Generational patterns

Making a choice to break generational trauma means being intentional about the harmful behaviors and communication patterns passed down through your generations. If your grandparents treated your parents poorly by saying hurtful things like “you are stupid,” and your parents continued this cycle by saying things like “you are not good enough,” make a choice to change the narrative. Start by using kind words with not only your children but with yourself.

⚓ Breaking generational curses involves acknowledging and changing harmful patterns passed down through families. Here are some steps to help you in this process: 1. 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐬: Recognize negative behaviours or beliefs repeated across generations. 2. 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟: Understand the root causes and impacts of these patterns. 3. 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩: Therapy or counselling can offer support and strategies. 4. 𝐒𝐞𝐭…

When I was first introduced to family therapy in graduate school, I immediately fell in love with the visual language of genograms. Since making this genogram

Emmylou Antonieth Seaman | Trauma Healing Specialist + Coach on Instagram: "When you heal yourself...⁣ ⁣ You can create new patterns of behavior that is conscious and promote healing and well-being, not just for ourselves but for future generations to come.⁣ ⁣ You heal the people around you, you heal your family, your children, their children, and their children’s children.⁣ ⁣ What you heal within yourself, you heal for your whole family line.⁣ ⁣ You heal generations and generations.⁣ ⁣ This…

“Cycle breaking means stopping harmful behaviors and conditioning and rejecting the once-accepted ways that were grandfathered in through repetition. Cycle breaking is lonely because most families don’t work on these generational patterns together, leaving the cycle-breaker to choose between their self-preservation and recovery or their family.” Free link in my stories 🤗 #family #generationalhealing #selflovejourney

Seeing Unhealthy Patterns In Your Family - https://themindsjournal.com/seeing-unhealthy-patterns-in-your-family/

When you don’t confront, admit, recover, and heal from difficult experiences in your life, you risk the danger of passing down unhealthy psychological and emotional patterns of trauma to the next generation in your family.

Let’s talk about breaking generational curses, dysfuntional family patterns and ancestral pathologies. This is a difficult conversation, because of our innate tribal loyalty to our families of origin. But if we want to thrive, this is exactly what we must do to grow.