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How Childhood Adversity Fuels Generational Trauma and Ways to Heal

You ever wonder why sometimes it feels like the struggles you’re facing aren’t just your own, but also some heavy stuff passed down from way before you were even born? Like your family has this invisible emotional baggage that just keeps getting handed off like a weird heirloom? That’s the thing with childhood adversity—it doesn’t just affect the child who lived it. It can ripple through generations, creating what experts call intergenerational trauma or ancestral trauma.

When we talk about childhood adversity, we’re looking at tough experiences during those early, formative years—things like…

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