2026-03-27
7 分钟Hi, my name is Lewis Howes, and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show.
What 's the difference between the traumas that happened to us
and the generational trauma that happened to our ancestors?
So the major difference is placed in biology.
So there's a genetic component to intergenerational trauma.
And so intergenerational trauma has this way in which there is a genetic transmission that happens from parent to child.
Really?
And so it creates a predisposition to vulnerability to stress.
Give me an example.
What's a common example you see in your practice that is a generational story?
Well, I mean, you know, there are people that will come in and say,
you know, ever since I was a child, it was like difficult to soothe.
And I was, you know, I had.
Like this hyperactivity, there 's a lot of trauma survivors that also like believe that their symptoms coincide with ADHD
because there 's a lot of overlap in the experience and in the symptomatology.
So there's a lot of that.
There 's like people that, you know, reflect back to their childhood and they say like,
I 've always had like this experience that felt like I was always anxious.
When we dig into the layers and we dig deep, we start noticing, okay.
Especially because I do a lot of like family tree work and like really going down the lineage to know like,