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We’re back with a powerful new season of Conversations with Coach LA, and we’re starting with a conversation that will move you!
This week’s guest, Contessa Brown, is a spoken word artist, motivational speaker, clinician, and life coach who has dedicated her life to helping others reclaim confidence, heal, and live authentically. As the CEO of Café S.O.U.L. and founder of Queen’s Closet, she’s a force in Rhode Island’s creative and wellness spaces, using art and advocacy to uplift communities.
Listen to The Weight We Carry: Breaking Generational Cycles as we explore the impact of generational wounds, the power of healing, and how we can break cycles to create a new legacy.
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Generational cycles refer to behaviors, beliefs, traumas, and coping mechanisms that are passed down within families, often unconsciously. These cycles can be both positive and negative. When we talk about "breaking generational cycles," we’re referring to the intentional effort to change harmful patterns—such as unhealthy relationships, financial instability, or emotional suppression—to create healthier outcomes for ourselves and future generations.
Unresolved Trauma: When trauma is not processed, it can manifest in future generations through emotional avoidance, hypervigilance, or toxic coping strategies.
Lack of Emotional Expression: Families that discourage discussing feelings often produce individuals who struggle with emotional regulation and communication.
Codependency & Enmeshment: Over-reliance on family members for identity or emotional stability can lead to difficulties in forming healthy, independent relationships.
Addiction & Substance Abuse: Patterns of substance dependence are often passed down due to environmental and genetic factors.
Financial Instability: Poor financial habits and beliefs about money—such as fear of wealth or scarcity mindsets—can perpetuate economic struggles across generations.
Trauma and Mental Health:
About 70% of U.S. adults have experienced at least one traumatic event in their lifetime. (National Council for Behavioral Health, 2020)
Individuals with unresolved trauma are 2-3 times more likely to develop anxiety, depression, or PTSD.
Generational Trauma:
Research shows that trauma can be biologically inherited through epigenetics, meaning stress responses can be passed down across generations. (Yehuda & Lehrner, 2018)
Children of Holocaust survivors and descendants of enslaved individuals have shown higher levels of stress-related disorders due to intergenerational trauma.
Dysfunctional Family Patterns:
Children who experience household dysfunction (e.g., abuse, neglect, or substance use) are at a higher risk of replicating those patterns in adulthood unless they actively work to break the cycle. (CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, 1998)
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle – Mark Wolynn
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma – Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing – Dr. Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey
All About Love: New Visions – bell hooks (on love as a tool for healing and transformation)
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents – Lindsay C. Gibson (on unlearning childhood conditioning)
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself – Nedra Glover Tawwab
Healing the Shame That Binds You – John Bradshaw (on overcoming toxic shame)
The Trauma Therapist Podcast – Exploring mental health and healing through expert conversations.
Therapy Chat Podcast – Discussions on trauma, boundaries, and emotional wellness.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Test – Free online resource to understand childhood trauma impact.
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (www.nctsn.org) – Resources for healing trauma.
Resiliency and Optimism Changes Lives LLC – Coaching and therapeutic services focused on empowerment, self-care, and breaking generational cycles. (Lakisha Renee Austin)
Therapy for Black Girls (www.therapyforblackgirls.com) – Culturally competent therapists and mental health resources.
The Loveland Foundation (www.thelovelandfoundation.org) – Therapy funding for BIPOC women and girls.
BetterHelp (www.betterhelp.com) – Online therapy platform for accessible mental health care.
PurePark (www.purepark.com) – A resource for finding wellness professionals, including therapists and coaches.
Psychology Today (www.psychologytoday.com) – A widely used directory for finding licensed therapists and mental health professionals.
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