Trauma is often misunderstood by those who haven't survived it. Even the most well-meaning loved ones of trauma survivors can be insensitive to their needs. They want the best for the survivor, but ...

It’s easy to recognize that anxiety can be passed down to us from our parents, whose parents (my grandparents) were probably also somewhat anxious like their parents before them. But recently, ...

As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.

Intergenerational trauma occurs when multiple generations of a family feel the effects of past traumatic events. These effects can be emotional or physical. Traumatic events can influence a person’s ...