Love this Lucy, especially your reflections on war memories and trauma. This is a subject close to my heart, as both sides of my ancestral line were deeply affected by WWII - including my grandfather who came back from the frontlines of Europe, never speaking what he had witnessed, but drinking presumably to numb it all out. I strongly feel how this trauma lives on in my family line and inside my own body to this day - and how it informs my passion for trauma healing in my work.
Yes generation after generation, it passes down. I think even the Irish famine years, has passed down to me. When I’m hungry If for any reason I’m unable to eat, my whole body goes into panic. I used to do gardening work with someone who could work through lunch, or would offer me a croissant, I just couldn’t do it, never could explain myself to her, because it wasn’t her experience. I lived with CPTSD for decades, finally cured, but the inter generational stuff, that seems to stick around, like you say, in the body.
Yes, the intergenerational stuff is harder to heal, I think because it's harder to access - there's no narrative memory we can work through and process. Though I do believe all the healing work we do travels backwards and forwards through the family line, as well as rippling out into the world around us.
Thanks Lucy, that calmed my mind and I needed that today.
Loved the description of your friend's party and times with your grandad 💜
Awww thanks lovely May 🙏🏽 Hope Spain is treating you well 🌻
Love this Lucy, especially your reflections on war memories and trauma. This is a subject close to my heart, as both sides of my ancestral line were deeply affected by WWII - including my grandfather who came back from the frontlines of Europe, never speaking what he had witnessed, but drinking presumably to numb it all out. I strongly feel how this trauma lives on in my family line and inside my own body to this day - and how it informs my passion for trauma healing in my work.
Yes generation after generation, it passes down. I think even the Irish famine years, has passed down to me. When I’m hungry If for any reason I’m unable to eat, my whole body goes into panic. I used to do gardening work with someone who could work through lunch, or would offer me a croissant, I just couldn’t do it, never could explain myself to her, because it wasn’t her experience. I lived with CPTSD for decades, finally cured, but the inter generational stuff, that seems to stick around, like you say, in the body.
Yes, the intergenerational stuff is harder to heal, I think because it's harder to access - there's no narrative memory we can work through and process. Though I do believe all the healing work we do travels backwards and forwards through the family line, as well as rippling out into the world around us.
Me too 🙏🏽
Beautiful
Thank you, Amber 🙏🏽
Such a beautiful, tender share, Lucy. ❤️
Thank you, Dana 🙏🏽🌻