04/19/2026
Sometimes what you're carrying didn't start with you.
The anxiety. The people-pleasing. The constant feeling that you have to earn your place in the room.
These aren't personality flaws, they're often patterns passed down quietly through generations. Not because anyone intended harm, but because the pain never had a chance to be processed.
Somewhere along the line, it became yours to carry.
Intergenerational trauma works like this: what goes unresolved in one generation gets absorbed by the next: in the body, in relationships, in the stories we tell ourselves about who we are.
But awareness is where it shifts. You can be the person in your family who says, "I understand where this came from and I'm choosing something different."
That's not betrayal. That's healing.
💬 What's one belief or behaviour you've inherited that you're starting to see differently?