected by intergenerational trauma might experience symptoms similar to that of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including hypervigilance, anxiety, and mood dysregulation. Inter-generational trauma is inherited across generations, and it can be fully healed by creating an environment where additional trauma does not occur for multiple generations. It can be healed even in the context of continuing stressors with the tools, inner resources, and support needed to care for symptoms and heal the root cause of the inter-generational trauma on physical/somatic, emotional, mental, cellular, and ancestral levels. If you experience generational trauma, trauma-informed coaching can help you understand the impact of the trauma, identify your symptoms, and equip you with tools to help change deeply embedded patterns, release the trauma and heal while stopping generations after you to experience inter-generational trauma.