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When ancestral stories manifest as both healing and haunting

My nightmares are full of stories my grandmother told me and I cannot tell if they are trauma or medicine.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cultural memory transmitted through narrative can simultaneously wound and restore depending on one's capacity to metabolize inherited experience.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Cultural idioms of distress?”

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