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How Family Secrets Shape Emotional Rules

I discovered my grandmother's suicide was covered up as an accident and now I understand why my family is so terrified of sadness in any form.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Traumatic family secrets often create unspoken rules about which emotions are safe to feel or express.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Generational trauma — identifying and interrupting?”

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