Break the Cycle: What is Intergenerational Trauma?

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Trauma and its symptoms, reactions, and patterns that are passed from previous generations is called intergenerational or multigenerational trauma. The effects on your life can be hard to recognize, let alone challenge. They might even feel too big to confront. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Keep reading to better understand intergenerational trauma, why some things feel so ingrained, and how they can be shifted over time.