Breaking Generational Trauma: Expert Shares Tips On How To Unload The Age-Old Baggage

Childhood is the most glorious period of our lives with colourful experiences, innocent friendships, and a carefree outlook towards life. Children are believed to be the happiest as they can smile for no reason and any reason at all, and worries do not touch them. However, not every child is brought up in similar ways. 

What Is Generational Trauma? 

We all know that the people we are today have a lot to do with how our parents raised us. Apart from their values, morals, skills, etc., even their traumas and insecurities are passed down to us. Generational trauma (Bad Parenting Habits) is referred to as the traumatic events and their responses that pass on from one generation to another. This can be seen based on sexual violence, gender oppression, communal bias, poor management of personal emotions, etc.  

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How To Break The Generational Trauma Chain?

Generational trauma is a chain that never ends until one of the sufferers decides to end it. It is important to gain consciousness about how this can affect not only the sufferer but also the generations to come by. 

To know more about the phenomenon and how to break the chain, we spoke with counselling psychology expert Atreyee Das who shared these useful steps with us. 

• Declutter: It is essential to let your suppressed emotions out in the wild and accept that you are feeling a certain way.
• Origin Of Emotions: You need to identify the origin of your emotions and behavioural patterns, if they are something you have caught from your parents, it is a generational trauma. Try to analyse the base of the trauma and why it exists.
• Identify Your Reaction: You must examine the root cause of your reaction to a certain traumatic event. 
• Assessment: Identify if your trauma reaction is valid or threatening even in today’s era as it was in the past.
• Acceptance: Address the trauma response, seek professional help, if needed, or share it with someone you trust. Open communication (Courses For Communication Development) about your emotions can only be a byproduct of your acceptance towards it, therefore, ensure that you do the needful. 

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Breaking the generational trauma can free you from heavy baggage that you have been passed on by previous generations resulting in you feeling lighter. If you liked this story, stay tuned to HerZindagi for more!

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