What the Body Holds: Generational Trauma, Lineage, and Healing Outside the Western Frame

The Feminist Bar Podcast · Sep 10, 2026 · 48m

Host Tinatswe Mhaka sits down with an anonymous guest to talk about how trauma actually moves through family lines, what the science of epigenetics can support and where it gets overclaimed, and how colonial violence and land dispossession still show up in nervous systems generations later. They spend time on where Western therapy falls short for Black and African women specifically, built on the assumption that healing is individual and language is the primary tool. The conversation opens into questions of identity and where you locate yourself in the world once you understand what you…