Intergenerational Trauma: Native American’s Inherited Legacy

Belinda P. Eriacho, M.P.H., is from the Dine’ (Navajo) and Zuni Pueblo lineages. Belinda was born and raised on the Navajo reservation. Her presentation will provide an overview on Native American intergenerational trauma. She will address the following critical questions: What is Intergenerational trauma? What are its effects? What is epigenetics telling us? She will also discuss considerations for healing and for working with Native American individuals and communities for practitioners. "Healing will take generations. We need to build on the healing that has begun. We are the ancestors of the next seven generations," explains Eriacho.
Psychedelic Medicine & Cultural Trauma Workshop in Kentucky (August 10-11, 2019)
maps.org/kentucky
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
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[@margogross421]

Thank you for a great presentation, taught me about the multi-generational gifts and knowledge that sadly, we all grieve, Nature grieves...

[@sarahloffler]

Thank you for explaining this so well. Very well thought-out and eloquently presented. Hopefully more outreach happens as a result of your presentation. Ahéheeʼ nitsaago!

[@lcarthel]

Thank you for CORRECTING history! Empathy for all!

[@HakuCell]

here's a typical sequence:
one generation is abused, conditioned, indoctrinated, exploited > their children will go through similar experience in such society and will also feel unfelt, disconnected, misunderstood with parents and others. everyone learns to hide and swallow pain, to not cry, to not grieve, because the psycho-socio-cultural environment is always unsafe. we need both knowledge, true explanatory knowledge [watch?v=fh5KLfd9Km8] in order to understand what happened to us, to understand our state and that of others, and that will favor authenticity, reconnection to ourselves and others. otherwise there is such disconnection and non-presence, it will make everyone depressed and miserable, full of various symptoms, lack of meaning, stress... because we're disconnected from ourselves and from one another.
the dominant culture of forced positivity and of not showing pain is absolutely unnatural and dangerous. we need to understand, we need to know, and we need to feel (outselves and together). knowledge can guide us to stop and bring awareness to suffering that needs to be understood /explained /acknowledged.. so that we can heal and reconnect.. feel meaning again
watch?v=gvwHHMEDdT0 < this black leopard allegedly "stopped in her tracks", as said in the video, as she felt understood and seen.. truth is transformative