Takeaways:
- Epigenetics: Trauma and stress are transmitted through cells across generations.
- Ancestral recovery is practiced by starting with what we know, searching historical records, military records, and birth records, exploring legends, myths, and folkore, explroing the history of the land, and exploring the stories.
- This trauma stays because there is a lot of feelings supression. We can teach our students to be "cycle breakers" and start the healing in thei family.
There are traumas that sometimes we do not even realize that they have been passed to us by our relatives. That is why it is important to be conscious about it, research about our family's past, and if we find a pattern or a trauma, we need to something about it. Once we are aware with that, we can work on that for us and help others. In our case as teachers, we can incorporate activities where our students research about their family's past, so they can be aware as well.
Activity in class:
Ask students to draw a circle and inside the circle how they feel with their immediate family, the next circle to draw how they feel with the place they live, in the third circle draw about their connection with their grandparents, and in the last circle, draw about their connection or knowledge about their familiy's past.
Wallace, K. (2021). Intergenerational Trauma [pdf].
Took Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your LGBTQ Books? (see on section "Tests and Quizzes")
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