Being able to say: I have good reasons to be scared of the dark, of raised voices, of being swallowed up by love, of being alone. “Trauma is the common experience of most humans on this planet… What we need is a culture where the common experience of trauma leads to a normalization of healing. *Normalizing trauma and community healing:Īdrienne maree brown encourages a normalization of trauma since it is an experience that almost all of us know directly or indirectly: Illnesses in mind, body, and heart can manifest as a result of all that we are carrying in the body that doesn’t get released. The histories of trauma that we are holding in our bodies can block us from pleasure, self-worth, wellness, and connection. It makes our already fragile interactions with each other that much more complex and volatile. It is all of that history, all of that unresolved and possibly unrecognized pain, shame and self-loathing, difficulty with connection, distrust, and/or hypervigilance from our lineage, which also joins us in our moments together. We don’t acknowledge that often when we are meeting, it isn’t just us who are in the space together. In Pleasure activism, adrienne maree brown writes that we are “descended from legacies of trauma and triumph” and “it is still a rare thing for most of us to sit with what we feel, how we feel, the reality that we carry memories and feelings from what our ancestors experienced, and that we carry out current continuous collective trauma together.” Joy DeGruy’s research on the intersection of racism, trauma, violence, and American chattel slavery:Ī talk based on the book It Didn’t Start With You, How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn: Impacts of intergenerational trauma by The Healing Foundation:ĭr. Acknowledgment of the trauma(s) and their impact as well as space for collective healing have to occur in order to break the cycle.įor more information about Intergenerational trauma, please see the videos below. They are transmitted in the generations that follow until they are addressed and processed. About Integenerational Trauma photo by impact of abuse, genocide, slavery, oppression, racism, colonialism, patriarchy, and trauma don’t only appear in the person or community who experiences or witnesses them. I notice myself inviting my ancestors in, knowing that they can be a source of support, knowing that they have loving wisdom to offer, and feeling significant solace in that and also acknowledging the conditioning and trauma passed through my ancestral lineage that I can offer up for healing right alongside my own wounds that need healing. I feel gratitude to be able to be with the multiplicities of experiences and medicines that are a part of my lineage. They feel collective and intergenerational and like they can offer wisdom about how to take care and how to be with what is if I can allow them to be present and listen. When these felt sensations arise, they don’t feel like they’re just my own. In these recent weeks, I’ve noticed an increasing sense of fear and collapse as well as resilience at times. I deeply appreciate the wisdom of these grandmother leaders. As the yang based habits and the decaying institutions on our planet begin to crumble, look up. They knew the power of the feminine principle… and because you carry their DNA in your body, this wisdom and this way of being is within you.Ĭall on it. Your ancestors from long ago knew how to do this. Your mother’s grandmother knew how to do this. Instead of traveling to a goal out there, you will voyage deeper into yourself. You will stop working so hard at getting from point A to point B the way you have in the past, but instead, you will spend more time experiencing yourself in the whole, and your place in it. You will find that you are working less in the yang modes that you are used to. You are at the beginning of something new. “As you move through these changing times… be easy on yourself and be easy on one another. Photo by from the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers:
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