Category: Generational Trauma
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They will look at your last name, check the family history, and you won’t get the job. When my aunt applied for a position at an agricultural extension office in the early 1970s, my grandfather warned her: “They will look at your last name, check the family history, and you won’t get the job.” His words were…
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Grief, I have come to believe, is one of the trickiest terrains most of us will eventually have to negotiate. Like most painful experiences, we do our best to avoid mourning our losses. We try to define grief, to mold it into our human illusions of an orderly and comprehensible world. We come up with…
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Something that continues to be true about the work that I do is that piecing together the forgotten or lost history within our families is a powerful aspect of healing our wounds. We carry a lot of weight on our shoulders in this life. We feel responsible for things that do not belong to us,…