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7 Generations of Your Family's Trauma Could Be Living In Your Body!?

12 Jan 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief conversation, Lewis AI and Speaker A discuss the concept that trauma can be transmitted across many generations, citing research that suggests a span of roughly seven to fourteen generations—about 300 years—equating to roughly 255 direct ancestral histories embedded within an individual. They emphasize that while talk therapies can address some aspects of trauma, they may be insufficient for deeply layered, body‑stored trauma that originates far back in a family’s lineage. The dialogue conveys surprise and urgency about the magnitude of inherited trauma and the need to break the cycle.

How far back do these traumas linked to? Is it like grandparents or?
They say it's an approximate seven generations. Seven?
Oh my gosh.
And there's a possibility that it might be 14 based on some newer studies.
Until you break the cycle, it goes back seven to 14 generations.
Yeah.
All the traumas of my, you know, from like 300 years ago then, are passed down to me.
It's said that it's about 255 direct histories, including your own living in you.
Oh my gosh.
Which is why this- Seems overwhelming. I know, I know. why it's so critical that because it is transferable messaging that is there in our body, it's important that we go back to the body. That's why when we do these talk therapies, they can be good for an extent the work that needs to be done, right? But not necessarily for when we're talking about layer trauma.