Dr. Rachel Yehuda on How Trauma and Healing Cross Generations

Episode Highlights With Dr. Rachel YehudaWhat intergenerational trauma is and how it impacts our familiesEpigenetics - what this means and how it impacts our biologyHow more than just genes are transmitted to us from our parents and relativesWhat studies show about trauma being passed on and what happens in mouse modelsHow trauma can cause changes in genes that pass on to future generationsWhat she learned from studying children of holocaust survivors and the epigenetic changes they sawHow the science of epigenetics helps us understand enduring effectsWhy trauma is, in some ways, the ultimate learning experienceHow the body keeps the score and what the body might be trying to tell us in body symptoms that relate to trauma or stressWays to actually start to undo and heal the trauma, even generationalHow helping others can help heal past painThings we can say to our kids to help foster inner strength and healingWhy, as parents, we should encourage negative emotions in our kids rather than suppress themHer work related to psychedelics and trauma therapyResources We MentionCenter for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma ResearchTreating Trauma Survivors With PTSD by Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D.Beauty Queen of Jerusalem by Sarit Yishai-LeviIt Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn