How to survive intergenerational trauma Part 4

HOW TO OVERCOME INTERGENERATIONALTRAUMA Part 4

📍Reflection Activity

If you did the previous task, good for you.

Now, let’s analyze a few things.

📍How do you feel about writing these feelings? How is your body reacting to these feelings?

📍🤗My turn

Whenever I remember those words from her, my heart would race so fast, and I will begin to pull my hair, or squeeze my face.

📍The same way I used to feel as a child, is what I feel, whenever I remember those words, or I find myself in situations that trigger the same or similar experience(s).

📍🤗Your turn

You can write your response. You can also record your response, and write while you listen to yourself.

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📍📔post-journaling activity

Think about how those things that were said to you broke you.

How they have left you hurting.

Continue to think, and picture other events in your life right now, that take you back that memory lane, and cause you to feel the same/similar emotions?

📍📔Consider these questions.

These answers are for you to say out loud.

Is there a boss whose criticism feels like your caregiver's, but you work with?

📍Is there an intimate partner who sounds exactly like your parent or caregiver?

📍Is there a family member whose voice reminds you of the same hurtful memory from your childhood?

📍Is there a friend, who never stops lashing at you, and it feels like the voice of your caregiver again and again?

📍Do you see a familiar pattern? Do you see how you are passing down the same trauma you wished you never had to deal with to your child (ren)?

This is what intergenerational trauma looks like.

They are discrete;

they are unconscious;

they are repetitive!

📍Now, this is not the part where you feel bad for having other people in your life who treat you exactly how you were treated as a child.

No, this is the part where you take care of yourself.

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