Rachel Yehuda
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Western Science Meets Indigenous Wisdom
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Ancestral and Intergenerational Trauma
Category: Emotional Healing | Level: Jaguar (West) — Medicine Wheel
Grief and Loss Healing Protocol: The Wound That Opens the Heart
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross changed the Western world's relationship with death. Her 1969 book On Death and Dying introduced the five stages of grief -- denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance -- and gave millions of people a language for an experience that had been largely unspeakable in...
Trauma-Informed Care: Principles, Evidence, and Practice
Category: Emotional Healing | Level: Jaguar (West) — Medicine Wheel
Childhood Grief and Developmental Impact
When a child loses a parent, sibling, or other primary attachment figure, the impact reverberates across every dimension of development — cognitive, emotional, social, physiological, and spiritual. Children do not grieve less than adults; they grieve differently, filtered through developmental...
Epigenetic Inheritance and Ancestral Trauma: How Trauma Is Encoded in DNA Across Generations
In 2015, Rachel Yehuda and her colleagues at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai published a study in Biological Psychiatry that sent tremors through both the scientific and cultural worlds. They found that the adult children of Holocaust survivors — people born after the war, who had...
Family Systems and Intergenerational Patterns
Every person who walks into a therapist's office carries with them, invisibly, the accumulated emotional legacy of their entire family system — patterns of relating, coping, and surviving that were established generations before they were born. A man's difficulty with emotional intimacy may...
The ACE Study: How Childhood Adversity Programs Your Stress Operating System for Life
In 1995, two physicians — Vincent Felitti at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego and Robert Anda at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — launched a study that would produce one of the most important findings in the history of medicine. They surveyed over 17,000 predominantly white,...
Intergenerational Trauma: The Four Channels of Ancestral Wounding
In 2013, Brian Dias and Kerry Ressler at Emory University published a study in Nature Neuroscience that rattled the foundations of genetics. They trained male mice to associate the smell of acetophenone (a cherry blossom-like odor) with electric foot shocks.