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Dissociation in your Family Tree
Chronic dissociation develops when there is repeated threat or trauma, especially when it starts at a young age and the child isn’t supported and soothed. In an ideal environment, parents buffer children from stress and help them regulate their behaviour, emotions and bodily functioning. If a parent did not have this experience, or is unable…
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Epigenetics, Physiological & Psychological Inheritance and the Family Historian
Physiological and psychological trauma can affect not only the person involved but succeeding generations. Therefore, ancestral trauma can influence and shape a descendant who has no knowledge of it. This has implications for family historians wanting a deep understanding of their forebears. It can also be critical to living relatives struggling with mental health issues.
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Attachment, Trauma & the Impact on Future Generations
Research has indicated that psychological trauma such as childhood abuse might impact the long-term physical health of not only the immediate victim, but also their offspring, by etching itself onto the victim’s DNA
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Teasing Out Psychological Inheritance-for family historians
Tragically, in any family, there will be those who suffered abuse, physical or mental ill-health, disability, starvation, imprisonment, bigamy, persecution, trauma and abandonment. All of these factors can trickle down the family tree, impacting future generations.
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Breaking Free of Psychological Inheritance
Can You Break Psychological Inheritance? Yes—psychological inheritance can be broken through awareness, intentional choices, and healing work. KEY TAKEAWAYS Psychological inheritance includes traits, reactions, and behavioral patterns passed through generations via genes, epigenetics, and learned behaviors You can break the cycle – psychological inheritance doesn’t define your destiny. Research shows patterns are changeable through awareness…
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Family History Is Critical To Living Relatives; Future Generations
Even before our birth we are influenced by the mental, emotional and behavioural patterns of our parents, the family around us and those who came before – even if our parents are not the ones who raised us. This phenomenon is known as psychological inheritance.
