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When individual therapy cannot address generational trauma

My therapist keeps pushing Western trauma therapy but what happened to my family goes back generations to when they took our children away and I feel like she doesn't understand that this pain isn't just mine.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your suffering exists within a collective and historical context that individualistic healing approaches cannot encompass.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous healing traditions — Americas and Pacific?”

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