Intergenerational Trauma Is Running Your Life — Here's How to Finally Fire It

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Nov 24, 2025 · 48m

You did not choose the patterns you inherited. The anxiety, the emotional shutdown, the relationship dynamics that feel disturbingly familiar — none of that was your decision. But continuing it is. Willie Handler wrote Out From the Shadows because he had to face his own inherited wounds before he could write about anyone else's — and what came out of that process was not just a memoir but a clear-eyed map of how hidden family wounds travel through generations and what it actually takes to stop them on your watch. What he shares about what intergenerational trauma looks like in ordinary…