Perspectives

Why having different part of ourselves does not mean we are broken. Imagine walking through a house you have lived in for years and discovering that it contains more rooms than you remembered. Some are bright and orderly. One is prepared for company, with the pillows arranged and everything in its proper place. Another holds unfinished projects, old photographs, and boxes you have been meaning to sort through for approximately half your natural life. There may be a room where

by Janet Nash, MSW, LISW-S, Certified Yoga Therapist, CCTP Generational trauma is not always dramatic from the outside. Sometimes it does not look like police at the door, an explosive family rupture, or one clearly identifiable event everyone can point to and say, “That was when everything changed.” It may look like a family that functions, works hard, keeps going, pays the bills, celebrates holidays, and appears “fine” to everyone around them. But behind the façade of ordin