Dr. Rachel Yehuda on How Trauma and Healing Cross Generations

Published: Oct. 24, 2022, 9 a.m.

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Rachel Yehuda

  • What intergenerational trauma is and how it impacts our families
  • Epigenetics - what this means and how it impacts our biology
  • How more than just genes are transmitted to us from our parents and relatives
  • What studies show about trauma being passed on and what happens in mouse models
  • How trauma can cause changes in genes that pass on to future generations
  • What she learned from studying children of holocaust survivors and the epigenetic changes they saw
  • How the science of epigenetics helps us understand enduring effects
  • Why trauma is, in some ways, the ultimate learning experience
  • How the body keeps the score and what the body might be trying to tell us in body symptoms that relate to trauma or stress
  • Ways to actually start to undo and heal the trauma, even generational
  • How helping others can help heal past pain
  • Things we can say to our kids to help foster inner strength and healing
  • Why, as parents, we should encourage negative emotions in our kids rather than suppress them
  • Her work related to psychedelics and trauma therapy

Resources We Mention

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