Have you ever wondered why your family functions the way it does? Or why certain behaviors are accepted while others are frowned upon? Perhaps there’s a double standard, where some actions are allowed ...

We know now that newborns don’t enter into the world with a clean slate. Their emotional history begins even before they are conceived. All the eggs a woman will carry form in her ovaries while she is ...

There is a lot being written these days on post-traumatic growth (PTG) and resilience. As a trauma therapist and scholar on trauma responses, I follow these with Google alerts and at least once a week ...

The idea that trauma can echo across generations was once considered symbolic or psychological. Today, it is increasingly ...

A panel of experts will discuss trauma that can harm generations of people this month at the University of Colorado Boulder. The College of Arts and Sciences event, titled “A Conversation About ...

Trauma is an experience so harrowing that it can alter our gene expression — and in some cases, these changes can be passed down to future generations. But if the traumas experienced by our parents, ...

Generational trauma occurs when parents unintentionally pass their trauma down to their kids. Generational trauma can affect multiple generations over the course of hundreds of years. Learning to ...

Editor's note: The following first-person accounts of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre contain graphic depictions and antiquated racial terminology. We have chosen not to edit these survivor accounts to ...

A study by the World Health Organization (WHO) states that more than 70% of people will experience a traumatic event at some point in life, and to be honest, we’re surprised that number isn’t higher.

Trauma surrounds us. Perhaps you recall the abduction in April 2014 of 276 schoolgirls from a government secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria. Or Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children. Or the ...