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

• Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research
• Treating Trauma Survivors With PTSD by Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D.
• Beauty Queen of Jerusalem by Sarit Yishai-Levi
• It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn