If you have ancestors or older relatives who went through a very distressing or oppressive event, their emotional and behavioral reactions could ripple through the generations of your family and ...

A psychiatrist shares her experience working with Native communities and how understanding historical trauma can begin the ...

Generational trauma occurs when parents unintentionally pass their trauma down to their kids. Generational trauma can affect multiple generations over the course of hundreds of years. Learning to ...

Intergenerational trauma describes the theory that trauma can be passed to future generations through changes in DNA. Intergenerational trauma is thought to be passed down through epigenetic changes, ...

Trauma is an experience so harrowing that it can alter our gene expression — and in some cases, these changes can be passed down to future generations. But if the traumas experienced by our parents, ...

Co-authored by Priscilla Li, BA and Eunice Y. Yuen, MD, PhD In this contentious election year, immigration is the most concerning issue, according to Gallup 2024 monthly surveys. The number of asylum ...

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Woven throughout most of this newsletter is the understanding that our past informs our present. It shows up in the choices we make, our relationships, our work. No corner of our lives goes untouched ...

Intergenerational trauma is where the psychological effects of painful events are passed on in families. A psychotherapist shared five signs you might be experiencing intergenerational trauma.