Understanding generational trauma from "summary" of Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Generational trauma is not just a thing that happened to us. It’s a thing that was happening before us, to us, and after us. It’s a thing that is always happening, and it always shapes us. It’s not just about what happened to our parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents, although those things matter. It’s about how those things impact us, how they get passed down and show up in our lives every day. We carry the weight of our ancestors’ pain in our bodies, in our minds, in our spirits. We inherit their trauma like a birthright, like a curse that we can’t shake. We try to outrun it, outsmart it, outgrow it, but it always finds a way to catch up to us. It seeps into our relationships, our choices, our thoughts. It colors the way we see the world, the way we see ourselves. Generational trauma is a cycle that we can’t seem to break. It’s a chain that binds us to a past that we can’t change, to a pain that we can’t erase. It’s a story that we keep telling, over and over again, until it feels like it’s the only story we know. It’s a burden that we carry without even reali...
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