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When ancestral trauma lives in family silence

My grandmother never talked about what happened to her family in Armenia and now that she's gone I feel like I'm carrying this heavy silence that doesn't belong to me but also does.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Inherited grief becomes a burden when historical trauma remains unspoken across generations.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Historical grief — intergenerational mourning?”

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