Transforming Trauma: Healing for Generations to Come
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Every single day presents us with an opportunity to break a cycle. All you have to do is take it. Every single day instead of rolling down your window and screaming out at the person in the other car, there's a choice that can be made. Every day in your relationship you have a choice to continue that same cycle and pattern and yell back, or integrate a different version of how you can engage in the relationship. Every day there is an opportunity in all areas of life." [56:52]
2. "If we are not careful, history can repeat itself. So let's be mindful of that and cut the cord where we can. It is important for us to be in healthy relationships with other humans." [01:15:54]
3. "We should be thinking about our habits and our behaviors to support us having the most harmony and peace possible. When we are in a relaxed state, we can see wider, we can see things clearer, we can make better decisions, we feel better, more calm, we feel more abundant from a peaceful harmonious state." [52:09]
4. "You have 1,440 minutes in the day. If you take five of those minutes and do a breath work practice, you're already ahead of the game. And if you do that for an entire year, 365 days, what we know what Neuroscience is telling us is that it takes an approximate 3 to 400 repetitions of a nervous system restoration practice for our body memory to start shifting." [19:14]
5. "Show up as your more healed self. Let people see how you walk and move as a more healed version of yourself. Model for them whether it's your kids, it's your parents, it's your partner, it's friends, right? Let them see how you're modeling how you show up differently and how you no longer feed the cycles but you break them." [28:07]
### Quotes for Members
1. "If you didn't know that what you were struggling with was intergenerational trauma because you were exhibiting toxic relationship behaviors that were reflected in your childhood home and you absorbed those as the norm, then you wouldn't know to actually disrupt those and not pass those on or not exhibit those in your home. However, it's important that if you now do know better that you take action, that you decide, 'Okay, I know that there's a different way and I understand that the way that I've been behaving is unhealthy. Let me shift.' That is already a step in the right direction." [22:53]
2. "The more that we engage in the practice of meditation, the more of the neural networks inside of our brain and nervous system that are actually going to start forming around that calm and peace. And the more that our brain, which is neuroplastic, is going to start forming actual brain matter that is organized around peace. So we're going to get reinforcement. It's not going to look the same, it's not going to be that reward that's going to come right away and that we're going to feel like, 'Oh my goodness, it's all lifted,' but we are going to feel better eventually if we continue that process." [55:09]
3. "If you take those 365 days, that year of those 5 minutes, you're already doing work that is going to be monumentally effective in you feeling more settled and like your nervous system is actually experiencing a lot of ease and calm that it wasn't experiencing before you did the year. And how much is our partners in an intimate relationship picking up on our nervous system wounds and also our kids picking up just by watching and observing us and being around us? It's almost instantaneous and especially the people that are closest to us, but especially children because children are very, very keen on picking up on non-verbal cues." [19:49]
4. "If we don't learn to heal our inner child as adults, what will happen to us? Well, we can actually develop the same type of inner child wound in our children. So they don't have to experience the wound, we're just passing it on. That comes up, of course, when we're talking about intergenerational trauma having some biological connections. So there's already a family that perhaps is already from a nervous system perspective, from perhaps an epigenetic perspective, already having tenderness and vulnerabilities that are emotional." [37:31]
5. "If someone's in a marriage and they realize they want to break the cycle and they're willing to do the work themselves but maybe their partner isn't as open yet, and they're realizing like, 'Oh, this person, you know, I want to do this work, I'm healing but this person's still in a nervous system reactive state and unwilling to break their own cycle,' what can they do if they're the only one trying to grow and their partner is not? That's a really tough situation and we have to empathize with anyone that is in any kind of environment, particularly a home environment, in which they have to go back to the source of their pain or back to a place where their safety is compromised in any way." [27:27]
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1. "Every single day presents us with an opportunity to break a cycle. All you have to do is take it. Every single day instead of rolling down your window and screaming out at the person in the other car, there's a choice that can be made. Every day in your relationship you have a choice to continue that same cycle and pattern and yell back, or integrate a different version of how you can engage in the relationship. Every day there is an opportunity in all areas of life." [56:52]
2. "If we are not careful, history can repeat itself. So let's be mindful of that and cut the cord where we can. It is important for us to be in healthy relationships with other humans." [01:15:54]
3. "We should be thinking about our habits and our behaviors to support us having the most harmony and peace possible. When we are in a relaxed state, we can see wider, we can see things clearer, we can make better decisions, we feel better, more calm, we feel more abundant from a peaceful harmonious state." [52:09]
4. "You have 1,440 minutes in the day. If you take five of those minutes and do a breath work practice, you're already ahead of the game. And if you do that for an entire year, 365 days, what we know what Neuroscience is telling us is that it takes an approximate 3 to 400 repetitions of a nervous system restoration practice for our body memory to start shifting." [19:14]
5. "Show up as your more healed self. Let people see how you walk and move as a more healed version of yourself. Model for them whether it's your kids, it's your parents, it's your partner, it's friends, right? Let them see how you're modeling how you show up differently and how you no longer feed the cycles but you break them." [28:07]
### Quotes for Members
1. "If you didn't know that what you were struggling with was intergenerational trauma because you were exhibiting toxic relationship behaviors that were reflected in your childhood home and you absorbed those as the norm, then you wouldn't know to actually disrupt those and not pass those on or not exhibit those in your home. However, it's important that if you now do know better that you take action, that you decide, 'Okay, I know that there's a different way and I understand that the way that I've been behaving is unhealthy. Let me shift.' That is already a step in the right direction." [22:53]
2. "The more that we engage in the practice of meditation, the more of the neural networks inside of our brain and nervous system that are actually going to start forming around that calm and peace. And the more that our brain, which is neuroplastic, is going to start forming actual brain matter that is organized around peace. So we're going to get reinforcement. It's not going to look the same, it's not going to be that reward that's going to come right away and that we're going to feel like, 'Oh my goodness, it's all lifted,' but we are going to feel better eventually if we continue that process." [55:09]
3. "If you take those 365 days, that year of those 5 minutes, you're already doing work that is going to be monumentally effective in you feeling more settled and like your nervous system is actually experiencing a lot of ease and calm that it wasn't experiencing before you did the year. And how much is our partners in an intimate relationship picking up on our nervous system wounds and also our kids picking up just by watching and observing us and being around us? It's almost instantaneous and especially the people that are closest to us, but especially children because children are very, very keen on picking up on non-verbal cues." [19:49]
4. "If we don't learn to heal our inner child as adults, what will happen to us? Well, we can actually develop the same type of inner child wound in our children. So they don't have to experience the wound, we're just passing it on. That comes up, of course, when we're talking about intergenerational trauma having some biological connections. So there's already a family that perhaps is already from a nervous system perspective, from perhaps an epigenetic perspective, already having tenderness and vulnerabilities that are emotional." [37:31]
5. "If someone's in a marriage and they realize they want to break the cycle and they're willing to do the work themselves but maybe their partner isn't as open yet, and they're realizing like, 'Oh, this person, you know, I want to do this work, I'm healing but this person's still in a nervous system reactive state and unwilling to break their own cycle,' what can they do if they're the only one trying to grow and their partner is not? That's a really tough situation and we have to empathize with anyone that is in any kind of environment, particularly a home environment, in which they have to go back to the source of their pain or back to a place where their safety is compromised in any way." [27:27]
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