Marin Denning joined Lake Effect's Joy Powers to discuss intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities ahead of his talk at UWM's Trauma in Our Community Conference. On Tuesday, UW-Milwaukee’s ...

International Indigenous Policy Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2 (April 2016), pp. 1-35 (37 pages) Background: As with many Indigenous groups around the world, Aboriginal communities in Canada face significant ...

Intergenerational trauma refers to the apparent transmission of trauma between generations of a family. People who experienced adverse childhood experiences growing up, or who survived historical ...

Claire: "Dadirri. This is the Aboriginal way... We are at home in silence... We are not afraid of it... As Aborigines, we have learned from the earliest times... to ...

Intergenerational trauma occurs when multiple generations of a family feel the effects of past traumatic events. These effects can be emotional or physical. Traumatic events can influence a person’s ...

Andrew Kim’s mind raced as he entered the sprawling South African hospital. It was 2017, and Kim, at the time a Northwestern University biological anthropology graduate student, was researching how a ...

International Indigenous Policy Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2 (April 2021), pp. 1-24 (26 pages) Contemporary Indigenous mental health research is beginning to address colonization, contextualizing ...

Woven throughout most of this newsletter is the understanding that our past informs our present. It shows up in the choices we make, our relationships, our work. No corner of our lives goes untouched ...

As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.

Intergenerational trauma is where the psychological effects of painful events are passed on in families. A psychotherapist shared five signs you might be experiencing intergenerational trauma.

An unexpected personal loss was the catalyst for Laura Jones to explore how her grief could be connected to traumatic events that happened before she was even born. The 23-year-old does not like to ...