Contagion in the Collective Subconscious Should be Your Real Fear
Whether it’s family members whose past includes the holocaust, an attack or terror campaign, being near the World Trade Center, near genocide in Rwanda, or any other any traumatic event…
Generational trauma is real.
Rachel Yehuda is the Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She’s discovered that “epigenetic changes biologically prepare us to cope with the traumas that our parents experienced.” This is a double-edged sword that (mainly) can hurt us.
Here’s how, “In an August 2015 study published in Biological Psychiatry, Yehuda and her team at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital demonstrated that gene changes could be transmitted from parents to children.”
Specifically, she’s found that children of mothers with PTSD are three times more likely to be diagnosed with PTSD than children in her control groups. Also, children of survivors are three to four times more likely to struggle with depression and anxiety or engage more in substance abuse, when either parent suffered from PTSD.
Your family’s genes and collective consciousness is with you whether you like it or not. The challenging part is getting the most accurate information you can. You’re not just walking through a graveyard looking for ghosts, you’re walking through a minefield of emotions. Be careful, but don’t be too afraid to chart a safe course and then explore.
For those familiar with PTSD and intergenerational trauma, William Faulkner’s cautions ring true…
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
Until you put the bad parts of the past to rest with therapy and medicine. 😉
Tomorrow we’ll talk about looking for cycles of traumas from the past in our own lives.
– Chad Grills, Mission Founder and CEO
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Joining us today on Mission Daily is Gay Gaddis, Founder of T3.
Gay started T3 using $16,000 taken out of her IRA during a downturn in the economy. It was a big risk, but thirty years later, it’s one that has paid off several-fold. Today, T3 is helping clients build useful brands that reach consumers around the world.
Chad and Gay talk about:
- The importance of being an early adopter of tech and how this gave T3 an edge working with Dell
- The future of marketing, original content, and product placement
- Personal brands and new forms of media
- The business climate in Texas
- Some of the business moves Gay had to make to keep T3 lean in recessions
- How she avoids vision-diluting partnerships
- And much more!
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