Have you contemplated intergenerational trauma?

I just finished “it didn’t start with you” and am awaiting “mother hunger” at my local library, both books about intergenerational trauma and early childhood trauma.

Any of you have contemplated intergenerational trauma in trips?

It was a very enlightening book and kind of horrifying too. I see patterns that make some not so pleasant things make sense. It’s just… we suffer from our granmother’s gender-based oppression (among so many other things). I kinda new this before reading the book since I have always felt like I inherited issues and that the past of our family history and societal history live in us. It’s not like we are over it and can say “but that was the past”. Especially us women.

I’m sad I have to suffer my women ancestors’ reproductive trauma and attachment issues from being let down by men. I wish it wasn’t like this. I wish I could be born a clean slate. The intergenerational trauma has felt like a burden for so long but now I can at least understand it from an intellectual standpoint and see patterns and put it into words. And most importantly, break free.