Episode Highlights With Dr. Rachel Yehuda
- What intergenerational trauma is and how it impacts our families
- Epigenetics - what this means and how it impacts our biology
- How more than just genes are transmitted to us from our parents and relatives
- What studies show about trauma being passed on and what happens in mouse models
- How trauma can cause changes in genes that pass on to future generations
- What she learned from studying children of holocaust survivors and the epigenetic changes they saw
- How the science of epigenetics helps us understand enduring effects
- Why trauma is, in some ways, the ultimate learning experience
- How the body keeps the score and what the body might be trying to tell us in body symptoms that relate to trauma or stress
- Ways to actually start to undo and heal the trauma, even generational
- How helping others can help heal past pain
- Things we can say to our kids to help foster inner strength and healing
- Why, as parents, we should encourage negative emotions in our kids rather than suppress them
- Her work related to psychedelics and trauma therapy
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