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Mailbag Installment XXXII: The One Who Broke the Pattern | Family Estrangement, Lineage, Epigenetics, Inherited Trauma, Murray Bowen, Monica McGoldrick, and Phylogenetic Inertia
In this Mailbag installment of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey responds to a listener named Rachel C., who has recently become completely separated from their family and is struggling to understand why.
Rachel asks a painful and deeply human question:
Why am I so different from my family that they want nothing to do with me?
After recent episodes on epigenetics, inheritance, lineage, and phylogenetic inertia, Rachel wonders whether their estrangement may have something to do with inherited patterns they cannot fully see. They have spent years trying to become the person they…
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