#intergenerationalTrauma
Intergenerational trauma is the transmission of trauma from one generation to the next, affecting mental and physical health.
Why Address It?
➡️ Promotes healing
➡️ Improves mental health
➡️ Enhances relationships
➡️ Supports resilience
➡️ Fosters understanding
#RDI #RainbowDiversityInstitute #IntergenerationalTrauma #Equity #Inclusion #Diversity
Friday Feature: 5 Self-Development Books That Heal Like Spells
There are books that teach you how to think—and then there are books that teach you how to feel.
The ones that hold a mirror to your spirit, call you out with love, and whisper, You’ve got this, mija.
These are the books that don’t just sit on your shelf—they live in your bloodstream. They remind you that growth isn’t about perfection; it’s about healing, reclaiming, and remembering your worth.
Today, I’m sharing five self-development books that heal like spells—guides for the mind, body, and soul that help you break cycles, nurture your inner peace, and reconnect with your roots.
1. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
A timeless spiritual guide based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements distills life into four deceptively simple truths:
- Be impeccable with your word.
- Don’t take anything personally.
- Don’t make assumptions.
- Always do your best.
These lessons are the foundation of emotional freedom. Every time I reread this book, I’m reminded how our words—especially the ones we say to ourselves—can either curse or bless our lives.
Why it heals: It helps you unlearn people-pleasing and reclaim your peace.
2. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Healing doesn’t start in the mind—it begins in the body. This groundbreaking book explains how trauma physically embeds itself in our nervous systems and how movement, mindfulness, and connection help release it.
For those of us who grew up in survival mode—always “on,” always bracing—it’s a revelation. It validates the exhaustion you can’t explain and reminds you that you’re not broken; you’re protecting yourself.
Why it heals: Because it reminds you that rest, not productivity, is the real recovery and that even when you forget the body remembers so you might as well come to head with those memories so you can begin to heal.
3. Self-Care for Latinas by Raquel Reichard
This one feels like a warm cafecito with your best friend and abuela rolled into one. Self-Care for Latinas isn’t about bubble baths—it’s about reclaiming joy, setting boundaries, and building a wellness practice rooted in culture and community.
Reichard talks about the cultural pressures that often make self-care feel selfish for Latinas, and she flips that narrative on its head. It’s practical, affirming, and empowering in the most grounded way.
Why it heals: Because it centers you—your culture, your rest, your right to joy.
4. Mamá Didn’t Raise a Pendeja by Sandra Hinojosa Ludwig
This book is the pep talk every recovering good girl needs. Ludwig mixes humor, spiritual insight, and straight-up tough love to help Latinas reconnect with self-worth, intuition, and abundance.
It’s a reminder that generational strength runs deep, but so do generational wounds—and healing both is part of the journey. It’s bold, bilingual, and refreshingly honest.
Why it heals: Because it teaches you how to take up space without guilt and lead with both corazón and boundaries.
5. Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma by Dr. Mariel Buqué
Dr. Buqué’s book is a masterclass in healing from the inside out. She unpacks how family trauma travels across generations and how we can stop carrying pain that isn’t ours.
For me, it connected so much to The Ordinary Bruja’s core theme—how silence and self-doubt pass down like heirlooms until someone decides to end the pattern. Buqué gives practical tools for emotional regulation, ancestral healing, and self-forgiveness.
Why it heals: Because it shows that breaking cycles isn’t betrayal—it’s love in its purest form.
Why These Books Matter
Each of these books offers a different kind of magic:
- The Four Agreements – Spiritual clarity
- The Body Keeps the Score – Emotional embodiment
- Self-Care for Latinas – Cultural grounding
- Mamá Didn’t Raise a Pendeja – Empowered identity
- Break the Cycle – Generational healing
Together, they form a spiritual toolkit for growth—rooted in culture, compassion, and courage.
Final Reflection
Healing isn’t linear. Some days you’ll feel like a warrior; others, like you’re unraveling. That’s okay. Growth is messy, magical, and ongoing.
When I read these books, I don’t just highlight sentences—I highlight truths. They remind me that I come from strength, softness, and resilience. And they remind me that self-development, especially for Latinas, isn’t about becoming new—it’s about remembering who we’ve always been.
So, if you’re looking for books that don’t just speak to your mind but to your spirit, start here.
Each one is a spell for self-love, a prayer for peace, and a guide back to yourself.
#ancestralHealing #culturalEmpowerment #emotionalWellness #intergenerationalTrauma #latineSpirituality #personalGrowth #selfCareForLatinas2 #selfDevelopmentBooks #spiritualHealing
“ Feeding Ghosts #TessaHull won the 2025 #Pulitzer Prize, the second #graphicnovel in history to take the honour (the first was #Maus, another memoir of #intergenerationaltrauma, horrific war, and the American #immigrant experience). “
Feeding Ghosts Review Jul 2 2025
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/02/filial-piety/
Mama, They Got Me Too: My Family Has Survived Incarceration Over Generations
The system has a way of reaching through generations, branding us as criminals when all we’re trying to do is survive.
When Plans Fall Apart Because Your Body Says No
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Book Review: Oye by Melissa Mogollon
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The Healing Power of Storytelling: Imagination as Medicine
#Storytelling #Healing #NarrativePsychiatry #CommunityHealing #ImaginationAsMedicine #IntergenerationalTrauma #SocialNeuroscience #MentalHealthMatters #EmotionalWellbeing #CollectiveWisdom #HealingCircles #MindBodyConnection #CreativeHealing #Neuroscience #WellnessJourney
‘Where The Love Light Gleams (Or: Christmas as Ritualized Trauma)’
'I'll Be Home for Christmas' and similar ballads share a common origin that explains why they're so good at helping us exorcise personal and cultural grief at the holidays.
#christmas #christmasmusic #music #christmas2024 #grief #wwiihistory #history #musichistory #intergenerationaltrauma
https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/where-the-love-light-gleams-or-christmas
https://wickedlizzie.substack.com/p/how-intergenerational-trauma-played
#intergenerationaltrauma
#traumainformed
#peersupport
#scarcitymindset
#DVsurvivor
#CSAsurvivor
#scarcity
#abuse
#control
#patriarchy
#eatthepatriarchy
#capitalismkillsbraincells
#captialismkills
#competition
#wickedlizzie
#essay
#substack
The impact of chronic stress caused by endometriosis. Living in survival mode because of financial precarity= chronic stress
https://www.elanzawellness.com/post/endometriosis-and-stress-what-you-need-to-know
#NativeWithEndometriosis #IntergenerationalTrauma #BiologicalWarfare
#Navy apologizes 142 years after shelling and burning an #Alaska #Native village to oblivion
"'The Navy recognizes the pain and suffering inflicted upon the #Tlingit people,' said the commander of the Navy’s northwest region."
AP, October 28, 2024
"Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months that elders sacrificed their own lives to spare food for surviving children.
"It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years later, the perpetrator of the bombardment — the #USNavy —has apologized.
"Rear Adm. Mark Sucato, the commander of the Navy’s northwest region, issued the apology during an at-times emotional ceremony Saturday, the anniversary of the atrocity.
"'The Navy recognizes the pain and suffering inflicted upon the#TlingitPeople, and we acknowledge these wrongful actions resulted in the loss of life, the loss of resources, the loss of culture, and created and inflicted #IntergenerationalTrauma on these clans,' he said during the ceremony, which was livestreamed from Angoon. 'The Navy takes the significance of this action very, very seriously and knows an apology is long overdue.'
"While the rebuilt Angoon received $90,000 in a settlement with the Department of Interior in 1973, village leaders have for decades sought an apology as well, beginning each yearly remembrance by asking three times, 'Is there anyone here from the Navy to apologize?'
"'You can imagine the generations of people that have died since 1882 that have wondered what had happened, why it happened, and wanted an apology of some sort, because in our minds, we didn’t do anything wrong,' said Daniel Johnson Jr., a tribal head in #Angoon.
"The attack was one of a series of conflicts between the American military and Alaska Natives in the years after the U.S. bought the territory from Russia in 1867. The U.S. Navy issued an apology last month for destroying the nearby village of Kake in 1869, and the Army has indicated that it plans to apologize for shelling Wrangell, also in southeast Alaska, that year, though no date has been set.
"The Navy acknowledges the actions it undertook or ordered in Angoon and #Kake caused deaths, a loss of resources and multigenerational trauma, Navy civilian spokesperson Julianne Leinenveber said in an email prior to the event.
"'An apology is not only warranted, but long overdue,' she said."
#TruthAndReconciliation #LandBack #Genocide #CulturalGenocide #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAlaskans #NativeAlaskanHistory #BurnYourVillageToTheGround #200Blankets
Our Big Sonia Curriculum Guide is a powerful tool for teaching Holocaust Education, Genocide Education, and Anti-Bias Education. It features classroom-ready lessons across five subjects: English Language Arts, Film Literacy, Human Development, Psychology, and Social Studies.
“Try to put love in your heart. Try to help others,” urges Sonia, to those moved by her story. “You will become a different person.” 2/3
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#Repost @scienceandnonduality_
Touching quote for these difficult times. Can our hearts lead us to recognize the humanity in one another?
Watch the film and the accompanying talks by visiting WhereOliveTreesWeep.com
#ceasefirenow #whereolivetreesweep #scienceandnonduality #community #wotw #wisdomoftrauma #documentary #intergenerationaltrauma
Does anyone else with #vocalChordDysfunction know how to be able to breathe again? I haven’t found a specialist yet to help. I know I’m supposed to hum but I can’t even bring myself to do that. I don’t know what to do. I’m taking such deep breaths and I still cant enough air. #panic #panicDisorder #cptsd #intergenerationalTrauma #JewishCheck
July is Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Mental Health Awareness Month, also known as BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month or Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. We’re highlighting educational resources that explore mental health and wellness, with a special focus on films that center BIPOC subjects, stories and points of view. These resources cover important social emotional learning topics and can be great assets to health classes.
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Like all our materials, these resources are free for everyone.
@edutooters #K16 #K12 #Education #Homeschooling #DEI #Diversity #Inclusion #BIPOC #MentalHealth #Psychology #Meditation #Mindfulness #PTSD #Trauma #Resilience #IntergenerationalTrauma #Vipassana #Purpose #PositivePsychology #MentalWellness #Health #SocialEmotionalLearning
#Transcription of my #speech for #deaf folks - as it wasn't provided on vid.
Hi, everyone. Thank you for showing up with #community #solidarity, to call for a #PermanentCeasefire in support of #Palestinians who are suffering #famine & #genocidal violence under #Israeli occupational forces.
My name is Que & I'm a survivor of the #USinvasion #WarOnVietnam. I was a #WarChild conceived & born under active shelling & had #IntergenerationalTrauma pre & post birth.
We were #displaced from our homes & survived in a #RefugeeCamp in Indonesia for a year. We were sponsored to come to Canada in late 1979 as #WarRefugees, seeking #asylum.
My patriarch family lived in #Cholon the #Chinese District in #Saigon & my matriarch family lived in a tiny village near Can Tho near the Hau River in #SouthVietnam. Both sides of my family had already lived through multiple foreign invasions & foreign militarized imperialism & colonialism by the time the US invaded & occupied our lands.
Many of us living Vietnam war civilian survivors can relate so well to the many struggles, the suffering, the violent foreign occupation & also the passionate resilience & resistance of the Palestinian peoples.
Throughout the 1960s into the 1970s both areas that my family lived in were carpet bombed. My Matriarch family village was bombed out of existence by 1970. The rebuilding took 18 years. Cholon was #CarpetBombed twice & the scenes from those aftermaths are eerily similar to the scenes from #Gaza after #Israel carpet bombed the area.
The #USmilitary used #Vietnamese #civilians as involuntary guinea pigs. They tested out never used before #WarMunitions including #biochemical warfare like #AgentOrange & #NerveGasBombs on our peoples.
Our peoples, our lands, our waters - still suffer the toxic & deadly effects from the illegal - illegal #biowarfare chemical uses by the #USA to this day & our peoples & especially our children are still suffering from the many leftover war munitions, exploding, maiming & killing innocent civilians.
Israel is treating the Palestinian peoples very much like the USA had treated our Vietnamese peoples. Like we are not human. We do not deserve to live. The dehumanization of Palestinians is too similar to how the USA dehumanized our Vietnamese peoples. We're savages. We are vermin. We're stupid tunnel rats. We're gooks & we deserve to die.
The USA bombed our #schools, our #hospitals, our #temples, our #ResidentialAreas - just like Israel has bombed schools, hospitals, temples & residential areas in Palestine. The USA has more powerful weapons of mass destruction while fighting resistance forces with much less firepower. The Vietnamese #ResistanceForces also used #TunnelSystems & some of them are now part of an #educational #LivingMuseum.
Vietnam is now #SovereignNation because the occupational militarized US forces left which opened up our path to #DiplomaticNegotiations. Palestinians deserve their true path to diplomatic Solutions too. They deserve a sovereign state. That can not happen without a permanent - not a temporary - a permanent ceasefire - an end to #IllegalOccupation by Israel.
You cannot occupy & oppress a people & claim you are a #democracy. True #Democratic states do not occupy & oppress people for decades. True Democratic states do not jail, murder & deny #PressFreedom to #journalists. True democratic states do not arrest, vilify, nor illegally detain their own citizens with dissenting voices. True democratic states don't continue to violate multiple #InternationalLaws so openly & so disrespectfully.
Israel has become too #arrogant that's mainly due to the Western powers like the USA & #Canada continuing to put their #WarProfiteer interests over #humanitarian & global #PublicInterests.
At a time when we need an arms embargo on Israel, the US & Canada sent billions more in war munitions & funding to Israel. It is shameful.
Our politicians tell us there's not enough money to fund more essential health & medical service needs. There's not enough money to increase the pay scale of essential medical staff. There's not enough money to fund environmental protection & cleanups. There's not enough to help our seniors & disabled not live in poverty anxiety. There's not enough to fund safer, more inclusive, accessible education. There's not enough to provide more low income & some more support of housing for our most marginalized citizens. These are all citizen needs that our governments have told they cannot afford to fully fund but they can find billions to fund ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. That is not okay & that is not in our public interest.
I urge everyone here to please keep contacting all of your local provincial & federal representatives in every way possible & ask them to please push Trudeau to call for both a permanent ceasefire & to initiate an arms embargo on Israel - NOW.
Please keep having the conversations with people you know & people you don't know about Palestine. The conversations are important. Please keep standing in solidarity with Gaza & all Palestinians.
The antidote to despair is action. This here is humanity in action & I thank all of you for showing your humanity & your ongoing support of Palestinians because remember, no democracy can exist without the freedom of citizens dissenting voices and I appreciate all of your voices dissenting, against our government who is still supporting genocide.
Free Palestine!
#intergenerationaltrauma #mazeldon
This was posted by Willie Handler on "the hell-site of not birds anymore" today.
It was a snippet of an interview about the intergenerational trauma of descendants of Holocaust survivors.
"So every Saturday, I was required to go to my grandparent's house, and other relatives would come over for coffee and cake. All they were talking about was the war. Even if they were talking about other things, eventually, they would start talking about Hitler. If you were to ask questions, you would get your answers. But I was afraid to ask questions because I didn't want to hurt anybody's feelings."
- JH
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