Our life experiences may be passed on to our children and our  children’s children through our genes. The open question is, can we  make a difference? Will healing our own traumas prevent them being  delivered at the baby carriage of our grandchildren? Scientists are now  revealing that they have discovered how this genetic inheritance can be  turned on or off. The good news: healing personal trauma will make a  huge difference to future generations.

According to epigenetics—the study of inheritable changes in gene  expression not directly coded in our DNA—our life experiences may be  passed on to our children and our children’s children. Studies on  survivors of traumatic events have suggested that exposure to stress may  indeed have lasting effects on subsequent generations. But how exactly  are these genetic “memories” passed on?

Lecture

How trauam is created 

level of somatic impact of trauma 

the body on trauma