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How to process complex ancestral survival

My therapist says I have 'survivor's guilt' about slavery but my ancestors were enslaved not enslavers and I don't know what I'm supposed to feel guilty about surviving.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The weight of ancestral endurance can create confusing emotional landscapes in descendants.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.