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Therapy for Intergenerational Trauma
Wounds travel through families without an origin story. Which means you can spend years trying to heal something you can’t quite name, in a language that was never given to you.
Families transmit what they haven’t healed. Some of what you’re carrying never started with you — the anxiety you inherited, the roles you were assigned or conditioned into, the patterns you swore you’d never repeat and keep repeating anyway. Sometimes it runs deeper: the low-grade weight of expectations never spoken out loud, the cultural scripts that shaped what you were allowed to want.
The pain you’re carrying often isn’t just emotional — it’s built into how the family is organized, through enmeshment, parentification, or rigidity. You may have grown up without clear boundaries, as the child who became a confidant, or in a role so fixed that stepping out felt like betrayal.
Healing isn’t about blaming your family. It starts with seeing clearly how patterns moved through your system before they reached you — and deciding, with real agency, what you want to carry forward and what you’re done with.
Some of the burdens you carry were never yours to begin with.
Therapy is a place to decide what you hand forward and what stops with you.
If what you’re carrying comes less from your family specifically and more from the broader systems you’ve moved through — race, culture, religion, workplace, or other formal structures of power — the work looks a little different. Therapy for Cycle-Breakers and Liberators →
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