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How Historical Trauma Lives in the Body Across Generations

My family survived genocide and I carry survivor guilt about having an easier life but also trauma responses to things I never directly experienced.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Collective trauma can be transmitted through both conscious storytelling and unconscious somatic patterns that affect descendants who never experienced the original events.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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