01/23/2026
Year 7 downloading!!! Today marks the completion of my sixth year in business🥳🎉I look forward with great expectation to the seventh year—a year of completion and rest. As I do every year, I post my very first post from 2019 in commemorative style. It so captures what I do even years later. Thank you to everyone who supported me over the years🙏🏽I am so very grateful.
May your year be filled with bountiful blessings and rest✨️☺️
Original post from 2019:
A dear doula friend of mine sent me this amazing illustration posted by Rachelle Garcia Seliga from that vividly portrays how exploring a minimum of three generations of family history is imperative in understanding how patterns of trauma and suffering can repeat in each generation.
Seliga points out how depression and nutritional deficiencies are intergenerational and that whatever our mothers lacked and/or dealt with, we most likely had passed on to us as well.
Mark Wolynn, author of It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle, summed it up precisely: "The history you share with your family begins before you are even conceived. In your earliest biological form, as an unfertilized egg, you already share a cellular environment with your mother and grandmother. When your grandmother was five months pregnant with your mother, the precursor cell of the egg you developed from was already present in your mother's ovaries." pg. 25
Essentially three generations share the same biological background--which can be physical and/or emotional. Likewise, Wolynn points out that the precursor cells of the s***m you developed from were present in your father when he was a baby in his mother's womb.
To sum it up, Seliga poignantly poses the question: how many generations of women/mothers dealt with nutritional deficiencies or depression and post-partum depression? Or you fill in the blank of whatever runs in your family--stress, anxiety, fatigue, etc. Not to forget what the men and fathers in our family lines endured as well. To understand ourselves, we must also understand what the generations before us went through.
